Most Expensive Hobby’s Besides Fish Keeping?

[FF_Member146894]

there is no hobby more expensive than fishkeeping because there's always a bigger tank

 

[Dajuyu]

Yes it's expensive and maintenance itself will eat up your wallet heck even to the ground.

But one thing for sure it makes work for all the cleaning and the tidying up. You got to remember that you are maintaining a whole eco system by it's own and if that's not rewarding I don't know what will.
So yeah self rewarding in the end of the day is just priceless.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

Yes it's expensive and maintenance itself will eat up your wallet heck even to the ground.

But one thing for sure it makes work for all the cleaning and the tidying up. You got to remember that you are maintaining a whole eco system by it's own and if that's not rewarding I don't know what will.
So yeah self rewarding in the end of the day is just priceless.

Not sure about how maintaining a well-balanced ecosystem can become expensive?
Electricity, food and water conditioner are my only costs.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

Oooops...forgot my water bill.

 

[Dajuyu]

Oooops...forgot my water bill.

Not to mention water conditioner filter maintenance, plants maintenance, those are just tip of the costs.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Not sure about how maintaining a well-balanced ecosystem can become expensive?

Then you’ve never added up what it costs to run a saltwater tank, even a nano. I’m talking test kits (replacement fluids because we go through them so fast), salt, food (both dry and frozen), liquid 2 part dosing, calibration fluid, etc. etc.

 

[otterblue]

I used to have a poison dart frog vivarium (plan to again) and that was fairly expensive in the beginning. I think my most expensive hobby, oddly, is making model airplanes.

 

[otterblue]

Does anyone skydive or scuba dive?

I've skydived (skydove?). I haven't scuba dived because my instructor yelled at me when I accidentally dropped my regulator in the water and it gave me temporary anxiety. I did snorkel with reef sharks in the Bahamas, though. That was cool.

 

[Happilyretired]

I don’t do much fishing, but I once caught a fish with one of those little Disney princess children’s rods, a hook, and no bait. It must’ve swam too close to the hook, because it was caught by its side

when my first grandson was two, I bought him a blues clues rod and reel. Every day, I’d take him to the lake to fish and I’d spray air freshener on the hook so no fish would go near it. But, as luck would have it, he caught a little perch and I was too upset to take it off the hook. I called everyone whose number was in my contact list and finally got the mayor to come and take the fish off and release it back into the lake. The hook was like pulling on its little lip. Needless to say, I learned how to take fish off of hooks using a pair of rubber gloves.

 

[OliveFish05]

when my first grandson was two, I bought him a blues clues rod and reel. Every day, I’d take him to the lake to fish and I’d spray air freshener on the hook so no fish would go near it. But, as luck would have it, he caught a little perch and I was too upset to take it off the hook. I called everyone whose number was in my contact list and finally got the mayor to come and take the fish off and release it back into the lake. The hook was like pulling on its little lip. Needless to say, I learned how to take fish off of hooks using a pair of rubber gloves.

Awwwwww. I bet your grandson was very excited though! I don’t know how to take a fish off the hook, hours of my dad, grandpa, and uncles trying to get turtles off hooks scarred me. The scariest time I’ve ever had to free/release an animal from something was this one time i got a whole coconut at the grocery store. I wanted to cut a hole in it to make it a hide for my parakeet, Wink. I was drilling the hole on the side of it, and my dog, Griffin, was sitting patiently beside me. All of a sudden he lunged and grabbed the coconut, right as I was putting the drill down to keep drilling. It caught up in his ear and started pulling on the fur. He started screaming so I started screaming, my sister started yelling random things, my mom started yelling “are you ok! Are you ok!” As she came running up from the koi pond. I turned the drill on reverse and it freed his fur. We were all shaky and I decided to just throw the coconut away. Griff was ok, it just ripped some fur off of his ear, but we thought we had drilled into his head!

 

[Fishmanic]

model building
750 pc wooden 3D Working Car puzzle (has working doors, steering, suspension, transmission, opening hood and trunk, moving pistons, wipers, roll up windows
535 pc wooden 3d Working train puzzle..working pistons, moving wheels, movie linkage, transmission, gearing, etc
200 pc treasure Box 3D puzzle
Chris Craft barrelback wooden boat model
several metal earth miniature models..ultra tiny parts

Here is the car puzzle--parts come on flat laser cut plywood sheets. Over 20 hours assembly time.

Train puzzle

Ugears Treasure Box

Also a Pennsylvania Flyer Lionel bluetooth Train Diorama with several ceramic diners and gas station with a Route 66 theme, electroluminecent billbords

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Train setup with several ceramic diners and gas station with a Route 66 theme

That sounds cool! Pics?

I think my most expensive hobby, oddly, is making model airplanes.

Static or flying? I was really into plastic model planes when I was in high school/college. Got pretty good at making them realistic. Just recently bought myself a model A-10 for a winter project. It'll be the first one I've done in probably 30 years or so. Decided my garage-workshop needed a fighter plane.

I've skydived (skydove?).

I believe "skydiven" is the word you're looking for.

 

[Fishmanic]

 

[otterblue]

That sounds cool! Pics?

Static or flying? I was really into plastic model planes when I was in high school/college. Got pretty good at making them realistic. Just recently bought myself a model A-10 for a winter project. It'll be the first one I've done in probably 30 years or so. Decided my garage-workshop needed a fighter plane.

I believe "skydiven" is the word you're looking for.

Static only. No pics worth showing, I'm not that great, although I do enjoy it. I do 1/72 scale WWII planes. The A-10 is a great looking plane and one of the non-WWII planes I'd consider doing. I'm thinking of going back to 1/48 scale because nowadays the selection for that scale is better. It's amazing how advanced the kits/tools have become over the past two decades. I'm glad you got back into it. It's an enjoyable hobby.

 

[Happilyretired]

What do people do on here apart from fish keeping?

most expensive hobby wins a really cool none existant made up prize!

I am a rock and fossil hound. I don’t buy fossils or rocks, I go find them and that’s what cost so much money. My favorite fossil a huge blob of dinosaur **** and a lovely fossilized fish skeleton. I’ve hunted in every state in the us, China, the Middle East, and New Zealand. I also have large pieces of fossilized coral. Here in Arkansas, I’ve mined for crystals, amethysts, and quartz. The last few years, I take my grandchildren And watch their excitement finding cool rocks. I also sew and garden but not so much a hobby but how I was raised.