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This is a long post, but please spend a few minutes reading this. Someone told me this and it baffled me:
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"Aquariums are the things people ignore at doctors' offices and corporate lobbies.
If you want people to show interest in your hobby, you have to make something interesting. I had a buddy who was big into animals... not just fish but snakes and spiders and whatever else he could build a habitat for. But that's what he did... he built *habitats*.
He took a 500 gallon tank and turned it into a precise recreation of Lake Tanganyika in Africa. I only know that lake exists because of his tank. I know it's a stratified lake, with distinct layers, and his precisely recreated one of them. And he populated it with African cichlids, both male and female, and then he sealed the tank. They ate each other's babies and such, the only external interactions was monitoring and changing the water quality, based on samples he took from the top of this massive sand filter.
Most people make "pretty" fish tanks. And like I said at the open, those are the most boring things in the world. Make something *real*.
I dabbled in aquariums. And no one cared that my Oscar let me pet his head and was basically more like a water dog than a fish. But no one found what I did interesting, either."
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(Tagging some members. My apology if this bothers you. @Paul B @Katrina71 @ScottR @Sarah24! @Hemmdog @ReefRy )
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"Aquariums are the things people ignore at doctors' offices and corporate lobbies.
If you want people to show interest in your hobby, you have to make something interesting. I had a buddy who was big into animals... not just fish but snakes and spiders and whatever else he could build a habitat for. But that's what he did... he built *habitats*.
He took a 500 gallon tank and turned it into a precise recreation of Lake Tanganyika in Africa. I only know that lake exists because of his tank. I know it's a stratified lake, with distinct layers, and his precisely recreated one of them. And he populated it with African cichlids, both male and female, and then he sealed the tank. They ate each other's babies and such, the only external interactions was monitoring and changing the water quality, based on samples he took from the top of this massive sand filter.
Most people make "pretty" fish tanks. And like I said at the open, those are the most boring things in the world. Make something *real*.
I dabbled in aquariums. And no one cared that my Oscar let me pet his head and was basically more like a water dog than a fish. But no one found what I did interesting, either."
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(Tagging some members. My apology if this bothers you. @Paul B @Katrina71 @ScottR @Sarah24! @Hemmdog @ReefRy )
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