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Originally Posted by reef_raf
Mitch, as I was saying to Tony. I don't so much hate the hobby, just my tank. I still very much enjoy the board and the hobby in general. Just 53 weeks of this battle has beat me down.
I think it's best if I start over, but I'm stuck with what I have. Somehow I need to work with it, unless someone with a lot of money and a truck shows up at my door.  |
Wholly crap Brad. I never relized it was that bad either. Sorry for the losses.
Like you, its my tanks, not the hobby. I still love it and faithfully read most of my dozen or so boards everyday, with great anticipation.
Mitch, I disagree larger is better. Sorry, but thats where I have been. My systems are fully automated. Flatworms would not be so cute if anyone had the problems I had with them. Same with many others I know on the boards. Larger still means hard to reach in and clean, lots of salt for water changes, more and larger lights, large skimmers with large pumps and so on.
My current tank is lightly stocked, barebottom, lots of growth room for the sps corals. Unlike some of my other problems or some of the other posts here, my corals and fish are doing extremely well. Its still the upkeep and equipment of the large tanks that frustrate me now.
Like I mentioned before, perhaps to many years, to many problems lead to burnout. I have been at it for over 30 years, about 14 with a reef tank of somekind.
Another frustrating thing is all the aquarists I know on the boards and seeing some of their major problems like being mentioned here. It just makes me go hmmmmmmmm.
I guess these are just my feelings of course as I also know many with large, high tech tanks, that would have it no other way. So my major point on this thread is to agree with the philosophy of Bev and Bob, rather than leaving the hobby after many frustrations.