Aquariums are so addictive as a hobby!?

[yeoyl87]

when my tank is high on bioload, i start buying and upgrading equipment...or new and better types of fish food...i have so much fish food that i can't see myself being able to use them up by next year

hehe~ Bro Illumnae, don't waste good stuff. If needed, I can help you use

[illumnae]

no problem alan. feel free to drop by one day when we're both free and you can get some if you want. coffee on me too

[Ah_ZhaN]

Addiction is only the beginning stage......


I believe most of us have already fallen into the Hardcore category.

[Shaihulud]

I have 3 tanks in my room, one which is 4 ft, 2 tanks in my office. When i was living in kampong, we kept fish in concrete tanks.

[luenny]

Hahaha ... reading this thread makes me feel less guilty. My story is like this. I have been keeping and breeding fishes since a very young age but stop for a long time. So when I got my own place, I thought I'll have a tank to keep me busy. So started with fish addiction. Then I see planted tank, so I got addicted to plants and driftwood and other aquascaping stuff. And I found out that the existing fishes doesn't really go with the plants so I got new fishes. Then I went on to shrimps - cherry, CRS, long nose shrimps, malayan, yamatoes, etc. Then almost gave up on all that when I started keeping discus. Then got addicted to Iwagumi style so started a tank on that. And the tank looks so empty so I started buying shrimps again.

Hahaha ... I guess the more I read in forums like this, the more I'll spend.

[pepe2403]

Well at least everyone here spends their money on a healthy hobby. I would rather spend my money on fishes and beautify my place rather than to spurge them on drinks and visits to clubs.

My husband used to frequent drinking joints until we both went hardcore into this hobby. Now we hardly have time for other stuff. All free time would be spent going around LFS and farms looking for stuff we need. As for the rest of our freetime would be spent maintaining the tanks at home.

I am thankful that we both love this hobby.

As for the addicton part, i would say it's all about self control. Sometimes i see something which i really like but i cannot afford the space or budget to get it,i would just have another look and count 10 and move on. And most important, never go back to have a second look. If you do so tendency you will leave the shop with that fish. 9 out of 10 times this 'count to 10' method works fine for me.

[Justikanz]

That's why the hobby's called addictive...

And that's why I had reduced going to LFSes... Its such a pain to leave the shop without buying anything!

[pepe2403]

I strongly agree with the feeling bad leaving the shop without buying anything. That is why now i will never go to LFS when i have nothing in mind to get.

[benny]

But the fun is to go into a LFS with nothing in mind and leaving with a bag full of treasures!!

Cheers,

[illumnae]

haha that's so true benny! i call my regular visits to LFS my "destressing time" because it's relaxing just going to see fish and more often than not doing some retail therapy by scooping unexpected finds back home.

[illumnae]

Well at least everyone here spends their money on a healthy hobby. I would rather spend my money on fishes and beautify my place rather than to spurge them on drinks and visits to clubs.

My husband used to frequent drinking joints until we both went hardcore into this hobby. Now we hardly have time for other stuff. All free time would be spent going around LFS and farms looking for stuff we need. As for the rest of our freetime would be spent maintaining the tanks at home.

I am thankful that we both love this hobby.

As for the addicton part, i would say it's all about self control. Sometimes i see something which i really like but i cannot afford the space or budget to get it,i would just have another look and count 10 and move on. And most important, never go back to have a second look. If you do so tendency you will leave the shop with that fish. 9 out of 10 times this 'count to 10' method works fine for me.

i fully agree with you...fishkeeping might cause us to spend money, but what hobby doesn't? at least this hobby is healthy unlike drinking to oblivion every weekend

like my fiancee says (jokingly) also...every minute i spent on fish is 1 minute i'm not potentially out with another woman!

[pepe2403]

Many a times we have to remind ourselves to do anything with moderation. Same goes with our fish keeping hobby. I would say it's all about self control and good management skills.
No point keep buying fishes and not being able to care and give them the best.

[luenny]

I cannot not go LFS. My discus wallop a box of frozen bloodworm every week or so. So I have to go top up every week because I only have a small space in my freezer that's meant for fish food. In fact I go so often that the shop keeper knows me already. I get automatic discount if I deal with the bosses.

Anyway, you are right, LFS has a lot of temptations. So I try to get in, grab what I need and leave ASAP.

Now if I can only get the thought of those @#*(# Sulawesi shimps and those @#@*( zebra pleco out of my mind, I'll be able to sleep peacefully tonight. Darn!

[pepe2403]

Wow seems like we got the same headache.
Now my husband dare not bring me to NKS. Once i go there i will yak about the zebra pleco for at least a couple of days