Keeping Tanks In Rooms You Don't Use Much?

[ellena]

We have tons of space in our house-I could (theoretically and not at all if H has anything to do with it!) have loads of tanks. But they'd be in rooms we don't use, like spare bedrooms.
I think that defeats the object kind of? I'd want them in the living room, or kitchen/our bedroom at a push where I could watch them.
Does anyone have fish in unused rooms?

 

[Socks]

I only have 1 tank atm,but i have a freind who keeps her 3 display tanks out in the living/kitchen area and her hospital and breeder tanks away in spare bedrooms.

 

[minxfishy]

There is no such thing in our house as an unused room, although once the teenage boys move out, there will be

 

[simonas]

MY TANKS ARE IN THE GARAGE

I wish I had the space to put them in the house but I don;t so I go out there to watch them. If they were in living room for example I reckon I;d just watch all day long.!!! better tha Cory!!

 

[snowflake311]

I have a tank in the living room. My new big one is in the spare too where my computer is. What's cool is you can see all the tanks at the same time. I can stand in the living room and see 2 tanks then down the hall is my big tank. It's cool.

 

[dave_oddballs]

i have my 2 main tanks in my living room and 4 in my bedroom. If i had my way id have them in the dining room, bathroom, kitchen, conservatory, loft, porch! Hehe
David

 

[saz326]

When I have a house (RENTING at the moment! Pah!) I Will be keeping my breeder tanks in low use rooms so as not to spook the breeding efforts of my fish. The fry and eggs of light sensitive species will then be able to be protected by keeping the blind/curtains closed rather than draping cloths over the tanks.

But my main cichlid tank will be in the lounge, and the large community jobby will be in the kitchen/dining room.

 

[saltynay]

I have a tank cycling in the basement but I am going to put some of my teenage goldies in their in the hope that giving them preferential treatment will give them their colour more rapidly rather then to watch them.

 

[Inchworm]

We have tons of space in our house-I could (theoretically and not at all if H has anything to do with it!) have loads of tanks. But they'd be in rooms we don't use, like spare bedrooms.
I think that defeats the object kind of? I'd want them in the living room, or kitchen/our bedroom at a push where I could watch them.
Does anyone have fish in unused rooms?

Hi ellena

It's all in how you think about it. Move the furniture around and voila! You no longer have a spare bedroom, but a fishroom with a few other things in it.

 

[shelaghfishface]

i have my 3 main tanks in my lounge sounds like niagra falls when the tv is off but i love it, have plenty of room left all over the house too,and a concrete floored garage

if you put tanks in the room as inchworm says they wouldne be spare rooms, and you would have a reason to go in there excpet for dusting

 

[TheBigEasy]

you will find as soon as you put tanks in your "unused rooms" that you will frequent them throughout the day. I love watching my tanks.

 

[ellena]

Good point, I hadn't thought of that! I suppose I could sit in there reading or whatever-good idea
If I ever get my first tank cycled and if H comes round to the idea of more tanks [fingers crossed]

 

[karigupi]

I will be putting my breeding tanks in the bedroom as its quieter & darker up their, but I agree in the main that I like to have my tanks where I can see them.

I'm not really a TV person anymore (think i'm getting old) its Cbeebies all day, spongebob & simpsons in the evening, then footie or cricket at night, so I dont really get a look in. I like to have my tanks where I can watch them

Radio one, Keri Arthur book, sitting in a comfy chair with a glass of wine watching the fish is my idea of bliss.

 

[superman1]

i have my 4ft tank in my room. i only really get to see it over the weekend as i live away 4 days a week at uni. so when i do go home when ever i come home from friends i just sit in my room n watch the tank before i go sleep or when im reading a book ill just sit in front of the tank.

its great

 

[tenohfive]

I've got my biggest tank in my living room (180) and a tiny tank with a few ember tetra's in there as well - though that'll be relocated soon to make room for a 42" plasma.

Third (goldfish) tank is in a partition inside my garage that I use as a weights room - nowhere really inside for it. And I've got a community tank thats getting converted to a river tank in my study. And I'm planning a nano marine for the kitchen. All except the goldie tank get frequent traffic (as explained by my puny muscles) but once I've got their new tank setup I'm hoping that'll be an incentive to go out there.

Still umming and arring about turning the garage into a fish room...