Do you have any regrets taking up this hobby?

ReefBliss · Jul 28, 2019

It's a love and hate relationship - this reef keeping hobby. Sometimes when everything goes right (perfect water chemistry, happy corals), it's a very fulfilling odyssey; and other times it can be outright disheartening (eg outbreaks you can't control, coral fighting that leads to expensive losses, etc).

Please share your own personal thoughts on this topic.

Antics · Jul 28, 2019

I really enjoy the hobby but I regret the financial hurdles that lack of planning or patience have caused.

BeejReef · Jul 28, 2019

I love it, but resent it when a tank emergency steals family time.. U know an hour or two of effort will prevent a full weekend tear down and tears, but u are usually the only one that appreciates that fact.

Crabs McJones · Jul 28, 2019

I regret not going bigger right away

fishybizzness · Jul 28, 2019

I regret having to go to work every day instead of staying home to look at my aquarium!!

JustAnotherNanoTank · Jul 28, 2019

Crabs McJones said:
I regret not going bigger right away

I felt that. Same as ^

PYRU · Jul 28, 2019

Antics said:
I really enjoy the hobby but I regret the financial hurdles that lack of planning or patience have caused.

Amen to that.

Sailingeric · Jul 28, 2019

Should have started sooner and gone bigger.

Mr Fishface · Jul 28, 2019

Most of my regrets are not monitoring levels of different things for my corals in the beginning. Now I monitor each day or every other day depending on the test right now and it makes me happy to be able to take care of my corals the right way.

yan2pr · Jul 28, 2019

I regret not researching at all before jumping on this expensive voyage. I went to my LFS saw a tank and showed up at home with it. Wife was "ok" at that point but having to upgrade lights twice in a couple of months and pumps twice definetly killed that "ok" really quick. I could have saved money or just gone bigger which im trying to do now.

Peace River · Jul 28, 2019

I regret not paying more attention to water quality in the beginning. On the other hand, fish keeping has taught me so much about life that it has been an invaluable experience.

Hitman · Jul 28, 2019

Welcome to R2R!!!

Old Fritz · Jul 28, 2019

first tank was a ten gallon that limited me a lot on basically everything. would've started out a lot larger

rodney · Jul 28, 2019

Yes I should have always used rodi water and carbon dosed then I would still have my coral from the 90s! Oh well hear is to looking foreword!

SPR1968 · Jul 29, 2019

Welcome to R2R!!

PanchoG · Jul 29, 2019

Crabs McJones said:
I regret not going bigger right away

+1 !!!!!!

vetteguy53081 · Jul 29, 2019

Biggest regret is not attending enough swaps and shows such as MACNA and RAP.
Other is seeing prices rising every year rather than coming down

ScottR · Jul 29, 2019

It’s such a setback when something bad happens in your tank, whether your fault or not. I recently got a big plate piece of a brain coral. It’s MF stung corals at night and melted some of my favorites.