Multiple Tanks Vs. One Single Tank

[BigIan]

Try setting up your first marine tank, as well as your first high tec planted at the same time...


Thats fun.
I love having 6 tanks but its bloody annoying when every things going wrong and you need to do constant water changes and throw al your money into them....

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yeah we've 6 set up, 2 spares in the cellar and the PFK Aquacube on the way although we're not sure if we're setting that up as the 7th or just swapping it for one of the smaller tanks.

I love having lots of tanks cos I like the variety, We've got big chiclids, little cichlids, community, betta's, marine, low tech planted, high tech planted coming soon...... all sorts really.

I'll agree it does get a bit hard when you've other priorities or if one tank is taking up a lot of your time and energy, it can be hard keeping everything running smoothly. We do find as well if one of us is poorly and can't do anything, then it's quite hard work for the other one to do everything.

Part of me think's I wouldn't mind winding down a few of them so it's less work, but the one's that are high maintenance or expensive are the one's we won't part with so there's no point really!! sure we'll have to when we move in a few years, but we'll keep all the tanks and equipment and you can guarantee when we've got a bigger house they'll soon be set back up.

 

[cane76]

i have 3 tanks running 30g 75g 100g and 2 empty 20g 280g,once my plan comes together i will just have 2 tanks the 100 and 280,everything else is being sold or more than likely given away.they will also be kept in the same converted garage as i dont like tanks scattered everywhere

 

[lljdma06]

I have three at the moment (36g, 20g, 8g, all planted, all cloned from each other). I like the flexibility of having the three. The great thing is that if something goes wrong with one, there are two to absorb the bio load of the other. I see myself getting one more larger one, but in the distant future. As to perfecting the decorations, it just takes a little more patience when you have multiple tanks. One is nearly complete, the other two are new, so it'll take some time.

 

[Dragonscales]

Personally, it always seems like there is never enough room or money to get the amount tanks I'd like and it is only set to get worse when I finally get a few rugrats hanging off me. The missus has already stressed the point that tank numbers are going to have to be downgraded once we have kids. I would be stuffed if I was restricted to only one tank because there is simply too many choices involved with fishkeeping. As it stands, I am seriously tossing up what I want more, numerous tanks filled with the many ideas I get from day to day or kids I spose I will have to compromise though because I want both about as much as each other and I guess the missus did say I could have about 3 tanks, but still....3....not really alot...hmmm...

 

[CFC]

A lot of the fish i keep dont mix well with others so either have to be kept completely alone or in a species only enviroment, if i were limited to just one tank then i would quite possibly have just one fish.

Fortunately i have the space for several large tanks in my fish room which allows me the space to keep a wide variety of interesting fish and i wouldnt have it any other way.

 

[dwarfgourami]

I'm going into fish that need a species tank now, and breeding a bit, so I really don't see myself as getting rid of any of the five yet- a sixth would be nice...
I still do buckets, I've got fry in all my tanks except one (unless there's something the corys haven't told me) and I don't want them going into the flower beds. Besides, I can't fit a hose attachment onto our stupid kitchen tap, wrong size.

 

[Bloo]

I've just recently scaled down from 3 tanks to one. And life is truly bliss. Where I used to spend ages doing different kinds of maintenance, I now just have one 100 gallon tank to tend. I enjoy it so much more

But ultimately it just depends how much time you have and what types of setups they are.
There's no point running around maintaining and not fully enjoying your tanks (that's what I felt like at times).

Now I can sit back, relax and enjoy

Edit: and on a side note: this massive tank is far easier to maintain than my smaller tanks were on their own - by a long shot !

 

[Mako Man111]

I've just recently scaled down from 3 tanks to one. And life is truly bliss. Where I used to spend ages doing different kinds of maintenance, I now just have one 100 gallon tank to tend. I enjoy it so much more

But ultimately it just depends how much time you have and what types of setups they are.
There's no point running around maintaining and not fully enjoying your tanks (that's what I felt like at times).

Now I can sit back, relax and enjoy

Edit: and on a side note: this massive tank is far easier to maintain than my smaller tanks were on their own - by a long shot !

Cool, I may scale down to one one day, maby even just a single reef tank

My only problem is, that I want to keep the tank in my room, but I'm scared to keep my big 105 gallon in my room. The problem is don't get too see it much in the basement where it is now, maby a nano reef would be a good single tank to have and keep in my room.

 

[wendywc]

Well, I want to setup one more tank to make it 3. Problem is I can't decide what to setup in it. Plus I need to make a stand for it. But I have options.

 

[Teelie]

I keep trying to stop but get suckered in. Fortunately at 6 tanks running, and one a 15 minute drive away, I am at my limit. Like some of the other members, I keep fish that don't "play well" with others like my newly aquired staps and I also have snails, which my clown loaches would eat. I also keep kuhli loaches who are nervous little guys who get easily intimidated.

I do want to gradually cut back or at least not expand but I'm being worked on to help set up an aquarium for a friend's classroom and that might expand into setting aquariums up in other classrooms...

 

[Inchworm]

...I'm being worked on to help set up an aquarium for a friend's classroom and that might expand into setting aquariums up in other classrooms...

That's a great idea, and it's good of you to help. Children can learn a lot from fish. Here's an old thread that was started by a teacher. Perhaps, (even if the tank is being set up for younger children), your friend might get some ideas from it.

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=12130&hl=

 

[Teelie]

I don't know what all the grades are in the school but these will be 13-14 year old or abouts, so they're young enough to be a mild concern but old enough to not worry about them banging on the glass or anything.

 

[tattae]

My suggestion is to keep the multiple tanks. There will be a time, when you walk to the lfs to find a fish that you MUST have. Unfortunately, it can't live in the same tank with your other fish.

 

[Mako Man111]

Yes that is true, but for you people with like 6 tanks, doesn't it become more of a nuisance and less enjoyable, when all your doing is maintenance?