"Sacrifices" on the road to "success?"

[Tannin Aquatics]

The aquarium hobby is just that- a hobby. However, unlike many hobbies, it’s engrossing, all-encompassing, almost obsession-inducing for a lot of people. Many aquarists invest enormous amounts of time, money, and themselves into creating and maintaining tropical fish. 

 

It’s almost scary to the outsider, yet interestingly, just “par for the course” to a fish geek! This enormous resource expenditure often leads to rewards for you as a hobbyist, but only after a surprisingly large number of early-on “sacrifices”, right?

Ever looked at it from this kind of perspective? It’s kind of interesting, if not a bit scary! For example, look at the basics on this “list” of stuff you give up: (click to read more)