OK this may seem a odd question. However, I think the only dumb question is the one you didn't ask.
My wife and I started in the hobby 30 years ago and have been keeping aquariums every since from a small 20G freshwater tank to our current 220G Mostly SPS reef and her 90G mixed reef. I do all he manual labor and she does the color picking and fish feeding. She also gives me direction if I get too far out of line. We have very nice tanks and have had reasonable success growing and propagating coral. We have most of the latest equipment and a high level of automation on both of our tanks.
I just turned 70 and am comfortably retired. My wife is just as passionate about the hobby as I am and we love to travel up and down the east cost to frag swaps, Reef A Palooza's and MACNA type events. We drove 800 miles Sunday (400 miles each way) to pick up a great deal on a 200G water tank for our mixing station upgrade. The question is this! We are thinking about upgrading our 220 to a 450G . Some of our friends and family think were nuts! Although were 70 and 65 we don't feel like were old. I can drive 16 hours nonstop and although I will be tired I can't say it bothers me that much. I love messing around with the tank and rarely feel like it.is work. I feel like the bigger tank will give me a whole new opportunity to add more corals and fish that we don't currently have because of size constraints. I don't really put a lot of thought in to what others think but I do respect the opinions of the people on this forum.
Is 70 too old to be thinking of a mega build or is it a perfect cap to a wonderful life in this hobby
My wife and I started in the hobby 30 years ago and have been keeping aquariums every since from a small 20G freshwater tank to our current 220G Mostly SPS reef and her 90G mixed reef. I do all he manual labor and she does the color picking and fish feeding. She also gives me direction if I get too far out of line. We have very nice tanks and have had reasonable success growing and propagating coral. We have most of the latest equipment and a high level of automation on both of our tanks.
I just turned 70 and am comfortably retired. My wife is just as passionate about the hobby as I am and we love to travel up and down the east cost to frag swaps, Reef A Palooza's and MACNA type events. We drove 800 miles Sunday (400 miles each way) to pick up a great deal on a 200G water tank for our mixing station upgrade. The question is this! We are thinking about upgrading our 220 to a 450G . Some of our friends and family think were nuts! Although were 70 and 65 we don't feel like were old. I can drive 16 hours nonstop and although I will be tired I can't say it bothers me that much. I love messing around with the tank and rarely feel like it.is work. I feel like the bigger tank will give me a whole new opportunity to add more corals and fish that we don't currently have because of size constraints. I don't really put a lot of thought in to what others think but I do respect the opinions of the people on this forum.
Is 70 too old to be thinking of a mega build or is it a perfect cap to a wonderful life in this hobby