我承认，我仍然是一个内心的大孩子。一年中的这个时候，我经常在许多方面表现出我个性的这一方面。在一年中的几乎所有时间里，我仍然很开心。我实际上很喜欢在内外装饰我的房子，但并不是很适合圣诞节的假期，购物，通常花费太多，甚至包裹我进行的所有购买，并找到了使所有这些都玩得开心的方法。
Earlier this year I discussed getting burned out on the hobby. So in an attempt at fair balance I want to talk this week about how to keep the fun in the hobby or how to bring fun back into the hobby. There are lots of ways to do this, and hopefully you will find something in this article that will help you to make keeping a tank more fun. If not, then hopefully this article and the accompanying pictures will at at least make you smile or laugh.
我发现带回或为业余爱好增添乐趣的第一条方法之一，我很长一段时间以来一直在做一个特别的礼物。我们都喜欢礼物，但是我已经达到了我难以购买的即使是不可能购买的地步。结果，在我得到其他所有人的礼物之后，如果我有足够的钱，我给自己买了一个基于爱好的礼物。
It may a special fish or coral or frag that I have had my eye on. One year it was a small school of Ochre striped cardinalfish that I had seen in shop’s display tank, which were inexpensive. Another year it was my Peppermint Hogfish. Both have brought me a lot of enjoyment, and unlike most of my purchases they were a bit spontaneous in nature. Usually I plan my purchases, but at this time of year it can be more fun if you get yourself something you didn’t expect to purchase. Of course I quarantined after I got them, but they were “fun” purchases.
If buying a present for yourself is not your thing you can do the next best thing and take you significant other or kids with you to the local shop or look online and give them some ideas of fish or corals, that you would appreciate getting as presents. I know these are not easy hide and keep you from unwrapping early, but it can give the people who are frustrated at finding you something you really want the “perfect gift” for you.
同样，它不必一定要昂贵，如果他们聪明，他们可以让您的商店持续到圣诞节前夕，然后将其交给您。这可以使他们觉得自己为您做了一些特别的事情。但是，如果您这样做，我强烈建议您确切地给他们一些您可能想要的想法，否则您可能会得到一些不适合您的坦克的东西，并且您将不得不在假期中保持活力，直到商店开放为止。
And if this happens it can dampen the spirits of whoever bought you the present. I once received a lionfish as a gift, and while it was a beautiful fish, it was not really the perfect present to add to my reef tank full of damsels, gobies and blennies.
If getting a new piece of livestock will not make the holiday and your tank more fun, perhaps getting yourself or having someone special get you a new piece of wanted equipment will make the season bright. Every year a lot of new equipment comes out starting in the Fall, so by now most of us have seen at least one or two things we would like to have, but have not gotten yet.
因此，再次破坏自己，并获得想要的新设备，或者更好的是，有一个真正想让您特别的东西为您提供的人。再次确切地说是告诉他们您想要什么，因为没人喜欢归还东西。而且，如果有人确实为您提供了新的设备，那么他们可以通过抬起他们来帮助您安装或使用它。
每个人都感觉更好，喜欢被包括在我们认为的乐趣中。因此，即使他们只是让您找到新的过滤袜或灯，也可以让他们与您一起将其放在坦克上。
您还可以通过获得他们想要的东西来进行反向，并使同伴的爱好者更有趣，尤其是当他们是新手的新手时。对于新的业余爱好者，除了为他们提供新的设备外，您还可以考虑获得书籍或杂志订阅，以帮助他们增加知识。我知道我们中很少有人阅读书籍，但是大多数新的业余爱好者都喜欢学习新事物，一本书或杂志可能有助于澄清事物，而不仅仅是查看互联网上的所有信息。
虽然得到东西或得到某人的东西已成为假期的重要组成部分，但新的一年通常也是我们尝试新事物的时候。因此，与保持或使业余爱好的乐趣有关，这也是一年中开始在业余爱好中开始新事物的好时机。对我来说，这意味着要设置坦克与我以前做过的任何人不同。
In the last few years to keep things fun I have set up a nano tank and also a planted freshwater tank. Even though both of these have been mainstays of the hobby I had never done either of these kinds of tanks so reading about them, planning them and then finally setting them up have kept things fun for me. In my mind I can think of all kinds of other tanks that would be fun to set up and that would be different from tanks I have done in the past. These include a tank full of non-photosynthetic corals, a seahorse tank, a paly and zooa tank, and an only captive bred tank to name some of my ideas.
Looking at the many beautiful and interesting tanks online can provide lots of ideas from the now becoming common, sps tank. Maybe because many of us are doing what seems like the same thing it would be a good time to set up a different tank. Setting up a different tank could not only cause us to have to learn all new rules, but at least to me, learning new things is fun in and of itself. So this may be another way to keep the hobby fresh and fun.
