I finally lost my last living fish a few weeks ago, and today I sold off the last functioning aquarium. Of course, I still have many empties, and a lot of equipment, in the basement, but for the first time in many years I have no living fish in the house–nothing to feed (except for the cats, dog, crabs) before bed.
I had many iterations of African Cichlids–a period of a beautiful reef tank–and finished with one sad and practically unkillable Tiger Barb–I sort of went out of fishkeeping not with a bang, but a whimper! 🙁
What happened? Did you just lose interest in the fish? My husband’s been working on his reef tank for almost a year now (he just upgraded to a huge 75 gallon room-divider type) and I’m afraid to think that one day he might lose interest in it and leave us with all this unused equipment!
BTW, now I’ve got to sell the old 30 gal. tank – any suggestions other than craigslist?
I gradually lost interest–as my daughter got older, I think, and as I got more involved in computer stuff. A year is nothing–it took me more like 10 years to finally lose interest totally. And when I think of all the money I drowned in there!
Better hang on to that 30, though. I’ve got a feeling he’s going to want it as a quarantine tank, or for a breeding experiment, or you never know!
Here’s my friend Randy http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/mar2002/cw.htm who now works at Pratt–he was really my guru in the hobby, and he’s got an amazing sea horse colony in the Pratt writing center now.
Thanks, I’m forwarding the link to Paul, so he can spend even more time online reading about this stuff 🙂
Wish I could keep the 30 gal. but no basement and I’m feeling lots of pressure to get rid of stuff as it is. (“Ruru, why do we have 3 strollers, one with a broken wheel?!)