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What makes you discouraged ?

Jing are you legally a midget? Does your license have any special markings indicating your shortness? If so, will you share? lol ;)

In height, not the actual growth deficiency. Even if I did have any "special markings" I wouldnt really share that time of information lol.
 
Another thing that is discouraging is the wife saying no to a upgrade. :(

Doesn't she know I need more room for all the corals I want. LOL
 
Another thing that is discouraging is the wife saying no to a upgrade. :(

Doesn't she know I need more room for all the corals I want. LOL

Well it's the opposite for me I get married in dec after that I get the green light to what ever I want im thinking 180 not sure yet and sump in basement :):):):)
 
Probably the thing that makes me most discouraged in this hobby is life outside of the hobby. Being that reefkeeping is exactly that, a "hobby" (more a lifestyle in some cases lol) it comes second to a lot of things in life. In my case, multiple moves and situations where i have been forced to break my tank down just when it starts to really take off has been the most depressing thing about having a tank. I dream of the day when i have my own residence where i can set up a tank and just have it be, no need to move it or curtail my endeavors because of other's guidelines, the ability to plan and organize my tank the way i want it to be, as a long lasting fixture rather than a temporary facility until it is time to move to the next one. I cannot fathom how my tank would have looked had i been able to sustain it in one place, and i try not to think about it either lol.
 
I feel bad for all you guys who wives won't let you upgrade your tanks etc. Xavier and I are going to have the biggest tank we can possibly have with plumbing, sump, frag tank etc in the basement. There will defiantly be no fights about that, after being together for almost five years saltwater is always an agreement lol like he said can't wait till the tank is out of my parents house and in our own house. Hopefully very soon!
 
Well it's the opposite for me I get married in dec after that I get the green light to what ever I want im thinking 180 not sure yet and sump in basement :):):):)

Says the guy who isn't married yet, lol. :) Ah I remember those days and my reallocated boat fund.
 
No longer having a wife to keep me in check with impulse buying. Seriously, I just bought a 105 gallon tank and radion pros to put in my 1 bedroom apt (granted its a 900+ sq ft apt) but still the money spent could of been better allocated elsewhere. However, the plus side is that it's keeping my mind busy with finalizing my divorce and not seeing my four year old daughter as much (every other weekend). My daughter is the reason why I stated the tank back up again. She loves fish and I wonder where she got that from?

I digress.. settling on an aquascape then changing it again only to like it the other way better while stressing my tank out with moving stuff.
 
Well it's the opposite for me I get married in dec after that I get the green light to what ever I want im thinking 180 not sure yet and sump in basement :):):):)

Says the guy who isn't married yet, lol. :) Ah I remember those days and my reallocated boat fund.

My thoughts exactly!! LOL

Bachelor = 125 gallon full blown reef, trips to the LFS every Tuesday & Friday
Married = 25 gallon cube with "hardy" fish & DBTC frags
 
Discouraging: Finding a pompom crab we though we had lost in 2009. . . on the floor, dead, in our fish room. Looking at our 2012 coral list, compiled when we were setting up the big tank, and realizing that several of the pieces we lost in the last year can't be replaced. Watching the porites on a christmas tree worm colony die, and the worms grow, delicate skeleton exposed, and the lineatus wrasses picks them off. Watching an anthia thrive in our FRAG TANK with our PURPLE TANG, while the same species of anthia in our DT withers away. Getting a call from a friend warning us that we may have gotten AEF from a vendor at MACNA, dipping when the corals arrive, and finding AEF for the THIRD TIME in LESS THAN A YEAR. Buying a fish and finding it dried out, on top of our cover the next day, and not having any idea how it got out.

Encouraging: realizing that the tiny little brown acro frag I put in the DT is encrusted and coloring up. Dipping acros and finding no AEF, no bite marks, and no eggs. Watching a browned out darth maul porites turn hot pink again. Watching a sad colony of scroll coral that I thought was skeleton start to grow over and color up again. Reading an article on grafting porites, buying a small porites colony to graft on to a colony of christmas tree worms, and having the donor colony settle well into the tank. Buying bergia nudibranchs and having aptasia in the DT disappear.
 
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