Oh for crying out loud! Here is the solution!!!
Get him "addicted" to the hobby. THAT is the secret. My husband complained in the beginning too. Now he can't wait for the new shrimp tank, and HE asks if I did the PWC when they should be done. Pretty soon you will have him doing the vacs!
Are you kidding? The closest I can get him to interested in the hobby is a brine shrimp tank that he just had to have in remembrance of his Sea Monkey kit when he was a kid. I got him a little 2.5 gal tank and heater for his "sea monkeys," and when he expressed an interest in a betta, I got him a filter for it and a gift card to the lfs when he's done with his brine shrimp fascination to try to get him more interested. To no avail. I think that little tank will ultimately end up being one of the hospital/qt tanks when he's done. He actually just got on my case a bit ago about even talking about the fish and aquariums at all. "I don't go on about my video games that you're not interested in...." blah blah blah. No, he just goes on about everything else, like his blacksmithig and knifemaking, and what his friends did today or last night or....
Like I care! But I listen and would
never even
consider telling him not to talk about it just because I'm not interested, or as interested, as he is.
We have two dogs and six cats, too, so yeah, the vacuuming gets done fairly often; his thing is that it just seems that I'm sucking up unused food and waste "all the time." But then, he doesn't make any time/effort investment in any of the other pets, either. Both dogs are mine (greyhound and weimaraner), and five of the six cats are, too. But even
his cat I clean up after (and it's not really all that box trained, I might add) and feed. He's all about "appreciating" their presence, and not at all interested in their care.
Yeah, I know, it seems more like the ultimate solution is to toss his, and his cat's, butt out the door...
And go grab up that cute young thing at my favorite FS that was flirting with me last time I was in! :evil_lol::evil_lol::evil_lol::evil_lol::evil_lol: He wanted to hug me BECAUSE I do my vacuuming and water changes!! :evil_lol:
Btw... I started this topic as a light-hearted joke about aquarium maintenance. I'm sorry to see that there are folks who took it too seriously and/or took offense.
