This is great. The reality of saltwater fish keeping. In the beginning I had my times where I was also fustrated,and said fuk it I'm giving up. Or will just walk away from the tank for a couple of days etc,etc. In those early days, I used to just drop fish in my display tank too. Didn't quarantine..
I've been in this hobby since the late 80's. It's great seeing some of your old skool pics/equiptment. Sanders was the chit back then. Had one of their ozonizers,and air driven skimmers with the wood airstone/diffuser..