i would think so... that tank is bigger than MY bedroom.... spoiled children they areDebra Mark said:both love them like our children.
Does your spouse or partner support your hobby?
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My Parents do...dads got a tank also but my GF doesn't......I can say I know who would go if its was my fish or her 
"tending to the slap to the back of my head"
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i would donate body parts for a tank that big.
just a question for the pacu tank person: how do you maintenance the bottom of the tank. I think I've seen a pic of it before (monster of a pacu swimming, very dim with man standing off to left side).. thats your guys' tank, right?
i'd hate to imagine the gravel vacuum you guys use. no pump action vacuum for you
just a question for the pacu tank person: how do you maintenance the bottom of the tank. I think I've seen a pic of it before (monster of a pacu swimming, very dim with man standing off to left side).. thats your guys' tank, right?
i'd hate to imagine the gravel vacuum you guys use. no pump action vacuum for you
My husband never complains about my hobby, that's because he has a hobby of his own...computers.....niether one of us says anything about the other's hobby.......lol !
Rick....you need to help your wife find a hobby of her own !!
Rick....you need to help your wife find a hobby of her own !!
Debra Mark
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katfood said:just a question for the pacu tank person: how do you maintenance the bottom of the tank. I think I've seen a pic of it before (monster of a pacu swimming, very dim with man standing off to left side).. thats your guys' tank, right?
Yes, that's our tank. My husband actually gets in the tank to clean the glass and do general maintenance.
If you could tell us how you actually went about building that... I'm sure some of us are up for a project like that! (in laws want a fish wall as they finish their basement... up to me to design and set up... up to them to pay for! dream situation lol)
my wife supports and is actually gitting into it now and its working out in my favor she has actualy wanted to vacum the gravel she thinks it is fun. and as soon as we move i get to buy as big of a tank as i want so im looking at the 150 gal to move up from my 75 gal.
The Hubby's ok with the fish, he would like me to get some more color like tetras. If I ask him if I can get something it's generally ok, cause I'm the one who does the bills, he just earns most of it for me to spend .
He's actually going to help me with the lights and co2 since he's used to improvising and does a lot more handymanish stuff than me.
He's actually going to help me with the lights and co2 since he's used to improvising and does a lot more handymanish stuff than me.
Tried to talk my boyfriend into a 150g. He said no...He is supportive of the 5 tanks I have now, but doesn't want me to get anymore. He said I could use the money I was going to pay for the 150 for my current tanks and anything I wanted to do with them is fine. I think that is supportive. He does have hobbies of his own.
I'm with RTR.. my guy knew what he was getting into. My entire life seems to revolve around fish: internships at public aquariums, massive breeding in the basement during high school, growing up plants everywhere, blackworms in the fridge, ABS and cichild chow in the freezer, Ichthyology books and marine bio notebooks and ASIH's Copeia journals crowding my desk. Then I got SCUBA certified, started collecting marine tropicals and plants, learned to teach diving, took on research with zebrafish genetics and maintaining a research colony, and psychoticized about Finding Nemo almost every day for two months after it came out on DVD. (Oh, and I often do fish related things when we go on vacation.. "Hey hon, I hear there's a great LFS down the road from here.. I got some buckets we could take back plants or fish in.") The poor guy, we've only been dating two years and he's in deep. "Powers out Sarah, whats the drill again? Oh and the pinkish gooey things in the reef look like they're eating Bobert."
If only I can convince him to learn to dive (he barely snorkels, lest the 'blood thirsty' sharks find him too tasty) and to rinse out the blackworms before he feeds my babies. Oh and if I'm making a wishlist I'd like him to do all the copepod culturing, and the BBS growing too. Sheesh, soon he'll be asking for a paycheck!
>Sarah
My entire life seems to revolve around fish: internships at public aquariums, massive breeding in the basement during high school, growing up plants everywhere, blackworms in the fridge, ABS and cichild chow in the freezer, Ichthyology books and marine bio notebooks and ASIH's Copeia journals crowding my desk. Then I got SCUBA certified, started collecting marine tropicals and plants, learned to teach diving, took on research with zebrafish genetics and maintaining a research colony, and psychoticized about Finding Nemo almost every day for two months after it came out on DVD. (Oh, and I often do fish related things when we go on vacation.. "Hey hon, I hear there's a great LFS down the road from here.. I got some buckets we could take back plants or fish in.") The poor guy, we've only been dating two years and he's in deep. "Powers out Sarah, whats the drill again? Oh and the pinkish gooey things in the reef look like they're eating Bobert."If only I can convince him to learn to dive (he barely snorkels, lest the 'blood thirsty' sharks find him too tasty) and to rinse out the blackworms before he feeds my babies. Oh and if I'm making a wishlist I'd like him to do all the copepod culturing, and the BBS growing too. Sheesh, soon he'll be asking for a paycheck!
>Sarah
