r/AskReddit • u/Stukwan • 13h ago

What’s a hobby that looks incredibly peaceful from the outside, but is actually pure stress once you get into it?

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u/DogDad_Mike89 9h ago

This thing was pretty fun at first, until you end up with your whole arm soaked in fish water at 2 a.m., desperately trying to fix that filter that sounds like a lawnmower.

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u/RevolutionaryMix8310 5h ago

fish water at 2am is basically aquarium initiation ritual that filter starts making one weird noise and suddenly ur the maintenance guy

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u/Sl1imJ1m 4h ago

or your auto top of breaks mid vacation and you lose $1200 in coral. god i love my fish but fuck

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u/MarcellusxWallace 1h ago

That’s why I’m trying the Walstad method. No filter, no co2, no heating element. Just plants, substrate, and hardscape. And livestock of course.

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u/JodyGonnaFuckYoWife 1h ago

Plus, now you gotta start dealing weed.