I realize that many of us take our aquarium keeping very seriously, but we have to put it in context and remember that it is just a hobby. A hobby, by definition, is something that gives us pleasure, not something that is necessarily important (except, of course, to us and our fish and corals).
实际上，他们甚至都不我们的fish and corals. Most are wild creatures that we decided to “help” by rescuing them from the sea, housing them in fake water, feeding them foods that they never saw in nature, and illuminating them artificially while providing a vastly different water movement system and forcing them to live with creatures from the other side of the planet whom they’ve never met.
Between the aquarium and the deep blue sea
除此之外，我们喜欢我们所做的事情，我们中的一些人确实非常擅长。实际上，我们“救出”的许多鱼类在我们的护理中的寿命比在海中更长。如果有选择的话，我不确定鱼是否想留在海中还是与我们一起生活，因为我们当中的一些人在坦克的景观中观看了真人秀电视。谁知道鱼甚至喜欢真人秀电视？我的意思是“与星星一起跳舞”不应该兴奋鱼，因为它们没有腿。我认为国家地理渠道将是一个更好的选择。另外，有些人认为是自由主义者或保守的，但是鱼呢？我不确定鱼会如何投票。哪个聚会是哪个鱼？
与他们的野生对应物相反，我们护理中的鱼类容易受到我们缺乏运动所致的苦难。多年前，我父亲是一名海鲜小贩，每天他走过布鲁克林桥，推动了一个装满新鲜鱼，甲壳类动物和冰的非常沉重的手推车。我只是走到冰箱，拿起虾鸡尾酒。在此之前，我们的伟大，伟大，伟大，伟大等。祖父如果想吃的话，必须倒下游戏。他们状况良好。但是，现在我们可以将300马力，3,000磅重的汽车驶向麦当劳，并带着一小部分牛开车去，这是其他人抓住并制成切碎的肉的牛。
鱼in the sea have a hard time finding food and often have to swim after it and then fight with it while simultaneously fending off other would-be predators that either want to steal their meal or eat他们. This happens to wild fish at almost every meal, but in our tanks, they kind of float there, waiting for someone to squirt some food in their face at about the same time every day. That’s how they feed supermodels; they just spray some chicken soup into their face once or twice a day.
像我们一样，鱼类有肌肉，尽管我不是鱼力量训练师，但我认为它们的肌肉萎缩就像我们不使用的那样。我认为，如果我们将鱼释放到海中（please don’t!), they wouldn’t make it ten minutes, as all the rest of the fish (after making fun of them for being in such terrible shape) would be flying past them from all angles to catch prey.
没有比赛
我们中的许多人试图acc忽略我们omplish by yearning for the best tank, in which everything grows and spawns, corals grow up the walls, and we can have the honor of Tank of the Month or Post of the Month or just Something, Anything of the Month. But this thought is completely wrong. This is not a competition, and there is no end game. I know because I have been doing this for over 60 years and I am still not done. We try desperately to get to the point where we’ve won, where everything is perfect, but if we think like that, we are sure to be disappointed.
水族馆保持就像航行。当您乘坐帆船时，通常甚至没有目的地。这是航行that is the fun. If we actually get anywhere, that is great, but then if we needed to be somewhere, would we really jump into a very expensive sailboat that goes maybe four miles per hour in a good wind and splashes us every five minutes? I mean really.
It’s called “aquarium keeping,” not “aquarium finishing” because we will never be finished. It is the ride, the act of keeping these colorful and expensive little creatures alive that is the thrill. And keeping them alive is only part of the fun.换水，清洁玻璃，测试，剂量，重新贴上我们的经历也是乐趣的一部分。即使某事死了 - 是的，即使发生了东西，我们也可以在弄清楚发生了什么时找到满足感。如果什么都没有死，我们会称其为邮票收集。现在这是一个刺激。
Challenges are part of the fun
所以什么时候cyanobacteria，，，，藻类，flat虫，ICH或其他许多问题都会出现，为体验感到高兴，不要将其视为一场灾难。龙卷风是一场灾难，地震是一场灾难，获得一磅的超模是一场灾难，但是鱼缸中发生的事情并不是一场灾难。这只是这种美好的爱好的一部分，这是一种使我们快乐的爱好。
I’ve enjoyed this fantastic hobby every day of my long life, and I will keep doing it until they put me in a nursing home. It has helped me through hard mental times and just boring times. Sometimes I spend days on end “working” on the tank, and sometimes weeks go by where I barely have time to feed the fish. I have had large die offs and constant spawning. But I’ve savored all those times and have never been disappointed. You can put whatever you want into this hobby, and I’ve loved every minute of it!
