Leaving hobby???

[danny zubot]

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.

[christyf5]

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

[danny zubot]

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

Where's the logic in those economics?

[Joe Reefer]

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.

[trilinearmipmap]

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.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

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

[marie]

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