Am I The Only One..? Watching Aquarium

Hey guys I am just curious but am I the only one who really enjoys to sit in front of their tank and just look at my fish for a little bit and just relax? Let me know!

 

Hey guys I am just curious but am I the only one who really enjoys to sit in front of their tank and just look at my fish for a little bit and just relax? Let me know!

I am cycling a 20 gallon tall presently and even though it is not cycled yet and doesn't have fish in it yet either I still sit in my dining room and stair at it sometimes. Seems to relax me quite a bit with the beer too. At least I am staying out of trouble

 

I am cycling a 20 gallon tall presently and even though it is not cycled yet and doesn't have fish in it yet either I still sit in my dining room and stair at it sometimes. Seems to relax me quite a bit with the beer too. At least I am staying out of trouble

Hahaha yes amen to that!!! I love looking at my tank! Especially with a nice cold beer hehe

 

Setting all laughs aside. It was advised by one of my Dr's to pick the hobby up to help with my high blood pressure. Pretty amazing something so simple can really improve someones health. I am living proof of it, Without medication just lots of relaxation. Hey what ever works for some of us right.

 

Setting all laughs aside. It was advised by one of my Dr's to pick the hobby up to help with my high blood pressure. Pretty amazing something so simple can really improve someones health. I am living proof of it, Without medication just lots of relaxation. Hey what ever works for some of us right.

Exactly and hey I am glad that you are doing better. That makes me happy

 

I usually watch mine instead of the tv.

 

I rarely watch TV these days. There is too much going on in the tanks.

 

Watching my fish tank is one of my favorite ways to relax and fall asleep. Sometimes I like to read a book and listen to the trickling and relax that way. My fish tank is very calming to me.

 

Exactly why I keep a planted nano on my desk!

 

Yep me too. But usually when I'm buzzed. I just sit on the floor and stare and take many photos. Lol.

 

My tank is right next to the TV and often while we are 'watching tv' it turns out we are actually distracted by what the Panda Cories are doing in the tank. My husband gives me updates as to what is happening in the tank in his man cave as well. So yes, we spend a significant amount of time daily watching our fish.

 

Hey guys I am just curious but am I the only one who really enjoys to sit in front of their tank and just look at my fish for a little bit and just relax? Let me know!

Yes, I love to watch the tank. We barely turn the tv on at all. Someone is always doing something in the tank, whether it's playing tag or cories being goofy.

 

I take my recliner that's facing the TV and turn it around and turn the TV off and my favorite beverage in hand ( Heineken ) and always kick back and admire my tanks and all its inhabitants.. u enjoy the sound of the filters over the babble that's going on on TV any day of the week

 

I'll add something,. Watching my tanks makes me get up and make adjustments. It makes me fiddle, try to improve and do things. I appreciate that too. If I am sitting watching TV, there is no interaction. I sit there and receive, passively. Watching a tank makes me problem solve almost every time.

 

When I was single I had a 160 gallon tank for my bed headboard, and had many relaxing times and met lots of new friends watching it.

 

I love to watch Uncle Sam, Liberty and Justice! It calms me. Except when Uncle Sam tries to take the food (or zucchinI in this case) and hog it all for himself.

 

As mentioned, recliner, good music and the aquarium. In the AM with the coffee and Fishlore and the PM just relaxing after a hectic day. My viewing is a stress reliever. Also what TV, the family enjoys the tank viewing more. I am so thankful I took up this hobby. Better than the meds they try to prescribe.

 

It took me 9 months to get a tank set up where I can watch it from my couch. I sit and stare at it while drinking my coffee in the am (while checking fishlore like someone said), I check on them several times a day (don’t work), and now I get to sit with the hubby while he watches tv. I’ll read on my iPad and watch the tank.
My electrician came by one day and noticed my 38. He told me he had a client once with a big tank. He asked why. She sat him in a chair and said “just watch them”. He said after a minute or two he could feel himself just relax. Said he never thought that could happen by just watching some fish! So even non-fishkeepers can feel it!
Agree with the tweaking too.

 

Who wouldn't enjoy watching their fish in the tank?

