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There are many reasons why people have to give up their reef tanks. But I've seen countless members say they will always have a reef tank in their life. That being said there will come a time when they might not be able to care for a reef anymore due to age. So let's talk about that for today.
How long do you expect to be in the hobby and will older age dictate when you break your tanks down for good?
Well, i’m 75 now and just getting started with a 30 gal, if i can maintain it and get my wife interested i want to go to a 100 gal
image via @ChristopherKriens
That’s the problem with you kids... just order the big tank and make yourself happy!64 now and I think health and funds will decide for me. I own my business and work a lot but all things come to an end and when work stops so do my tanks. Been trying to get myself to agree to buy a 8 or 10 ft. Tank but age certainly is a big obstacle .
ll haveI now have 1/2 my natural teeth. When they are gone I will prob be ready for the bone yard. So my best guess is in another 65 years.
theyll have to pry the turkey baster from my cold dead handsAs they put the last screw in the box. Or just use silicone.
Harrr, I thought you are a least a good few years older than me but I am 70 on the 22nd Dec so your less than a year older than I am. My fingers have Arthur and my bladder has shrunk, prostrate is growing but I still have my hair well most of it even if it's a nice shade of silver. Have about half my teeth, I tried dentures but spit them out. Eyes went years ago and I have 2 hearing aids I can sometimes get the BBC radio on if I get on top of a hill or scale a telegraph mast. Sometimes I forget what I forgot and can't remember if I ever knew it in thķe first place. They say growing old doesn't come alone, well if I ever meet him am going to kick his butt along with the grim reaper. Actually he may ask me to sharpen his sickle. I hope to live long enough to be an embarrassment to my children all 5 of them. In fact I think I have accomplished that already but I have 9 grandchildren who seem to enjoy that fact.This Christmas Day I will be 71 and have had a tank continuously for about 65 years.
Even when I was in Nam I had a tank at home. Of course no one took care of it so the only fish, a foot long catfish died 2 weeks before I came home. It was in two inches of slimy "water". ;Bucktooth
I recently sold my house and moved to a smaller condo. Next stop is a nursing home and if they will let me have a tank and a few nurses to take care of it, I will have a tank until I am sharing oxygen from a tank with the fish.
It is getting harder as my wife has MS and I am getting a new knee. It is new but it is rusty or something so they will tear it out again in February and put in a better model. Maybe made of titanium instead of the pressure treated wooden one they used last time from Home Depot. ;Wideyed