Is Aquarium really a guy's hobby?

[ahyann]

Ok i admit i was looking at the girls scoping CRS at C328 , but other than that i believe its a guy's hobby? just for fun, do your girlfriends or wife support your hobby?

[hwchoy]

this topics has gone around the world twice already. search the forum you should find the old threads.

as for the girls scooping CRS, I recommend that you approach them and asks them to join www.aquaticquotient.com

[trident]

I do think it's generally a man's hobby, those girls you see scooping crs, mostly the BF or hubby will have to take care of it.

[Burnz]

Actually i am incline to think that ladies would do well in designing aquascapes as they are better with detail and colors... that is if they are not too sqirmish with handling fishes and rotting plants. My other half likes the hobby but can't handle the fishes

[beetlejuice403]

Ha! Ha! Same here bro... For my case, I was the one who was really very into this hobby & went on to buy all the necessary (tanks, filters, fishes, shrimps & plants etc...) in starting up [Then there will be comments like "Huh! So small 'prawns' - refering to Cherries & Sakuras - so expensive, might as well buy those prawns fro market to eat better..."]

However, when the tank is slightly more matured with plants' growth & shrimps carrying eggs & new shrimplets... She was the one vying with me for the space to watch & look at the stuffs inside the tank now & then... "Wow! See, there's another 'prawn' here with eggs!!" "So cute! The baby 'prawns' so small one!!" [Despite the fact that I'd tried to explain to her that these are SHRIMPS, not PRAWNS... think I'd failed miserably... ]

Anyway, the point is: It's good if you have someone else in the family to share this hobby with you (not necessarily in the costs) as it'll serve as a form of garnering support for new faunas/ floras to add in the future...

PS: Until tday, I'm still wrecking my brain in thinking of a way to get my wife involved in maintaining the tanks (topping up of water, water change, scooping up of dead faunas' corpses or simply feeding them...) in my house.... Anyone has such experiences before & were successful in doing so, please share with me the method ok? LOL!!

I'm also very sure that there are some ladies out there who are very good in this hobby, but maybe they are just watching AQ at a side.... & laughing (or even sneering!!) at some of the questions posed by us....

Actually i am incline to think that ladies would do well in designing aquascapes as they are better with detail and colors... that is if they are not too sqirmish with handling fishes and rotting plants. My other half likes the hobby but can't handle the fishes

[quix]

hehehe my gf has always been fascinated by my fishes and turtles from day one. She likes looking and them and feeds them when I am not around. She thinks I am bad fish papa and always starve them. And we've agreed to have a big tank (6ft or more?) as a showpiece in our future new home. I still think I would prefer to do my own maintenance though.

[AquaObsession]

ya my gf also very helpful. I brought her in the hobby a few years ago. Now we go lfs very often together.

If gf (or wife) is not supportive, I think it is quite hard to enjoy the hobby to the fullest. Not just having a tank there, but actively scaping it, doing water change, choosing fishes, rescaping, choosing plants and other hardscape.

To get a new tank, I just have to say that I am buying for her. After coming back home, guess what, it's all mine! Nah seriously, having someone to share the hobby is very fun. BUt bad things, she also know how much these stuff costs.

Long time ago, when I first bought a JBJ solanoid, I told her it was $20. She believed it. That was at start.

Cheers, Christophe

[WaterH2O]

It was my wife who first got me into this hobby. She commented that the tank in the lfs very nice want to have 1 and that was the beginning. In the end, I am the one maintaining the tanks, now total I have 3. As more and more tank pops up, you can notice that she is not too happy about it. Then again, there is a limit to how many you can have in a small HDB flat.
Never asked her if she regretted her decision to get the first tank.

[ahyann]

hahaha at least they know where our money is going too good to hear so many supportive partners here. i guess sometimes the nagging just make u think twice before buying useful stuff. Like driving... the SWD beside you keeps beeping also lol