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

[vancouver]

I have like 15.. I'd like to get down to 3.

I'm trying to sell some small tanks but nobody wants them.. I'm just gonna throw them in the garbage so I don't have to look at them.

Unfortunately I have about 6 set up right now.. 10g, 33g, 40g, 48g, 55g, 75g

A 200 gallon tank would be perfect.. could house most of my fish together n keep the 75g as a spare. and a 10g just for kicks!

 

[cane76]

i had 5 running a few weeks ago but i was getting fed up with the tanks upstairs so now i only have 3.in the end i only want my 280g,100g and 80g.

 

[Nevergone815]

well i have 4 running. i mainly talk about my 55 gal mostly, but i do have 3 10 gals full of common livebearers, shrimp, snails, etc. my main goal is ot eventually set up like a 300 gal or 500 gal (custom i would assume) and put like a bunch of the more "common" new world cichlids and hybrids in there and have a party. they all take similar waer conditions and worse comes o worse, i'm sure i will have plenty of smaller empty tanks laying around since i will probably be slowly upgrading and not jumping strait to 300 gal

I have like 15.. I'd like to get down to 3.

I'm trying to sell some small tanks but nobody wants them.. I'm just gonna throw them in the garbage so I don't have to look at them.

Unfortunately I have about 6 set up right now.. 10g, 33g, 40g, 48g, 55g, 75g

A 200 gallon tank would be perfect.. could house most of my fish together n keep the 75g as a spare. and a 10g just for kicks!

too bad i wasn't closer or i would happily take some of your hands, though when i go back home maybe i will make a trip to cananda... it is literally a hop skip and jump away from where i live

 

[highfire]

Not at the moment!
I only have one, but am planning on setting up another tropical very soon.

 

[timmystood]

Currently on 5 and desperatley want an axolotl to make 6... I'll admit when it gets busy at work I struggle to keep up, but I have made a schedule that I follow which tells which tank should be water changed that day and what food a tank is getting that day.. it makes everything so much easier.

 

[CFC]

How do you fit the time in on them all.

I can do all the water changes, vacuming and cleaning the smaller filters in around 4 hours over the weekend (i usually split the time over 2 days in the mornings before the family are up), i do all the external filters once every couple of months which takes another couple of hours on top of the usual 4 hours. The stingray tanks gets an additional 25% water change mid week which takes about an hour. All in all about 22 hours a month for maintainance isnt that much, some hobbies take over entire weekends.

 

[xostrawberryox]

Fish are our weekends too. We have 2 freshies and his marine tank and soon to be another large puffa tank. Woop woop! Its good cos its something we can do together

 

[CAC]

How do you fit the time in on them all.

I can do all the water changes, vacuming and cleaning the smaller filters in around 4 hours over the weekend (i usually split the time over 2 days in the mornings before the family are up), i do all the external filters once every couple of months which takes another couple of hours on top of the usual 4 hours. The stingray tanks gets an additional 25% water change mid week which takes about an hour. All in all about 22 hours a month for maintainance isnt that much, some hobbies take over entire weekends.

Yeah, thats true actually...Things like bikeing or swimming needs to be done more than twice a week, for a good couple of hours...22hrs spread over a month isnt that much alltogether...

Mikey

 

[kanzaris]

I had four tanks up to recently. But I upgraded one of the Tanks to 6 1/2 x2x2 so one tank had to go as I 'am running out of space.
I am left with a 4x2x2 Malawi Cichlids a 4ft low end Brackish and the 6 1/2 x2x2 Brackish Tank. When hubby helps it takes only 1 1/2 hours to do the water changes.

Sabby

 

[Gill]

I went up to nearly 20 Fighter Bowls and 5 Tanks.

Then cut it down as they were all over the house.

Now down to 3 Tanks and 1 Bowld

1 Fry Tank
1 Community Tank
1 Daphnia/Apple Snail/Excess plants Tank.

oh and the Rain Butts with Goldfish and Floating Plants and Vallis in them.

 

[fishwatcher]

I just added my 6th tank last night, though it's not stocked yet. They are all small though... 1 20-gal comm, 3 10-gal comm, 1 3-gal DP, 1 2.5-gal divided betta. If I had a bigger house I'd get more... I already have my "dream" tanks (a 100-g oscar/JD/etc, and a 50-g cichlid) for when we close in our carport and make it a usable room! (My DH just says I'm nuts, until I mention that I could go clothes/shoes shopping every week and spend much more money like a lot of women do. Then he shuts his trap! )
BTW, I do NOT have MTS!

edited: I forgot, I'd also like a nice 75-g goldfish tank too.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Well, my signature says it all, really....

I do keep telling myself that it is a cheaper hobby than pub-crawling (as we used to do when we were a young couple) or trying to keep myself looking smart (as so many wives my age do), and it takes less time than most people waste on watching television; besides, having had to give up most of my outdoor hobbies and the best part of my career to spend time at home with a sick daughter, I would go insane if I didn't have something at home that was all mine and added that little bit of fun to the daily routine.

Still, I am somewhat reluctant to admit that 2+1+2 do actually make 5. I have promised my husband that tank no 5 will be dismantled once the bristle babies are old enough to be spread around the other tanks and eventually sold. He doesn't believe me, though. Sensible man.

 

[Mako Man111]

I have two right now, a 20 gal community, and a 105 gal cichlid.

Where do you people keep all of these tanks!??!

 

[demonmagus]

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

never

Hopefully getting a 6ft, got a 3ft and a betta tank.

also doing a nano reef and maybe upgrading the 3ft soon to another reef

 

[4ftguppy]

How do you fit the time in on them all.

never stock to capacity.

Heavily understocked tanks need FAR less maintenance than ones stocked to the gills.