The Money Pit
I have a money pit.
I think everyone has one.
Mine is my husbands doing.
He has a saltwater fish tank.
The tank did fine in the beginning and looked fantastic.
Somewhere along the line his tank got red and green algae.
So, for about three years now, it has looked like crap with all the algae, has 1 fish, and he keeps sinking money into it.
Every couple weeks we pick up water for the tank. Special Water. This special water costs about $25 for (3) 5 gallon jugs.
So, let’s say he only picks up these 3 jugs once a month (although, I think it is a little more frequent than that). That is $300 a year!
Not to mention all the crap he has been buying for 3 years to try and make it go away, all the money he has sunk into the old fish and new fish only to die, etc.
If you have a Money Pit, tell me what yours is.
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Haha! Sorry to laugh, but we used to have a Koi pond. My husband hand dug it for me for my first Mother's day (with no research into it). Really sweet because I told him that I wanted one someday.
We bought about 6 fish for it. After the first week, I never saw them again. Not because they died, because of the algae.
He then started to research. He bought plants and pumps and filters. Still no sight of the fish.
He does some face to face research and comes to find it will cost $1000s a year to up keep a koi pond.
For my next Mother's Day present, he filled in the koi pond. :)
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Great post! We used to have a salt water tank too....very similar experience, but didn't seem quite as funny as yours. hehehe
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Thanks for stopping by...if you think your fishtank is a money pit...try owning a swimming pool!
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Well... I might have had a salt water fish tank money pit too! I'd nixed the idea for the time being because I learned it takes a lot of time to maintain but I don't know if I can bring myself to several hundred a year on fish water HAHA!
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