Ever get bored?
 

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.

My tank is growing like crazy and when I see 2 corals almost touching cause they are growing into each other I get frustrated cause I don't want to get out the fragging tools and frag it to prevent them stinging each other.

Someone asked me today how a frag that I got from him was doing and I was sort of embarassed to say that I haven't even looked at it since I got it (last weekend). Partly because my frag tank is on a reverse lighting schedule.

I used to test CA, Mg, Alk every 2 weeks but I haven't tested it in probably a month and a half.

I still keep my tank clean and clean with the magnet every 3 days. I still do weekly water changes. I still feed the fish (although I used to feed frozen daily, I now feed pellet/flake due to laziness). I still sit on the couch and admire it. But it seems I've lost the "spark". Sort of like the spark when you're dating (for all you marrieds out there). I know that I'm never allowed an upgrade so that means no new livestock for me cause my tank is already borderline overcrowded.

Just wondering if it's just me.

Im feeling that way too this week lol blame the heat! my tank is the last thing on my mind when Im sitting on a patio with a bucket of beers :biggrin:

Hi, Naw I never get bored of them, started my first aquarium in 1970 and stll at them, wife bought a new home theatre 60 inch sony lcd etc, etc and I still rather sit in the fish room and watch the widescreen tank, regards Ken

I'm more or less going through the same thing you are, but I wouldn't say I'm bored, just super super busy. So ya, I've got colonies bumping into each other, I've accidentally made some frags that fell onto the sand bed while cleaning and I'm just too busy to do anything about it at the moment. Still doing my regular maintenance. I think part of it also is because our tanks are somewhat "dialed in" or on "auto-pilot" as they say. There's not much that needs to be done really. I used to test the big 3 religiously as well but found that they never changed once I lined the doser up with the tanks needs. I too haven't tested those in a while :redface:

This is actually kind of a blessing I think. Just sort of sit back and enjoy, especially since it is summer and all :biggrin:

For me it's not that I get bored with tank but I get bored with the fish. I like to switch things up from time to time for example like comming into saltwater.

when i get bored ,i think of what it would be like when its gone.:biggrin:

ahhh good point, then it would be really boring.

Hey Dez I know a few people who would have no problem visiting you and "helping" you cut frags :mrgreen: You know....just for the overall health of your corals and all :razz:

Honestly I do sort of get bored, but when I got bored of the 60g I added a 15g when I got bored of those I added a 30g and a 120g, when I got bored of those I added a 230g reef, when I got bored of my reef tank I added a 230g FOWLR. Then just recently I got bored of the 230g fowlr so I added a 20g sps cube. Now I got so many sps frags in the 20g cube I'm thinking of upgrading it to a larger 80g (ish) cube. Needless to say at this rate I'll have more tanks then living space :lol: Good thing I have a large house :mrgreen:

That's what I used to do was to upgrade to keep new stuff coming in. But it's pretty much impossible for me to do now. I have no chance of an upgrade if I want to stay married ;). I like all the stuff in my tank now. I do want to sell some corals to buy other corals but I can't be bothered to list them and arrange for people to come over. So I just live with what I have (and I'm very satisfied with it), but I guess like Kien says, it feels like I'm just coasting. I don't need any new equipment, I don't need any more livestoack, I don't need any more fish.....so it's not like I dream about going to the LFS to see "what's new" anymore. I'm thinking about trying LEDs for my frag tank, but I can't spend that kind of money when what I have works.

I will just count my blessings and be satisfied I guess :)

No Dez.... it is not just you. :biggrin:

I think this is how Multiple Tank Syndrome is born. :ohwell:

Ahhh marriage is over rated isn't it :lol: J/K.

I guess I'd be right were you're at if I couldn't upgrade and change things up, however just think of all the money you save :biggrin:

Why not just bring the frags to MA? You don't need to arrange anything then. :wink:

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

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!! :razz:

I do already, anytime they need any, I bring them. I still have so many.

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".

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.

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

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

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 :)

Funny thing is that as I type this I know I have to frag a few corals and my whole family is out so now is the ideal time to do it but I'm stalling and going on canreef instead cause I don't want to do it......ahhh, the cycle of procrastination.

Hey have you ever thought of going to a counselor to bring that spark back between you and your tank ? :hug:
Funny you mention this as this is what I do sometimes (like now). Awhile back one of my sons started to re-aquascape my 150g and never finished it so now I'm on my own with one arm. The tank hasn't been the same since and things are on the uphappy side. Tomorrow I keep saying. Hang in there Dez

Ever get bored?
 

I must be the laziest hobbyist on canreef :lol: I spent some good time and money on my build so that I could get to this point where I didn't have to do so much. I actually enjoy sitting back and doing next to nothing. :D. I never really found enjoyment in mounting frags or buying fish and all the chores that went with it. I just like the end result. Again, I'm lazy like that! :lol:

this is what I do when Im bored now
 

Bored i hate being bored. I don't know how all you you reefers have time for more then 1 tank. I know that Leah has alot of them and I dont know where she gets the time. may be that is why she upgraded to the 120 to shorten the tanks. and lets see Laurie you have a few tanks don't know where you get the time to do it. Kein you have to tanks
I have the one and wow im full with that one. may be that is when I get bored i buy corals. now I just bought a another moto cross bike rm 125 well Tammy bought it for me since My son I bought him a KTM 65sx for passing Grade 4 he loves it.


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I go through this too all the time especially with the saltwater, I keep saying "do I keep it all or sell it all" mine is a 5.5 gal nano so its not a huge system by any means and I would never go larger for the fact of the prices here are just insane for anything saltwater and my love lies with my freshwater. My little tank is easy to look after but yes it does get boring to me after a while. So you are no the only one and I think certain times of the year is worse than others too.

Cheers
:mrgreen:

Every time I get bored of SPS...wallet gets bigger:mrgreen:

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

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

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

my 90 gal was about as low maintance as you could get back then, so not much to do.. about an hour every two weeks aside from cleaning the glass. but ya.. I will be back at some point, either reef or fresh water. I just cringe now when I think about how much money I spent on my 90 (around 15K) but I know I can set one up a lot cheeper now.. about 7K of the old tank was in lighting as there was no info on that back then and I had to try a bunch of different systems till I found one I liked. I also waisted about 1K just testing PAR outputs of different lights also :twised:.

when I was looking for a new house it was my intention to buld a big in wall tank, 260 gall or bigger, but the house we ended up with has no room to do a inwall tank or a large one for that matter so we will see.

Steve

I don't get bored, just lazy in the summer. I prefer to work outside on my backyard pond. Then I'll take a look at my neglected tanks and feel guilty.

:mrgreen:

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.