Take it from a parent who has adult kids at home...they drive you nuts and they KNOW what they are doin:mrgreen:


Yes that's my plan!!

no my mother is straight up crazy. she creates drama just everyone in the house would pay attention to her, and only her.

She can teach me afew things then.

Haha, I think the older you get and the longer you stay at home, the crazier your parents get. I bought a house with my ex and that didn't quite work out so I'm back at home again (parents weren't super thrilled about all the tanks), but they're still just as crazy as the day I moved out a couple years ago. Now, if I'm in the basement (were my room and tanks are) for more than a few hours, my mom comes and checks on me to see if "the fish got me" (I have a stone fish)

If your parents started to walk around the house naked, would that be crazy enough to get you guys to move out? Just askin:question:

2 please.

Umm, I'm usually not home or in the basement, and my mom really only comes down there once in a while. The thing you have to figure out before you start that war is, how far will your kids go and how far are you willing to go? Have you ever seen war of the roses? Haha

My parents don't want me to move out. Their house has a walk out basement. I go in and out as I please

-Start a nano or a pico tank
-Try your hand at breeding fish
-Try new supplements and see how they affect growth and color
-Change your lighting
-Add some LEDs to supplement your lighting
-Upgrade to a light fixture that allows you to play with colors
-Start a frag tank and propagate some corals
-Design and build a tank you've never seen before
-Try new fish foods
-Upgrade your equipment
-Re-aquascape your tank
-Add a refugium
-Add gobies....always room for more gobies
-Add shrimp and nano-inverts...always room for those too
-Upgrade your tank size
-Start a jellyfish tank
-Start a cephalopod tank
-Breed cephalopods
-Grow live foods
-Start a NPS coral tank
-Buy a camera and learn to take great photos of your reef
-Take a bonsai approach to growing your corals
-Fill empty space with zoanthids
-Switch up your fish collection
-Start a small coral greenhouse
-Buy a bigger tank!

-Start a seahorse tank
-Breed seahorses
-Start a species tank for a mantis shrimp
-Keep a frogfish
-Automate your system
-Clean up and label your wiring
-Special order something bizarre. Keep it, study it, write about it.
-Experiment and try to find solutions for common pests. (Find out how to kill this stuff and I'll make it worth your while)
-Develop new reefkeeping techniques and share them

Yes.

get a job out of town so then its always fun to come home and see how things are doing.

If you're older than 18 and aren't going to school you shouldn't live with your parents.

+100.

If you can afford this hobby you can afford to move out

I work and save money while living with my parents. I'm building my career. So when I move out I can put down 25% on a house and don't have to live from pay cheque to pay cheque while eating KD every night

I also like driving nice cars and I like being able to pay cash for them

I'll take my dodge, MY house and eat KD. If it means not living under someone elses roof

I'm sure your parents love that you can afford a nice car while living under their roof.

I left home the day after high school. My life had been awesome and independent. Have a nice house drive a new BMW. Wouldn't change a thing.

I always thought nice cars and other things come after building a career not before. I've also seen pics of your car, more than enough "cash" there for down-payment which only needs to be 5% not 25%, which btw actually seems like an odd number seeing how 20% is all that required to avoid mortgage Canada, obviously little thought been put into this. Seems more like mooching to me but that's just an observation from someone that managed to build a good career on his own by saving and going to school while paying something called rent. I got a brother in law in the same spot as you, could rent but considers it a waste of money so he's "saving" while driving a brand new infinity. He's also under the illusion his folks want him to stay, they don't. Any parents that actually would are bad parents IMO and need to learn to let go.

:idea: If you're so bored get a job while you wait for this "career" to blossom, pick up a news paper and find a place you can actually call your own. Maybe then you'd appreciate the tank more and not find it so boring.

wow.....sudden hostility because the guy lives at home. Although it wasn't my route in life I'm not so quick to judge and give advice when not asked.

This is a fish forum ppl and it was a fish tank question.....why get so personal?

Cause it's annoying seeing someones priorities so out of whack, and to be fair my advice should help his tank boredom problem.

lol i have a good job. and a good business.

my parents are old school european. they do like having me here. They dont speak or write very well in english and im a great asset to them in the house.

I graduated university less than 2 years ago. all which i paid for myself.

the only thing i dont pay for is rent. as per my parents advice; its better to save it and put it towards something that i'll actually own

Yeah. Well said.

maybe you guys are just bitter cuz your parents kicked you out at 18 and you had it hard.

LOL we left, it's called growing up. Life's short Marko, don't miss it.

I'm living plenty.

No career, no house, no wife, no kids. Your life hasn't even begun yet :cry:

My wife's brother is fifty something and still lives at home. God help you when you are in the same boat in thirty odd years...don't laugh you might end up there...

So be it, at least I would have tried.

Hey if I had the opportunity I may have done it this way. But I need my independence.

Each to there own as I could see your point on there barrier on english

I was referencing your call to Marko to live life....and for him the avoid regretting living at home for all those years..I'm sure my brother in law does.

I have started a career, and have a successful business.
no wife, but a girlfriend.
no kids

I work 5 days a week for telus.
shoot weddings on saturdays. engagement and lifestyle shoots on sundays
during the NHL season i shoot every Oilers home game.

so basically "living" at home means "sleeping" at home

sticking with the thread topic i haveenet gotten bored yet .. built 3 tanks since i started in 2009... whats in store for next year lol... wife will kill me

Or kick you out which may force you to move home....lol...Just kidding:lol:

I can't relate to this.

My word of advice is that if it's not "interesting or fun" then maybe it's time to ask yourself why are you keeping at it? Maybe some introspective will help you discover something - be it a reason to keep going - or be it a reason to take a break from the hobby.

If you require that the hobby find a way to entertain you then you might have a bit of an entitlement issue. It's what you make of it. The day that I feel that it's no longer in my livestock's better interests to remain in my care will be the day I "retire" or take a break.

There are ups and downs like any long term activity. Over the years I've had to scale back, I've also built up, there is an ebb and a flow but I can honestly say I've never lost interest in things. That's a rather brutal thing to say. I'm sure you didn't mean it as how it comes across. If you did really mean it that way then maybe it IS time to toss the towel but if you find yourself resisting the notion to quit then maybe that's telling you it's not so uninteresting after all.

I hope you find your groove.

I still enjoy my tank and do daily mainance on it.

I still love it, I just feel like im in a rut. The design aspect and stocking aspect are more or less done.

I think what I'm gonna do is start replacing my livestock with rarer fish. So instead of a blue hippo tang, I'd like to get an Achilles.

Suddenly this explains a lot.......guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Have to admit a part of me thinks you started this thread just to see what others would say and to stir things up a bit.

at some point in tme you had to be excited about it go back to what that was or branch off from there again:)

How am I stiring up drama? I made this thread to see if anyone else feels the same. There was no intent to argue or create drama.

But it looks like your post had intent to do just that

i will live in your garage looks cozy in there

I know what you are saying, I find it hard to be happy just sitting and watching my tank. I need to find "that" next coral. A person can only upgrade in tank size so much. Building a tank to a persons expectations be it livestock or size is what interests me, once I get there just watching it gets tiring fast..

My 19 year old is going to end up there if he doesn't stop coming in at 2:30 am on week nights ....Hey maybe he should move out!!! lol