 

I have a recliner next to my 55 gallon planted, nothing like a good book and some tank watching. ( And a Cold Beer)

 

What's the point of having a fish tank and not watching your fish?
I spend hours a day watching my fish. When my tank was empty just sitting on the stand with just sand, I would still look at it. My friend's would give me a look like I was crazy. All I could see was the fish swimming in my fank.
Watching my tanks calms me down, clears my mind, helps with my depression and anxiety, also as NavigatorBlack mentioned, I am able to organize thoughts, and problem solve.
My wife gets a kick out of watching me fiddle around with my tank. Also she is starting to appreciate the calming affects aquariums can have, and she sometimes beats me to the light switch on the tank, and the best viewing angle....front of the tank.

 

I love sitting next to my tank while working on homework and projects. It helps me to relax, especially when one of my cats is curled up on my lap.

 

There's actually a study on this. A person watching a fish tank lowers stress levels. And this is better than people watching a video or picture of an aquarium. One in real life has shown to lower stress.

So, zen on, I guess

 

My husband says that my fish tanks are my "zen moment "

After a rough day or just a busy morning getting kids to school I sit and stare into the tank and calm down

If things really stress me out I do water changes or rescape a bit

I often catch myself in time of stress staring into whichever tank is in eyesight

 

It took me 9 months to get a tank set up where I can watch it from my couch. I sit and stare at it while drinking my coffee in the am (while checking fishlore like someone said), I check on them several times a day (don’t work), and now I get to sit with the hubby while he watches tv. I’ll read on my iPad and watch the tank.
My electrician came by one day and noticed my 38. He told me he had a client once with a big tank. He asked why. She sat him in a chair and said “just watch them”. He said after a minute or two he could feel himself just relax. Said he never thought that could happen by just watching some fish! So even non-fishkeepers can feel it!
Agree with the tweaking too.

We know you run the house, so you do work and have a job,
My wife don't have a job, she takes care of the house, the company books and banking and all the animals, except the fish I tend to them.
So she has a harder job then I do, it's just at the house.

 

We know you run the house, so you do work and have a job,
My wife don't have a job, she takes care of the house, the company books and banking and all the animals, except the fish I tend to them.
So she has a harder job then I do, it's just at the house.

True! I drive 80+ miles a day shuttling kids to/from school, plus any errands, try to cook dinner more nights than not, the laundry and dishes don’t do themselves, and today I removed wallpaper in a hallway and bedroom to prepare to texture and paint.
But I don’t leave to go to work, so I can stop at a tank whenever I want

 

My goldfish are near my bed, where I spend most of my time when I'm not at work, so I watch them a lot.

And they watch me. Whenever they see movement, they ram into the glass and beg beg beg. I like eating right in front of them on their fast days.

 

When I have suicidal thoughts I just look at my tanks and all of them go away. It makes me sad to think if I didn't have fish with me. The stress relief from watching an aquarium is just so strangely satisfying

 

I rarely watch TV these days. There is too much going on in the tanks.

I know what you mean seems like just about every channel these days is either about politics and or someone got killed or something else bad happen to someone. Pretty scary out there sometimes in this big old world that we all share and that we all live in.

 

I know what you mean seems like just about every channel these days is either about politics and or someone got killed or something else bad happen to someone. Pretty scary out there sometimes in this big old world that we all share and that we all live in.

Not to mention cartoon network going downhill

 

Not to mention cartoon network going downhill

Yeah most of it is trash now bad words after bad words all the time now days. What a terrible example for kids many of them are now days. What ever happen to speed racer lol

I love to watch Uncle Sam, Liberty and Justice! It calms me. Except when Uncle Sam tries to take the food (or zucchinI in this case) and hog it all for himself.

By the way he sure is beautiful. First time I saw him I thought you posted a bird picture I know right lol. Just look at those big huge fins looks pretty awesome. Makes me want to consider maybe owning one of my own just in a 10 gallon tank.

 

I have a missing piece of zucchini. Can't find it anywhere! Could Uncle Sam have actually eaten it all?

What just happened?


PETS BEST FRIEND he has what looks like a beak so....maybe he wants to be a bird

 

True! I drive 80+ miles a day shuttling kids to/from school, plus any errands, try to cook dinner more nights than not, the laundry and dishes don’t do themselves, and today I removed wallpaper in a hallway and bedroom to prepare to texture and paint.
But I don’t leave to go to work, so I can stop at a tank whenever I want

Mom's day off! Take a long break if you ever can.
I don't really watch my tanks as much as I would, but I still admire it.

What just happened

It might have floated away, that happened to me once.
My Pleco is bad about knocking the suction cup zucchinI off the glass.