Leaving hobby

[Faurek]

Rainbow unicorn aiptasia 1000usd per head.
Reefers going like "I need to dose my aminos to get those neon pointy ends".
People on r2r complaining their aiptasia browned out like is it too much nitrate or too much phosphate.

 

[FrugalReeferJon]

Exactly.!!! Only you the individual reefer get to determine what “success” looks like for your individual hobby experience. Not expensive equipment or tech. To some, Xenia, Kenya trees, and a few mushrooms are a significant success.

I remember when I started the hobby, the first time, when tangs were $30 and live rock was all you could get. I had some aiptasia show up on my live rock and was SOOO excited about it. To me it wasn’t a pest it was something that was alive in my own personal saltwater tank. To be honest it solidified my love of the hobby it was soo cool…yea…aiptasia did that.!

I'm 53 years old but didn’t start reefing until 2016. It was all about freshwater and African Cichlids for me back in the day. I still remember reading magazines about the reefkeeping hobby. Wasn’t bubble algae considered a good thing too?

 

[oliver1812]

If they were purple and glowed like a 70s black light room they'd be expensive and likely suddenly hard to grow... :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

 

[oliver1812]

I'm 53 years old but didn’t start reefing until 2016. It was all about freshwater and African Cichlids for me back in the day. I still remember reading magazines about the reefkeeping hobby. Wasn’t bubble algae considered a good thing too?

I am not sure about the bubble algae thing, unless some of the really old timers can chime in.
But I think its a natural progression from FW to SW. You and I are about the same age and I had an Oscar in Jr. High that was a gift for my bday and it started from there. I got a wild hair and decided to dabble in FW again last year. I got a 75gal tank, planted it and added some fish. It lasted about 6months.. :upside-down-face:. Once I got it going it ran itself with nothing for me to do. Its now our saltwater predator tank, which bumped me up to 5 systems in the house.:smiling-face-with-halo: