TomK2
Aquarium Advice Addict
.....life has brought me back to this forum at a time I am on the cusp! Life, family, and work have conspired to make me ignore many things, including AA. Four tanks have dwindled to one, while children grow and furry pets get most of the attention. A community tank, once thriving, has been reduced to a pleco, a tetra or two, a loach, and a guppy. The loach was a clandestine stow away on a plant, and the guppy was once meant as food for a spiny eel now long gone. How ironic that two fish that were not prized, have out-survived so many others. Gone are the pearl Angels (once my pride and joy), the Platies, the Cories, and the Danios. I maintain the tank, and provide a good home as the residents grow old and pass on. But there have been no recent trips to the LFS, no new bags of joy floating about for quite some time.
So I change the water, scrape the algae, drop in some food, and contemplate. Would my desk be better off on that wall where my tank now stands? Perhaps a book shelf? A nice chair to sit in and read?
Or perhaps it is time to rekindle the flame? To remake the tank anew, go in a new direction. Such is the ebb and flow of the aquarium hobby. Starting, stopping, and starting again over the years.
So, should it be Cichlids? A single species tank of active rascals like Tiger Barbs? Or perhaps the soothing red an blue of a Neon Tetra school? Or just a patch of wall that needs a fresh coat of paint?
So I change the water, scrape the algae, drop in some food, and contemplate. Would my desk be better off on that wall where my tank now stands? Perhaps a book shelf? A nice chair to sit in and read?
Or perhaps it is time to rekindle the flame? To remake the tank anew, go in a new direction. Such is the ebb and flow of the aquarium hobby. Starting, stopping, and starting again over the years.
So, should it be Cichlids? A single species tank of active rascals like Tiger Barbs? Or perhaps the soothing red an blue of a Neon Tetra school? Or just a patch of wall that needs a fresh coat of paint?