在过去的五十年中，关于我的爱好使我变得有趣的一件事是，尽管我们认为我们知道了多少，但总有一些新知识。至少对我来说，似乎一旦我们认为我们知道一切，就会发生一些新的事情会改变事物或使我们意识到我们仍然需要学习更多的事情。例如，当我们认为我们需要了解的有关钙的补充时，就是使用Kalkwasser。
Then along came the calcium reactor, the the multi-part dosing system, then the high-end calcium reactor, then an alkalinity/calcium monitor. While each was close to the previous system, each one required us to learn a little bit of new stuff and to me this keeps the hobby fun. Similarly, every year there seems to be a “hot” coral or group of corals that become the darlings of the hobby and we all want to have them.
它已经从Acroporas到Favias，再到Acans，再到澳大利亚的珊瑚，再到蒙蒂托拉斯，再到蘑菇，介于两者之间。虽然其中一些至少对我来说是一无所有，但新的东西使事情变得有趣而有趣。有趣的是，不仅看到了这些美丽的珊瑚，而且还必须了解它们，因为在高光和强势的过去的简单旧条件下，大多数人都不快乐。
在这个疯狂的季节中，大日子和所有的匆忙，我们当中有些人有几天的休息时间来放松和沮丧。在这段时间里，我经常尝试赶上我在坦克上忽略的东西。我了解到的是，当我执行您的任务时，我也试图找出使它们在将来更容易做到的方法。
我尝试这样做，因为这是我的经验，当我使它们更容易做时，我会更频繁地做它们，如果我真的做对了，我可以使它们“有趣”。好吧，有趣的是，有趣的是，当我做它们时，我不会咯咯笑或笑，但是从某种意义上说，如果我能迅速做到这一点，我可以花更多的时间去看和享受我的坦克，这很有趣。
这些调整可能与移动动力头一样简单，因此可以更容易清洁或修理或添加自动馈线，这使得每天喂养几次储罐的任务少了。您可以采取的措施使维护坦克更容易，最终都可以使您更加享受坦克，从而更加有趣。
During the holidays, a lot of us travel for a number of reasons. Most travel to visit relatives, but we can also travel to see holiday lights or decorations or we simply take a short vacation to get away. One of the ways to keep things fun that take advantage of this is to add a hobby portion to it and find something hobby related during the trip.
就我而言，即使在假期期间旅行时，我也尝试参观一家新商店或参观以前从未访问过的公共水族馆。我很幸运的是，如果我同意访问她想参观的购物中心或商店，那么我的其他重要其他人将做到这一点，因此妥协是关键。但是至少对我来说，即使不符合我的期望，也可以访问一家新商店。
Another way to keep things fun is to keep the kids or get the kids involved in the hobby. For Christmas you can get them a tank of their own or tell that one of your tanks is now their tank. I wish I had been more aggressive in getting my own kids involved in the hobby as now sadly none of them have any interest in it.
如果我变得更聪明，我会得到他们自己的坦克，让他们在它们上努力并建造它们，而不是试图控制它们而不是让他们学习。如果我变得更聪明，我会让他们学习和犯错，因为我认为这会帮助他们保持对爱好的兴趣，而不是我试图从一开始就使他们的坦克变得完美，而不是让他们失败。
最后，在一年中的这个时候，充满了庆祝活动和聚会，保持业余爱好乐趣的另一种方法是在周围举行聚会。如果您有一个坦克，您特别自豪地邀请您在您附近的爱好中有一些朋友坐下来坐下来享受它并谈论爱好。您可以谈论您将它带到这一点上以及您在此过程中发现的任何“秘密”。
根据我自己的经验，我举行的最大的爱好相关聚会是我举行了“储罐聚会”。当我建造并设置我的1200加仑坦克时，我发现我需要比我最初想象的更多的人来做。结果，我从各种背景和儿子的高中朋友中邀请了我的6个朋友。后者有必要帮助将旧的储罐移出，然后帮助将更大的新玻璃面板放入适当的位置。
我发现的一件事是，一旦成功建造了坦克，就有许多人聚集在一起为一个派对产生了良好的条件。如果您决定建造一个大型坦克，甚至只是设置一个坦克并让您的朋友过来帮助，应该考虑几件事。首先，邀请尽可能多的业余爱好者甚至其他朋友提供帮助。
I say this as I have found that if you leave people out and they find out you did this they feel hurt. For some reason, people seem to enjoy working on this kind of project, even if they are not in the hobby. Second invite as many as you can because as was the case with me I found out that many of my friends had skills that I never knew they had.
虽然我邀请了我的两个医生的朋友，一位是牙医，另一个是出售电子产品的朋友，但我不知道一个是木匠大师，他建造了框架以将玻璃固定在适当的位置。一个人曾是水管工的工作，并为管道设计提供了帮助，另一个人与玻璃化合物一起工作，他非常宝贵，因为他知道如何与大型玻璃一起工作，甚至带上了大吸杯，因此我们可以轻松地移动玻璃杯。
好像自己建造坦克还不够有趣，一旦我们完成了，我们就爆出了啤酒并命令，然后真正的聚会爆发了。不用说，至少对我来说，这对每个人来说都是很有趣的，并为业余爱好者和非旅行者带来了乐趣。
If you are not having as much fun with the hobby as you think you should or as you had in the past, I strongly urge you to do some of the activities mentioned above. To all of my readers, Happy Holidays and I hope you all get what you want and more importantly get to enjoy the holidays with the ones you love. Merry Christmas everyone.
