The horse no one can ride......
 

What a hobby! the expense, the time, the investment, the disappointment. About five years I have been at this saltwater game and it started innocent enough. I won the door prize at the local fish clubs semi annual fish auction, awesome a 160 litre bow front tank, stand lights everything I needed to get me feet wet in saltwater. Fast forward five years, I'm not going to bore you with the trials and tribulations inbetween but I will say I wish I never bought that ticket five years earlier. No one and I mean no one gets through this hobby unscathed, even the most grizzled veterans and smartest minds have tales of torment, disappointment and great losses. No one can ride this horse for long without falling off, no one can ride this horse into the sunset smiling. One thing is for sure at the end everything in your tank will be gone. Dead, sold, given away,some just vanishes into thin air. When ever I see a newbie introduce themselves to the board they get tons of welcomes and encouragement..... I want to tell them to sell everything now and cut their losses :lol:

That being said I still plod along, not with the same intensity in finding the best corals I can and have come to cross roads. Standing there, I wonder will the next big disappoint be my last...... Likely not, the thought of staring at an empty tank seems harder than moving forward trying to find the tanks sweet spot again even though I know when it's found it won't be found for long.

Chin up. Have a good evening.

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You good sir needs to have the best cookie in market :mrgreen:

When someone says "go big" and claims bigger tanks are easier to take care of, I silently give a "poor you" air-tap on the shoulder of the one who takes that advice pill. :redface:

I think, before I think too hard, that for now I'll just get back on that damn horse and ride a little while longer....

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That's me
I just keep hangin' on, stupidly attached to my regimen of maintenance and battling the baddies, hoping that one day it will again look nice and my corals will thrive once more

Isn't it a fun hobby ?
Kinda reminds me of the Tom Hanks movie The Money Pit

Yup that damn horse just will not stop ... It really annoys me on some days...ok every day but there I am riding it still...it begs the question who is more stubborn?

I just don't think of what it costs to feed the horse and I am ok:lol:

So what you guys are saying is this new build is not going to be my horse that I ride into the sunset with . . .

This is my take on these horses.
Been riding mine for over 20 years :biggrin:
http://www.ridemagazine.com/images/horse_bite.jpg

Very wild horse , very easy, but still very hard to tame the horse.
Gets worse the more you try new innovative things even though the horse is getting easier to ride.
Like any other wild and unpredictable animal.
Keep it simple and you will gain a friend for life riding together.

http://www.horsebreedsinfo.com/images/horse-hug.jpg