[Delphinus]

I find I talk myself out of it very often for the same reasons.

There are times I think "Oh, wouldn't it be nice if ...." but and then get a little disappointed when talk myself out of it (because seeing the pecking order get reinforced is, quite frankly, not all that fun or enjoyable .. and sometimes somebody doesn't make it out of that period at all, which makes it even worse). Sometimes I take the plunge, sometimes not.

Of course now it's even harder to justify new purchases because I have some long term fish that I think wow it would be such a shame to lose them to something I introduced because I don't really have the capacity to do a proper QT. At this stage that's pretty much my reason for not rushing out and buying new fish, until I can do a proper QT it's a non-starter..