Aquarium hobby

[SwampFootParticipant 62]

anyone else here into keeping aquariums, breeding fish, etc?

i have always held a huge level of fascination with all things aquatic. i have been largely successful in everything i have attempted to do when it comes to aquariums, largely because i have always been interested enough to learn.

so, it becomes difficult for me to keep aquariums in the conventional methods when i deploy so often, so what i do is set up tanks so that they take care of themselves for the most part while i am gone. the only thing i really need people to do is keep them topped off with water. the rest, for the most part, takes care of itself. this allows me to set up a tank, toss in a few guppies that i want to breed, and then pop smoke for half a year. when i come back, i have a tank full various mixes of whatever fish i set up. this means that even though i am only home for about 3 months out of the year, i can still keep breeding projects going without needing anyone else to do daily maintenance on my tanks. no need to feed them, do water changes, etc. the only thing i need is for someone to go in once every month or three and top off the tanks. i could get away from that if i really wanted to, but so far i havent needed to.

usually, ill have a tank set up just for display purposes as well. that tank gets maintained with nothing but water, an airstone, and an algae scrubber. when i get home, i move my favorite fish into that tank so that i can enjoy watching them. it prevents all of the new tank issues.

while i am deployed, i can sometimes keep vernal pool critters, like triops and killifish. depends on the type of deployment.

anyone else into the aquarium hobby?

[Secret Agent MGTOWParticipant 22529]

stuff fails and power can go out, monthly visits wont catch surprise failures.

Women want everything, but want responsibility and accountability for nothing.

[SwampFootParticipant 62]

Secret Agent MGTOW wrote:

stuff fails and power can go out, monthly visits wont catch surprise failures.

well, yeah. i have to account for that too. i have been doing this for nearly a decade though, so i have most of that stuff worked out.

[bladeParticipant]

Use to be like over 20 years ago would of been my last tank .

Set up an artificial wall that looked natural . Cave holes everywhere running into pvc pipes . It went half way then levelled of to an open space then plants that got thicker and heavier towards the end .

Tank was 8ft by 2ft if i remember . And had a second tank with oscars . Tell ya a trick i did with them back then . I use to buy ox or cow heart . Important to trim every little bit of fat . Feed em that between goldfish and s~~~ .

Guys face at the Aquarium shop back then . He couldnt beleave how big i got these oscars when i got rid of them back to him .

Had tropicals . Had shrimp . Even a nice cray fish from my local mountains .

Caught a bullrout ( fresh water stonefish) . Put that in my tank and soon f~~~ed the ugly lazy c~~~ back to where i caught him .

I used river sand from my local hills to .

When i was young i was waiting on two pirhanas but the dude got busted .

Was only recently thinking of fish tanks seems the woman in my building got me stopped from doing woodwork that i would spend 2 to 3 hours a week on . Cant use my tools anymore but i f~~~in got one complaining bitch in big trouble for stealing and shutting of a vent in our basement . Noise complaint on me while two building been built one behind one next to us .

If they f~~~ with me again i will be bringing around a few sisters . F~~~in postwall hard up attention hags .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[bladeParticipant]

The same bro if you set ya tank up wrightit begins to take care of its bio self .

After the first 6 months of set up i hardly changed water often and when i did it was probably around a half or one third of the tank .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[Anonymous 42]

There’s still an inch of water in Milo’s tank, but no Milo! He died from PTSD.

[Anonymous 54]

Had a Freind once who was told by his Doc that he needed a relaxing hobby ,to lower his blood pressure.
So he got an aqaurium.
Bought some really expensive fish, that started eating each other.

Hes yelling and screaming at them! Hahh
One day hes punching the water at them!
Red faced and p~~~ed off!! Hhahah

[SwampFootParticipant 62]

blade wrote:

The same bro if you set ya tank up wrightit begins to take care of its bio self .

After the first 6 months of set up i hardly changed water often and when i did it was probably around a half or one third of the tank .

yeah, they really do tend to take care of themselves if you set them up right. most of my tanks are usually set up with plants. the long term ones are set up with lots of algae, which i encourage to grow for its amazing ability to remove ammonia. it may not be the prettiest tank in the world, but it keeps my fish alive for months on end with no maintenance.

Anonymous wrote:

There’s still an inch of water in Milo’s tank, but no Milo! He died from PTSD.

lol, for some reason, that reminded me of the one time i tried to keep an american eel. i will never do so again. the damned thing was about as suicidal as could be. there were several times where it escaped from the tank. i would often notice it missing in the morning when i woke up, then not be able to find it until i came home 12-14 hours later. it would be half dried and still alive, tucked in a corner somewhere. crazy bastard…

[SwampFootParticipant 62]

Anonymous wrote:

Had a Freind once who was told by his Doc that he needed a relaxing hobby ,to lower his blood pressure.
So he got an aqaurium.
Bought some really expensive fish, that started eating each other.

Hes yelling and screaming at them! Hahh
One day hes punching the water at them!
Red faced and p~~~ed off!! Hhahah

when i was in highschool, i knew a guy who had an oscar. well, a local fish store employee told him that if he bought about 50 neon tetras at a time, they would school together and the oscar would think they are one big fish, so he would leave them alone. after the first batch got slaughtered, he went back. the guy sold him 50 more, telling him that he has to FEED the oscar first. when his tank was pretty much desolate again the next day, he finally asked me what he was doing wrong.

took me about fifteen minutes to answer him properly. had to stop laughing. it wasn’t just that he did it… everyone makes mistakes. he did it TWICE! he obviously wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed…

on a side note, those larger predatory fish make pretty good pets. i have always found them to have the most personality. they actually learn to recognize the people that feed them. oscars are known for that. so are sunfish/bass, etc. i used to have a longear sunfish that would rub itself on my hand like it wanted to be petted. wouldn’t do it for anyone else.

[bstoffParticipant 4865]

I have a couple of tanks. One is planted and pretty much takes care of itself, but I still run filters and maintain them just to keep the tank clean and pretty.

[Sky-OParticipant 18936]

I am unable to watch life forms of a kind that are trapped in an artificial, enclosed environment.

It reminds me of my former existence.

All appeared well from the outside looking in. But I was swimming in the same tank. Over and over. Back and forth. With no chance to escape and swim free.

My tank was one of flawed adherence to self defeating expectations imposed on me by those that had control. A control that I willingly surrendered as I did with my sovereignty.

Trapped. Unable to escape. Looking out with eyes that could almost taste freedom but no way to escape.

Years went by. The water was changed along with filters. I was fed and all seemed well. But I was still trapped.

I eventually got out of the tank and into the ocean. An ocean full of risk and uncertainty. Bombarded with reality and painful truths.

But I was free.

A part of my soul now aches when I see any living entity trapped, unable to leave the confines of an artificial world.

[743 roadmasterParticipant]

Have done it in the past,.. not the market for fish there once was. Unless you run it as set up and upkeep for offices.

mgtow is its own worst enemy- https://www.campusreform.org/

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