Ever get bored?

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Dez

Does any of you ever get bored of your aquarium? I don't know if it's just because it's summer and I have so many other things to do.

Just wondering if it's just me.

nope not you at all. after what 7 years of running my 90, I decied I would do a custome tanks and tor it down sold everything and then because I was going to move put the new tank on hold. now almost 2 years later I think back at it and I was board for the last 3 years of running the tank.

I have no regreat to shutting it down and if I am being quite honest I don't think at this point that I have any desire to set up the new tank. I don't miss the maintanence, the worry if you go away, the pain in the ass events when something goes wrong or the money throwen down the drain so to speek to run it.

and honestly when I do set up a new tank I am leaning towards a planted fresh water tank again.

Steve

[christyf5]

Definitely not just you. I find I go through cycles of interest and disinterest. I seem to be most interested after coming home from a frag swap, running the gauntlet of vancouver stores or researching some neato piece of equipment that is going to make my tank super awesome. Other times when the tank is having issues with algae or death or whathaveyou I get really disheartened and leave the tank to do its thing for awhile, sometimes it gets worse and other times it gets better on its own.

I also find now, with the tank being so automated that there really isn't much to do for it. Which I suppose is a good thing as the tank does better when I keep my grubby hands out of it, but sometimes it does get a bit boring just sitting there looking at everything. I want to be doing something!!

[Dez]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Definitely not just you. I find I go through cycles of interest and disinterest. I seem to be most interested after coming home from a frag swap, running the gauntlet of vancouver stores or researching some neato piece of equipment that is going to make my tank super awesome. Other times when the tank is having issues with algae or death or whathaveyou I get really disheartened and leave the tank to do its thing for awhile, sometimes it gets worse and other times it gets better on its own.

I also find now, with the tank being so automated that there really isn't much to do for it. Which I suppose is a good thing as the tank does better when I keep my grubby hands out of it, but sometimes it does get a bit boring just sitting there looking at everything. I want to be doing something!!

I just bought $350 worth of frags a week and a half ago and I really wasn't that excited. I went through the monotonous chore of dipping them, acclimating, mounting them and then now they just sit in my tank. I used to take pictures of them immediately after getting them and I haven't yet. And yet I ask myself why I spend so much money on a 1/2" piece of coral just cause it's "rare" or "desired". Do I really like that piece that much to justify spending $50 on a little plug with a bit of encrustation? Ah, the things we go through with this hobby. Yet I know deep down inside I'd miss it if it weren't the centerpiece in my living room. I'll also know that when winter comes around I'll be "excited" again. At least we have Canreef to "vent".

[Lance]

Bored with your tank? Go get yourself a large Thalassoma sp. I guarantee you won't be bored anymore! My Lunare Wrasse, (nicknamed SOB), harasses other fish, eats 75% of the food, splashes the crap out of everything, spits sand all over the corals and rockwork, and generally makes a nuisance of itself. I'm just about to the point of banishing Mr. SOB to the toilet!

But yeah Dez, I hear what you're saying. Sometimes I get a little bored with it too, especially in the summer. Too many other things going on I guess.

[Wayne]

Originally Posted by Lance

Bored with your tank? Go get yourself a large Thalassoma sp. I guarantee you won't be bored anymore! My Lunare Wrasse, (nicknamed SOB), harasses other fish, eats 75% of the food, splashes the crap out of everything, spits sand all over the corals and rockwork, and generally makes a nuisance of itself. I'm just about to the point of banishing Mr. SOB to the toilet!

But yeah Dez, I hear what you're saying. Sometimes I get a little bored with it too, especially in the summer. Too many other things going on I guess.

LOL! "Mr. SOB" that just made my day

[Doug]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

nope not you at all. after what 7 years of running my 90, I decied I would do a custome tanks and tor it down sold everything and then because I was going to move put the new tank on hold. now almost 2 years later I think back at it and I was board for the last 3 years of running the tank.

I have no regreat to shutting it down and if I am being quite honest I don't think at this point that I have any desire to set up the new tank. I don't miss the maintanence, the worry if you go away, the pain in the ass events when something goes wrong or the money throwen down the drain so to speek to run it.

and honestly when I do set up a new tank I am leaning towards a planted fresh water tank again.

Steve

Ah yes, but you would miss us. Thats why you stay on Canreef, even though your tankless.

Sometimes I think I keep reef aquariums, just so I can be a part of the various boards.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Doug

Ah yes, but you would miss us. Thats why you stay on Canreef, even though your tankless.

Sometimes I think I keep reef aquariums, just so I can be a part of the various boards.

well I have a beta in a bowl, does that count

but ya, I have met a few good friends through the hobby one I even concider one of my best, even though he never writes, never calls, haha.
I also got to meet DES, when we were both young in the hobby on one of my trips back home to edmonton.

There also also several people I have talked to on the internet that maybe one day I will meet, including yourself. so ya even though I am in a lull right now I still hang around.

Steve

[Doug]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

well I have a beta in a bowl, does that count

but ya, I have met a few good friends through the hobby one I even concider one of my best, even though he never writes, never calls, haha.
I also got to meet DES, when we were both young in the hobby on one of my trips back home to edmonton.

There also also several people I have talked to on the internet that maybe one day I will meet, including yourself. so ya even though I am in a lull right now I still hang around.

Steve

[Delphinus]

In >12 years now of having a reef tank or another in all this time, I think I can honestly say that I have not once felt "boredom" with respect to the hobby. Not to say things don't ebb and flow, and certainly terms such as elation, interest, excitement, anticipation, frustration, stress or outright distress, fatigue, happiness, sadness, anger, .... and probably at least a dozen more but "boredom" ... ? No. Not yet.

This is still pretty a wild ride for me. I love the ocean and what lives in it ... this hobby affords me a portal to that which I could not otherwise have access to.

And it's because it's a portal to that something which is greater than the sum of its parts, I can't really realistically forsee boredom as a possibility anyhow. It's a medium, or a channel. What it shows is something I don't think is possible to get bored of.

[Dez]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

nope not you at all. after what 7 years of running my 90, I decied I would do a custome tanks and tor it down sold everything and then because I was going to move put the new tank on hold. now almost 2 years later I think back at it and I was board for the last 3 years of running the tank.

I have no regreat to shutting it down and if I am being quite honest I don't think at this point that I have any desire to set up the new tank. I don't miss the maintanence, the worry if you go away, the pain in the ass events when something goes wrong or the money throwen down the drain so to speek to run it.

and honestly when I do set up a new tank I am leaning towards a planted fresh water tank again.

Steve

Steve, I was in the same boat. Shut down all of my tanks and sold everything. Didn't have a tank for about 4 1/2 years. Finally last year I set up the tank. I don't regret it one bit. I really really like my aquarium now. I set it up so it's pretty low maintenance. It's just that I can't really add stuff anymore so it's just a slow waiting game to see which corals I'll let grow out and which corals I'll keep hacking to allow the others to grow. I think it's just cause it's summer. I'm sure if you set up again you won't regret it and learn from all of the other mistakes you made in the past. Still, almost one year later from my current tank build, I wouldn't really change anything except that I would've started with a brand new custom tank instead of a used scratched one. I'm sure you'll be back Steve