Leaving hobby???

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Originally Posted by asmodeus

Danny IMO I Feel that people may be jsut gettign or wanting a change in life. WHat I could never understand is that people that have 3-5 tanks setups in their house. My self I have a 170 with a 45 gal sump and a 20 refugium and that is lots for me in the hobby.

Or maybe that i'm to much of a perfectionist when it comes to my tank. But back to your question I have known some people tha get out fo the hoby just from the problems in Algae or money issues. Or waiting til the last minute to change 3 400's, a u.v bulb, RO/DI filter's it all adds up and then they say the heck with.

I know i'm constantly buying stuff for the tank i jsut drop about $250 on Sun for the tank like nothing it doenst take long to add up.

Ditto this.. I think long-term costs of keeping a reef up is hurting people most. I could never have a big tank (right now) for this very reason, salt, bulbs, RO/DI cartridges, etc.. it's just too much for a lot of people to keep up with. I find with a smaller tank, it's more maintenance but less money being put into replacements (or a lesser amount of replacements)

Also, family and career take up ones time quite a bit, and I think this catches up to reefers as well.

I too have noticed lots of people from Alberta selling off their systems. But.. gotta do what ya gotta do.

Algaes can really get the best of some people too, I agree with this. So many times I have questioned giving up from hair algae and just after two years nto being able to have a clean algae-free tank. It's frustrating because you put so much money into the tank, and your getting crappy results. It's enough to make one throw in the towel, I don't blame them... because we feel we just end up doing more/spending more to get rid of the problem , and for some it's not so easily fixed. This along with other fun reef problems ... but, it's what makes this hobby what it is... a challenge!

I feel ya Mike. I went to the LFS yesterday, got a coral and a fish.. and that cost me rougly 90$ . We're a bunch of crazy people sometimes