Haha HEY CHERYL!!! I definitely want to do more plantquarium videos! Hope you had a great summer too.

@@JKFishKeeping I did thank you but what weird weather we had. My veggie garden was having trouble getting going but my peppers are finally ripening now. Went to the "end of season sale" at my favourite plant place. Both indoor and outdoor plants and yeah I went a little overboard🤣but who could resist those prices!! Splurges were a Alocasia Hilo Beauty and a Monstera Swiss cheese (total for both was $22 😱)

@@cherylmartin9994 OOoOO yes! lots of planty sales going on. That's great, yea the weather has been really off and on. I didn't do a veggie garden this year but the strawberries keep coming!

Hi Craig!

Hey you! I’m sorry to hear that but glad if it helped. Have you made any changes to your aquarium routine to relieve some pressure?

@@JKFishKeeping I quit my water changes for a while (though I'm doing some large ones today, and it was due to the burnout and stress) I felt horrible and felt like I was neglecting them because I'm the kind of person who hasn't quite learned that my tanks are okay left alone for a while (obviously with limits) However, I wouldn't recommend this to most aquarists. Both my tanks are planted, one of the tanks only needs the water changed once a month or so anyway (learned this through testing my tank water), but I hadn't learned to leave it alone, and I did look out for behavior and sickness. Again, I wouldn't recommend this to a lot of people and I believe it definitely depends on the tank and water situation. I'm going to run some more tests on the tank that needs water changes more frequently to see how it's doing (honestly though the plants are doing so much better without me messing around with water changes so often) Maybe it was the lesson I needed to leave them alone sometimes or maybe I've failed to be a good fishkeeper... I'm not entirely sure. But all my fish got through it okay. And I know I'm not over all my problems or anxiety, but I'm finally ready to jump back into the hobby.

@keepkeepingaquatics definitely sounds like it was a good needed “break”. I’ve definitely felt the guilt of neglecting tanks and still do at times. I need to move out some fish I’m not enjoying anymore and scape some more. Yes definitely some of my planted tanks do well when I just don’t touch them or do as many waterchanges for sure. But it does still ring true here that you gotta take care of yourself first. Glad you’re making it through and hope that road is nearing its end and also glad we’re on a similar timing path as well! Thank you for being here and sharing your journey.

Hey Rob!!! Haha yea I’m picking up some assassin snails next weekend 🤦‍♂️ yea losing fish definitely makes it suck.

Going hard again 👊

Great idea! I can definitely do one soon! Thanks