Signs of fish keeping fatigue...

[hmt321]

I currently have 3 tanks in 2 different places

125 gal at the office
75 gal home
40 gal home

I have a room next to the lobby at the office where i age water, i can do all my tank maintenance in about 30 min (the 125 gal is high tech planted)

at home i have a water aging barrel, that i fill up usually on thurs and i do it over the weekend or Monday night.

I will be building a house in the near future, and i will have a "fish" room in the basement (or under the house, the lot is on a hill) I plan on setting up a large holding tank to age water in and plumb water lines straight to my tanks, changing water will be as easy as turning a few valves.

I have set the hobby down 2 separate times over the last 10 years or so because i was doing w/c with buckets or garden hose siphon and it was to much work. the "python" cuts my w/c time down big time, when maintenance is easy it gets done on a more frequent basis.

my 2 cents

 

[aquanaut]

Oddball 3k worth of water?!? Damn

Never burnt out... then I have only 3 tanks at the moment... though a fourth may be coming. Not as hardcore as some here. Never had more than 6 and four of those were 20l I got from a house cleanout after a fire. When I have stopped there was always something else... Reptiles mostly. Always wanted the kids to have all kinds of pets. And we have kept alot expect spiders... wife said "Spiders! I am leaving." well I wasn`t watching the kids all the time soooo...

 

[fishnutham]

I had so many tanks and vivariums it was so crazy keeping up i'm enjoying my break ... My next house will have a large pond and a nice size tank and thats it!
no more stacking using tanks as wall dividers lol i had a work bench for a feeding table and it was full of foods and my freezer full of mice ,rats sea food and no human food (no room)lol..

 

[carolinafishkeeper]

with all this talk about "fish fatigue" if anyone desides to leave the hobby for awhile....i'll glady take the load off of your shoulders , that's what friends are for

 

[redtailfool]

I would agree with that as well. It's really hard if you have the drive in this hobby not to overextend yourself thinking you need every fish you think it cool.

A while ago I had 5-6 tanks and even that was too much for me so I cut down and started giving stuff away just to get rid of it.

Keeping fish has to be fun... its so obvious , there were many times where i forgot about that all important line. 2-3 Tanks right now is the magic number for me.

 

[TheBloodyIrish]

When you find yourself in a petkeeping fatique, then that is a sign that you should look for ways to automate things.

 

[AnDr3w]

I no how to fix this!! Denitrator!

 

[smmfish]

Over the last couple of years I have gone down from 6 tanks to 3 tanks running at the moment. I just got done moving all the small community fish from the 2 55's into one tank and am using the other 55 for my ball python with lots of hides, branches, and greenery.
I work full time, have a young boy that takes up most of my time.

 

[spoofsjsc]

I once took a loong break. 2-3 yrs. before that i had 2 75g's and a 10g grow-out. I had to re-introduce myself to the hobby. This meant correcting the wrong things that led me to cool off like overstressing and mis-understanding a lot of basic principles. started again with the old 10g (the 75's got broken during the break) and ONE fish. Now I'm back to big tanks.

i enjoy DIY's almost as much as keeping fish. These ideas can help other fishkeepers who are thinking of laying back from the hobby because of the expenses.

 

[Honda12]

I kind of got burnt out a couple years ago, I got rid of 13 tanks and just kept a 90 going, then I upgraded to a 180 and got rid of the 90 and that brought the spark back.

But recently in January my uncle passed away, and he got my into fish keeping, and I just couldn't deal with it so I got rid of my tank and currently have no fish.

I do though have a 9000gl pond and an 800gl tank I take care of now for my aunt. So I still have fish.