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All I can say is come winter time, when the long, busy, outdoor days of summer are long gone, all of you who got out today will be incredibly board.:wink:

Hehe haven't you noticed? Thats when they all get back into the hobby :wink:

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Where's the logic in those economics?:mrgreen:

For the past 3 years I have felt like shutting down around this time of year. Thank god I give my head a shake and come around.

It is hard to take vacations with a reef tank at home.

A few weeks ago my house-sitter e-mailed me, there were lots of bubbles in the tank and the return pump was making a noise.

I was able to trouble-shoot it over the e-mail and the auto-topoff had failed, the house-sitter added some water and everything was fine. But a little problem like that could wipe out the whole tank.

When we went to Keremeos & the Okanagan for 4 days this summer, I had my wife's cousin tank-sit for us. Thank goodness he did a good job, although I did lose some pipefish, but that was not his fault. It does seem so risky to plan to go for much longer than a few days with so many tanks (up to 560+ gallons of sw & fw tanks).

Most of the time, when newbies ask me about starting a sw tank, I ask them point blank whether they like having money in the bank because this hobby is a killer on the old bank account.

Anthony

Luckily my husband was in to mudbog racing for awhile, it makes my hobby seem cheap in comparison :lol:

Well since I am one of the " Albertans " that is shutting down a tank maybe I can shed some light here from my perspective.

My intention was to go " larger " not shut down the tank ... however Mitch at IA once again did NOT come through as he promised and I missed a window of opportunity to build the big tank while I had some time off :sad: ... he promised a 2 week delivery back in March and still had not even cut the glass 10 weeks later ... I was off the whole month of May ( I wanted to build the tank in that month ... get it plumbed and running 100% ) and when I did not have the glass at the end of May it was pointless ... wanted a refund because he was so late and he told me to pound sand :mad: ...

moral of the story ...

always pay with Visa as they will backcharge retailers that are completely incompetent like Mitch at IA is :rolleyes:

The tank I have setup now is not as automated as my old 330G and I really did not spend the time to automate it because the intention was to go bigger

Because there is no tank to transfer everything into I now have to sell it all so that I can develop the space it is occupying in my basement ... once that is done this winter I will then be on the hunt for more 3/4" glass to build the big tank once again.

I will still have my dual beckett skimmer, calcium reactor, MH & VHO lights etc to drop onto the new tank

So if anyone knows where to reliably and honestly get 3/4" glass please let me know ( front must be starphire in that size )

end rant :lol:

After today and the previous jumping fish, I am considering leaving the hobby. The tank gets too hot in the summer which I think is why my fish are jumping. I am working too hard/too much to keep the tank running stable and successfully and I am seeing barely any desirable results. See my recent post in the Reef forum. I don't think my tank is meant for summer weather, and if that's the case I'll have to say goodbye to saltwater.. it's taking too much of a toll on me and my wallet.

Yeah if I had a cover they'd most likely be alive.. I know. Covers other than egg crate just seem to lead to more problems and egg crate is quite the eye sore. I dunno, frustration is building up .

You know what they say:

"If you wanna drive a Ferrari, you better be able to pay for a Ferrari."