How do y'all afford the hobby?

[Redbeardz]

I’m down one kidney and pretty close to selling the other one!!

 

[Opus]

I send out thousands of emails daily to people saying I'm going to post what I've recorded from their pc/phone camera unless they send me bitcoin. Turns out to be a very lucrative business!

 

[reefbandit]

Had to resort to selling my body on the streets!

 

[Reefdiculous22]

Nailed it. Too many people drinking the reef Koolaid. Costs can be contained by avoiding all the bougie gear, overpriced glass boxes, etc.

Nailed it. Too many people drinking the reef Koolaid. Costs can be contained by avoiding all the bougie gear, overpriced glass boxes, etc.

I fell into this. I bought a big tank and all the equipment only to find out 2 mo in I can’t afford to keep the tank going. Very sad indeed

 

[gbru316]

I send out thousands of emails daily to people saying I'm going to post what I've recorded from their pc/phone camera unless they send me bitcoin. Turns out to be a very lucrative business!

I just got a text from "M&T bank" (with whom I do not have an account) with my bill access code, and a strange link to click if I did not request a bill access code.

Was this you? :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

 

[AydenLincoln]

I don’t I’m in debt over it!:rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: JK! Seriously though this hobby is expensive and takes planning but I will say most people throw out the budget and just save for it. Or if you’re like me you need to stop going to the fish store and spending a hundred or more a week lol. And even though I have a nano it has cost me several thousand dollars because I bought everything new and I love tech so it has a full Apex.

 

[Reefdiculous22]

I’m thinking of resorting to selling drugs. J/k:thinking-face:

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I live off of Mac and cheese and hotdogs. Lol
D

 

[Reefdiculous22]

I live off of Mac and cheese and hotdogs. Lol
D

Hopefully you mix them together :)

 

[Reef and Dive]

Neurosurgery (previously spelled nerosurgery )

 

[Gtinnel]

Nerosurgery

Not to doubt you but it’s hard to believe a neurosurgeon would spell neurosurgery wrong.

 

[Sean Clark]

Nerosurgery

Not to doubt you but it’s hard to believe a neurosurgeon would spell neurosurgery wrong.

I think that means they have a lucrative business repairing Nero pumps. :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

 

[Reef and Dive]

Not to doubt you but it’s hard to believe a neurosurgeon would spell neurosurgery wrong.

Sorry haha but it is true. It is also true I spelled it wrong! It got funny anyway…

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Like u got neurosurgery done on yourself to justify the costs ?
Lol
...and of course sometimes I mix em and put ketchup on it. White man's hot sauce lol
S

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

*-d

 

[gbru316]

Like u got neurosurgery done on yourself to justify the costs ?
Lol
...and of course sometimes I mix em and put ketchup on it. White man's hot sauce lol
S

I think they mean they donated their prefrontal cortex. Now they just don't care about spending all their money on a glass box filled with water.

 

[Tiki_Reef]

DUI attorney in Tampa (trust me we do not make a lot) and I have no life with the exception of my family and reef tanks. I am a boring person.

 

[Michael-IMARCS]

I got into the hobby as a 10-year-old kid, nearly 30 years ago. I grew up poor, and it odd jobs to earn a few dollars to be able to buy fish and had a very basic 20 gallon glass set up. I bought everything used or given away. There are a lot of good deals I’d you look for them because this hobby has a 99% turnover rate in the first 1-3 years.

took a 10 year hiatus in my 20s, was blessed to start what has become an international enterprise, and now I don’t have to worry about what the hobby costs.

 

[Reef and Dive]

I think they mean they donated their prefrontal cortex. Now they just don't care about spending all their money on a glass box filled with water.

It would actually make more sense. But in fact the long course and hours spent to become this may have damaged my brain enough to get prepared to the hobby….

 

[HBtank]

No kids or wife does wonders for the toy budget :winking-face: