Do You Ever Think That You Might Have Over Done It With The Fish Tanks

[WILDER]

I have three, and i think i want to cut down to two.

 

[callum_parsons]

i had 4 and have cut down to 1 marine and 1 freshwater

 

[geo7x]

well, at the moment i only have 2 fish tanks, a 15g and a 10g, i want a bigger tank though for bigger oddballs, then i think i would be happy for a while at least, trouble is it would have to go downstairs and my mum says no, but im sure ill be able to persuade her.

 

[Pheonix]

3 in the house at the mo!! only one is mine though so im being a good boy

 

[CFC]

Never!! I have 17 and i'm working on getting more, squeeze 'em in and stack 'em high.

 

[jayjay]

Nope, I'm on 7 and setting up 2 more.

 

[WILDER]

How do you fit the time in on them all.

 

[callum_parsons]

i meet this guy on holiday in italy in a place called sorrento(it is a great place would recommed it to anyone)
and he told me that he had a fish house with 40 tanks he was a legend and he new so much. it was when i was setting up my first tank so he helped me out loads.

 

[Fishkeeper2004]

I have two tanks in my room, and another two smaller tanks downstairs. To be honest I would like around twice as many as I already have, but it would either mean adding electrical sockets and contributing towards to electric bill, or overloading the sockets and still paying extra..

 

[Tolak]

That's a question I hear on a regular basis. 16 running right now, with a little fishroom rearrangement & upgrade planned. That should put me near 20.

How do you fit the time in on them all.

Bare bottom tanks, large diameter siphon hoses, separate drain & fill hoses, powerheads with pre-filters on the bottoms of the tanks, and multi-tasking during maintenance. I knock out 50% water changes with siphoning the bottom in around 4 hours, a couple hours a week on filter maintenance, and around a half hour nightly between the bbs hatchery & fry tank maintenance. I have a centeralized air system & auto water changers planned for the future once the tanks are moved around.

 

[PlecMama]

4 running, 2 out of service. No plans to get the other 2 back up.

Sometimes I wish I could move the furniture round in the front room, but moving the 6ft is a four-man job - and where else would it go anyway? It means though that one of the sofas got sqeezed into the bay window and you have to stand on the sofa to draw the blinds. Oh well.

 

[Tommy Gunnz]

I never think I have too many tanks, but my wife sure does! She also thinks that my constantly evolving ideas on what to do next with each tank. I had four tanks up and going, all freshwater, but we recently moved into our first house, which set me up for keeping saltwater, and so I went "way too big!" (wife's own words) with a 90 gallon bowfront. Right now I am down to two tanks (one salty, one fresh with cichlids) and I am right now staring at a new 10 gallon that I bought today and am cloning as we speak from my freshwater 55 gallon.

At the LFS today, while looking at some saltwater stocking options, I saw a really great planted tank and this has got me thinking. I just have to let the wife settle down a little before I bring that one up to her! I may have to go with tolak's plan and just have a fishtank room all to myself. To be honest, I have found that I can barely sleep unless I can hear the faint sounds of water dripping and air pumps humming!

 

[SamUK]

dont think id get anymore than the 6 i have now.

takes a couple of hours on a sunday morning to do all my waterchanges and stuff so its not 2 bad at all.

dont actually have any room left in my bedroom either.

 

[ImperfectFaerie]

Well, we have 3 running now- one main one, one Betta/ADF tank, and one quarantien tank. We would like to get one more 29g, so we would have one for him one for me. After that however, is going to have to wait until we get into a house (we are in an apartment now) as our landlords are very leinient as to our tanks now, but much more and they might not be so easy-going.

 

[The-Wolf]

currently only on 5
but I want to get 2 more larger ones, so I can have one tank for each continent.