can you waste a day watching your tank???

[ithorian_r]

i dont know about anyone else, but i can waste a lot of my day, if i allowed myself to, just watching my tank and all its critters. swimming back and forth, in and out of rockwork, and interacting with each other. something about it just calms me down and brings joy to me that they are happy and thriving.
anyone else like that??

 

[jerthunter]

Sorry, what was the question? I got distracted by the pretty fishies in my tank....

 

[ithorian_r]

haha, exactly my point!

 

[mitzel]

My wife gets bent because I will sit and watch the fish for hours.
The funny thing is I will tell her hey honey come look at this crazy fish. and she will sit there with me for hours watching . :notsure:

 

[matty0h_52]

Originally Posted by mitzel
My wife gets bent because I will sit and watch the fish for hours.
The funny thing is I will tell her hey honey come look at this crazy fish. and she will sit there with me for hours watching . :notsure:

exact samething will happend to me. hahahaha thats funny. I just tell her its nessesary for me to watch the tank so i know everything is cool.

 

[ithorian_r]

its my form of therapy. i would say cheap therapy but this hobby isnt that cheap....

 

[mitzel]

Good therapy for sure .

 

[ssweet1]

It can take days if you stare at the tank and then decide to change the rock work. I have ended up pulling all nighters thinking it wouldnt take me that long. Funny thing is I usually dont cuss but when the stupid digitata frags fall and knock something else or fall behind a rock I get so mad, its a good thing everyone else is asleep

Carrie

 

[chipmaker]

Well I succeeded in wasteing away the last 8 or 9 months doing it, day in day out......Don;t really matter much as I am retired, so all I do is tinker around with my fish.......I think the grass was totally neglected this summer, due to the SW tanks, last year it was all freshwater tanks and my natural ponds and koi, but one thing in common is its all time spent watching and fooling with my fish.......I could not tellyou what time it is or day of the moth anymore since I do not wear a watch since I have no place to be at any particular time/day/month anymore, so why not spend that free time fish watching.........

 

[rob_ou]

Yeah, I can spend all day watching my fish. I've only got a FW tank going right now, my SW is just a few days old. Not much to watch there. Somehow, though, I can still be mesmerized by the tiny amount of life that hitchhiked on my LR.
I can't wait to be retired. I'm only 20, though, so I have a while. All my friends call me "the old man."

 

[bluelagoon]

my boyfriend came over and i once just glanced at my little tank, and got so distracted looking at the lr, my hermit crabs, my fish..... let's just say he got a little jealous!
but best of all, he's totally ok w/ me getting a huge tank eventually, one day, after college, and we get married..... so in several years! lol

 

[ithorian_r]

yeah im in college as well and when i move into a house in the spring, you bet your -$$ that im getting a bigger tank!

 

[diane4]

Well, I totally disagree with you - and I think everyone else on this forum would disagree with you, we don't WASTE a day or hours.
Who said we were waisting time :joy:

Anything else we spend time on that isn't related to our fish hobby is waisting time. hehehe
A freight train could be driving down the road and a bill is overdue and I would get annoyed that the train vibrated the house and that vibrated the tank and my Jillie is upset. Or, who needs to pay a bill, I would rather spend money I don't have on fish stuff. Well, of course the electrice bill is important, have to keep the lights on for the fish.
Sicko we are. I was at the docs today and while I was truly waisting time, I was looking at a catalog for a nearby store. The sale circular showed on a page this caddy that was circular and had small compartments for putting candy, nuts or whatever in. For serving. I thought, hmmmm, that thing looks like it has good uses for storing fish stuff. food preps, whatever.
Everything I see has a purpose for the fish or the tanks. What a disease.

 

[funkyman]

It's very easy to do. There's really no such thing as a "quick look" at the tank. I think the least amount of time I spend there is 10 minutes. I usually start at one end of the tank, and when I get to the other side.....I start over because I might have missed something.

 

[sundance1]

I have cought myself,many times,just stareing into my tank and it is peaceful. ***)

 

[misty7850]

Any day spent watching the tank is not a wasted day...

 

[cora]

Especially where fish are concerned. My family thinks I'm obsessed, or maybe possessed, because whenever they call I'm usually doing something with fish—working on the tank, watching the tank, aclaimating something for the tank, going shopping for something for the tank, or ordering something for the tank.
They say, "Gosh mom, don't you ever do anything else beside obsess with your aquarium?" And I say, "Not if I can help it." It really is a disease, but a healthy one—if you can afford it.

 

[snailheave]

no

 

[ithorian_r]

ok so maybe waste was the wrong word.....how bout spend??? would that make everyone happy??

 

[julius]

I do it sometimes,but a friend of mind will fall a sleep in front of his tank from sitting there to long