Ever get bored?

[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

[Dez]

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.

[andestang]

Hey have you ever thought of going to a counselor to bring that spark back between you and your tank ?
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

Originally Posted by Dez

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.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Dez

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

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 .

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

[MMAX]

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.