Ever get bored?

Dez · #1 07-10-2010, 05:31 AM

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.

burrows14 · #2 07-10-2010, 05:38 AM

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

Ken · #3 07-10-2010, 05:56 AM

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

kien · #4 07-10-2010, 06:11 AM

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

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

snow1 · #5 07-10-2010, 06:44 AM

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.

bill_e · #6 07-10-2010, 07:35 AM

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

StirCrazy · #7 07-10-2010, 02:52 PM

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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 · #8 07-10-2010, 04:16 PM

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 · #9 07-10-2010, 04:27 PM

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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 · #10 07-10-2010, 05:06 PM

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.