Re: [GSAS-Member] Anyone ever breed emperor tetras?

[Kate Breimayer <kate@munat.com>]

Hi,
Thanks everyone for your support, I guess I should clarify. I did 
something bad to my back, and herniated disks in my neck. Probably ditto 
on the back. The back is probably from lifting buckets of water and 
kritter keepers of killifish but I am not sure, I did do catering for a 
few years. I have been trying to downsize the hobby for several reasons, 
one is probably will have to have at least one surgery, another is it's 
expensive, not just the club dues but the feeds and replacing leaky 
tanks, the minute details like light bulbs, airstones, etc all add up 
fast. Especially now that I am into marine fish tanks too! I didn't know 
for sure if I was allowed to be on this list if I didn't pay dues but 
figured that is the way it goes. Thanks for offering to let me stay. My 
other reasons were that I spend lots of time on the computer and it is 
worse on my neck/back, and I get all these great ideas from 
participating in chat lists, like setting up the new brackish tank when 
I should be downsizing, buying new fish or getting free rescues, 
grabbing up good deals on ebay, here I am "downsizing" and I have 
reduced the quantity of easy care killifish but added a whole zoo of new 
types of fish that I rescued from the store I work at! We have kids that 
can do that, I should be giving the rescues to them. Overall I am 
finding that being on the computer checking out new fish, learning about 
new equipment, and meeting new breeders plus working at the fish store 
is a little like trying to quit drugs while dealing them :) So I every 
so often figure I need to drop the chatting and get off my butt and 
empty some tanks, or consolidate the residents. My vision is lousy, I 
can barely read the computer screen and that doesn't help either. Can't 
read street signs so I can't make the meetings. It's a drag. I couldn't 
even find I-5 from the aquarium half the time when we were at the old 
location.
So it's more than the dues issue, I just really need to bite the bullet 
and pull back from being a fishaholic. If I have surgery and my 
boyfriend is responsible for caring for the fish while I recover they 
will ALL need rescuing by the end of it  He tries but he thinks it's 
nice to give them extra bloodworms because they like them so much... 
bloat...
So I guess I will hang out on the list, but will try and not write such 
long emails. See, I am already back to writing long emails. That didn't 
last long. Better cut this off.
One more thing-if you are into this hobby get a python. Best $40 I every 
spent! Thought I could do water changes with buckets. Yeah, that $40 was 
spent too late. Now I will have to also have a surgery that could run 
$150,000.00 and I have met other aquarists with the same conclusion. One 
guy told me to throw away any bucket that holds more than 2.5 gallons of 
water and you will never be tempted to use a 5 gallon bucket just once 
when you are in a hurry.
Thanks,
Kate

Erik Olson wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Kate Breimayer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > How do we unsubscribe from this list? I am not going to renew the 
> > membership with the club this year.  This economy and bad health has 
> > pretty much ground my hobby down to where I can't afford it any more.
>
>
> 'course we never made it a requirement that you had to be a member to 
> be subscribed to the list... (yes, I know, the title of the list is 
> "gsas-MEMBER").
>
>   - Erik
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