Tropical burnout

[wolfie33]

Hi all
At the moment i'm going through a bit of a burnout with tropical fish.
Back in 93 i setup my new marine tank as well a keeping two tropical tanks, soon after i lost all interest in tropicals and solely dedicated time to my marine tank,but after i moved that had to go.
in 96 i got my motivation back for tropicals and got myself a community tank and two breeding setups then last year 03 i got myself a new marine setup again.
Now i'm finding myself less interested in the tropicals and more dedicated again to marine's and i was wondering have any of you guy's ever been through this?
I suppose i could just plod on through it in the hope i get my spark back with the tropicals.
I guess its like when a preist loses his faith because now when i look at them i just see dull fish and when i look to the other side of the room at my marine setup WOW!

 

[Blusypder]

hrm..... i only have i tank going right now. but i seem more intrested in my 100 gal that is not running than in my 10 gal that is. lol

it happen like that when i got my animals not like set up but more intrested in the newer pet

3 dogs - Spot(dalmation), Babe(begal), Sweetheart(mut)
3 birds - Tookey (cockatiel), Squal(cockatiel), Ebon(peachface love bird)
btw....ebon is philippino for bird
and my fish

 

[Stryker]

Perhaps regarding the tropical tanks you ought to make them as easy to maintain as possible? IE buy a pump so when you do water changes draining and refilling is as effort free as possible. Stock your FW tanks with more cleaners IE amano shrimp etc.....

Then when your tank takes minimum effort to maintain there is no excuse for getting rid of such a beautiful thing that is the little mini eco system sitting in your room.

Just my thoughts.

 

[Stryker]

I just re-read your last paragraph.... why not increase the diversity of your inhabitants? Buy some odball fish.... I know dwarf puffer keepers will flame me for this but depending on your stocking why not add a couple of DPs? or maybe instead look into FW invertibrates, there are plenty to choose from.

 

[wolfie33]

Your right
I think it all started when i lost about 4 fish to a breeding pair of kribs who's agression has been worse than normal.Wheras i have never lost such an amount of fish in such a short time and i think that was the catalyst to make me feel uninterested.
At the present moment i have vacated 3 tanks and have them now sitting empty when once they were an active breeding ground and i now only have one community going.
The funny thing is i can watch a tropical tank with more interest than a marine but at the moment it's like STRYKER said water changes feel like torture and so forth.

But i'll still keep on coming on here looking for new idea's that will spark me up again.

CHEERS FOLKS

 

[CFC]

I think we all go through phases of becoming bored with our fish and fancying a change, there are two ways to deal with this IMO, the first is to buy another tank and set it up as something completely different, if you have a community tank then trying a biotope which requires you to research the fish and plants and decor that are found in the area you have chosen to recreate and sticking to it is a good way to regenerate some enthusiasm. The second if you cannot set up a new tank is to return all your fish to the store and start again with a empty tank, some people will think of this as harsh but its better that the fish be returned rather than sit in a neglected tank which is what all to often happens when interest in fish wains. Over the years i have kept many fish which over time have become less interesting and i have sold them on or donated them to public aquariums to make room for new fish which i have taken a interest in, i have enjoyed the experience of keeping the fish and watching them grow and have then passed them on for someone else to enjoy.

 

[Cat]

I think we all go through phases of becoming bored with our fish and fancying a change, there are two ways to deal with this IMO, the first is to buy another tank and set it up as something completely different, if you have a community tank then trying a biotope which requires you to research the fish and plants and decor that are found in the area you have chosen to recreate and sticking to it is a good way to regenerate some enthusiasm. The second if you cannot set up a new tank is to return all your fish to the store and start again with a empty tank, some people will think of this as harsh but its better that the fish be returned rather than sit in a neglected tank which is what all to often happens when interest in fish wains. Over the years i have kept many fish which over time have become less interesting and i have sold them on or donated them to public aquariums to make room for new fish which i have taken a interest in, i have enjoyed the experience of keeping the fish and watching them grow and have then passed them on for someone else to enjoy.

If I get a new big tank cfc pass me all your big ones, you don't want don't give them ryan,he is out to beat you .

 

[wolfie33]

CFC i think you maybe right.
I may try a biotope but i will have to stick with the one where the kribs are present because as i have said a few times kribs are my main line of credit at my lfs.
So before i do my long stint of research what other fish go in a biotope where kribs are present.

 

[CFC]

Some suitable fish that would be found in the same areas as kribs would be African butterfly fish, Pantadon buchholzi; African glass catfish, Eutropiellus buffei; African red eyed tetra, Arnoldichthys spilopterus; Ornate Ctenopoma Ctenopoma ansorgii, and there are many more if you search through a few sites and books.

The trouble with african biotopes is that there are very few aquarium suitable true African aquatic plants with Anubias species and ferns such as Ceratropteris cornuta and Bolbitis heudelotii being the only ones i have seen available with any regularity.

 

[nemery]

meh

its all hormonal