Anyone find this odd?

[Watcher74]

I've perused many of the aquarium specs here at aquaria central and am kinda confused about something.

A lot of people here have tanks set up in their basements and I can understand that. Some people just love keeping fish so much that they keep the extra tanks in a fish room/house/basement for the ones they can't fit into their living spaces even though they never see them except when they are doing something with them.

But I have seen several people that only have aquariums in an out of the way place.

Why would anyone do that? If you were really into fish keeping wouldn't you want at least one display tank where you and guests could see it often?

I keep mine against the same wall as my entertainment center so I can stare at it during commercials or when I'm bored. It's also one of the first things someone sees when they walk through my front door.

I don't think I would ever keep an aquarium if I couldn't put it in one of my normal living areas of my house.

[aquariumfishguy]

I agree. I wouldn't keep an aquarium in a place that nobody would see it, unless you qualify my bedroom as such a place.

If I was so desperate for space that I would put an aquarium in a "dark corner" that nobody could see, I would move to a bigger place. :D

[Finaddictfred]

any place you can fit a tank is a good place to put a tank. SO long as its able to handle it. If I had to put one in the bathroom..so be it. But then again my fish room had 38 tanks. Had 6 more that were display tanks throughout the house.

[Andy16]

My tank is in my room. I guess its not really a display tank since im just a poor 14 year old teenager that doesnt have the resources to create a tank good enough to display to everyone that would enter my home. So I guess mine is out of the way for my family, but I get to watch it all of the time.

[slipknottin]

i have my fish tanks all somewhat hidden away. I just like focusing on breeding the fish, so I really dont care too much who gets to see them. I spend enough time down there that I dont feel like im missing out by not having it upstairs.

[Dale W.]

Watcher,

This one is for you :)
Its a 400 gallon tank that I built into the wall with complete filtration under the house.

http://www.fishbizforums.com/Photo/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=5

[slipknottin]

i thought you couldnt get LR and corals in hawaii? :confused:

[dwayne]

I know where you're coming from Watcher. My only tank is in my dining room. We never, ever eat in there, but I can see it from the couch in the living room, and as soon as I get home it's the first thing I see.

However, if I had the money, I'd have more tanks... There's only one other spot in the dining room where I could put a tank, and then the next logical spot would be the basement. Trust me, if I had the dough, I'd have tanks down there too, LOL!!!

~Tara

[Dangerdoll]

well, the reason I had mine in the basement (+ a couple upstairs) is because I was staying with my sister for a while. But I'll be moving into a new place today (until however long it takes to get fully there) so not really sure where the tank is gonna go but I can assure you it won't be in the basement.... I was thinking more like the living room.....

[RTR]

Consider that multi-tank people may have more than one category of tank.

Pure display: LR -1, DR - 1 (river tank), Home office (3 tanks).

Display, breeding experiments, micro-ecology experiments are all part of the tank room. Eight of those tanks are in a false wall dividing the tank room from the pool room, so are "display" but several are experiments which do not necessarily reduce their display value. The rest of the tank room tanks are utility - experiments, breeding, grow-out, trials of variant systems - and can only be seen inside the room - they may not be set appropriately to be displays. Relationships with spouses and preparation for guests, etc. can be much easier if utility and works-in-progress are out of sight, including masses of electrical cords, open tanks, experiental filters/hoses/other equipment which for access and observation are exposed rather than hidden behind or under tanks - not the place for most guests, children, etc.

If you have a home worshop, I'd assume it is not an L off the LR. Why should utility tanks be any different?

[tricksterpup]

Originally posted by Reefscape
Watcher,

This one is for you :)
Its a 400 gallon tank that I built into the wall with complete filtration under the house.

http://www.fishbizforums.com/Photo/displayimage.php?album=1&pos=5

Reefscape,
how can you watch TV with out being distracted?

jim

[aquariumfishguy]

If it was my tank, I would have to cut that ending piece of wood off and fill it with some trim to keep it fish-only w/o electronic distractions. LOL

(the TV next to it would bother me) :)

[Dale W.]

uhhh yah, what RTR said. :)

I supose the tank could be a distraction to a point but the TV gets turned on far less from what I hear. This house is now a vacation rental home that rents out for $7200. a week so I dont think the TV is of that big a concern.

Slip,
All of that rock that you see in the tank was propagated from frags which is legal. Almost all of the rock in that tank was dry formed inside the tank before the water ever went in. Also what you cant see is the sand bed in that tank is about 6" deep. It is plumbed so that I can run a hose right down to the ocean (ocean front property) for my water changes which also adds to the "seeding".

[RTR]

TV? Fish tank people watch TV? :shake:

[slipknottin]

Originally posted by RTR
TV? Fish tank people watch TV? :shake:

maybe they have web tv and use it to visit aquarium websites?

:confused: :confused:

[Finaddictfred]

man that tank coulda been another 75 gallons if ya whakked that silly tv and just made it all tank..which is better for your brain

[Dale W.]

That tank was a $17,000. project and if we extended it the full length, it would have added another $5,000. easy.

Slip,

Web tv for the fish :D
They tried calling it the internet, but for some reason, the fish wouldnt get near it :D

[kveeti]

Just speaking for myself....
We have an itty bitty house. There is absolutely no room upstairs for a tank. I suppose I could take away my china cabinet or something and make room... but... I work from home and my computer room is in the basement. I would rather me be able to see the tanks all the time I'm in the basement than have the occasional guest see the tank upstairs.

[Goldy]

:laugh:

TV? Fish tank people watch TV?

Rtr, this really made me laugh. I bought this DVD 4 pack of The Blue Planet--all about different ocean enviroments and stuff--about 2 weeks ago. I'm dying to watch them but I've only managed to watch half of one disc. When I have free time, I'm always in with my tanks!

I have all 4 of my tanks (plus my nephews' that I'm cycling for them) in my sunroom around my computer desk. It's become my little haven and my absolute favorite part of the house. I can go in there with a tension headache and be perfectly fine in about 20 minutes. I'm with you, kveeti. I want to be able to sit and enjoy my tanks. I wouldn't put one where I wouldn't be hanging out a lot.

[TKOS]

My main tank is my white cloud tank. I keep it in the basemesnt as it has the coolest overall temps. I can keep the tank at 70F year round. The tropicals stay upstairs.

[RTR]

Well, since I've managed to edge back up over two dozen tanks (after promising myself I would not), there is no shortage of things to stare at. But I do admit that this room, with three tanks (55, 33XL, and 29) is my favorite roost. Late night I'm likely to be in the pool room, stretched out on the soft leather sofa, staring at the displayed tank room tanks in the dividing wall - two are even on reversed light cycle, so if the upper tanks are past lights off, there are still lighted tanks to watch.

This house was customed, so some provision was made for tanks and tank spaces in the planning - finally! After all those years of spare bedrooms, basements, and dens I think it was about time.