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My husband gave me a 55 gallon for my B-day. Now he wants me to get rid of my 29 gallon. Says too many fish tanks in house.
My son has a 10 gallon w/red platys, tetras, african dwarf frog ghost shrimp and apple snail. I also have another 10 gallon that I use as a hospital tank.

My question is I noticed alot of posters have alot of tanks, how do you guys do it (do your homes look over-crowded w/tanks)?

Like I said stupid question and I wouldn't be surprised if either no replies are given or response is sarcastic but I am curious.
 
I think it depends on the size of the house/apt. We live in a good sized house, and where we put our tanks is basically dead space. We didnt have a ton of decorative furniture, therefore fish tanks were used instead. As you can see in the signature below, we have quite a few, but they are spaced out throughout the downstairs. And we get many compliments from friends/family on all the tanks.

One of our bigger tanks, the 56g is right in the living room, we watch it more than the tv, and even attracts people from outside (at halloween all the trick-or-treeters keep gauking at it, lol). IMHO if there is room/unneeded space, there's never too many tanks.

And we still have to have enough room for my 9yr old son and german shorthaired pointer (who weighs approx 55-60lbs.) to run freely. :p:
 
I have the same problem, I have 3 tanks right now and I am about to add a 4th.

I rent a single bedroom at a home and it is also my office a few days of the week. (Can't and never will have a million to throw down on a house in Cali).

I'm debating on putting one of my tanks in the bathroom! Probably the fry tank...
 
Hey, 'tiff, I'm a noob to the aquaria world (have had dogs, cats, horses, etc--my "landfish") and when I fell into this wonderful site in January, I gotta tell ya, hunny, these folks are all about helping, being gentle and kind in remonstrances, and as I've often seen them sweetly chide others new, there's never a stupid question. What's bad is when you don't ask!!! So ask away with the rest of us, and as someone here told me, "This is my last tank" are famous last words!! LOL Have fun!!! :dance2:
 
I have a 3/2 home. 55gallon in living room, 10 gallon in son's room, daughters room overcrowded as is, 10 gallon (hospital) in bedroom, betta tank on top of desk, and currently the 29 gallon in dining room. The problem is it sticks out too much and doesn't really look good there. My husband took over family room and has all the walls filled up.

I really, really don't wanna get rid of it. I need a decorator NOW!!! LOL
 
My house is kinda big, too, but the living room is the pits because it's so small. Anyhow I have one 75g that sits along the wall between the living room and the dining room. It's the first thing you see when you walk into the house and it's on a custom made oak stand. Really looks nice.

The family room, which was supposed to be my art studio, is now half art studio and half fishroom. I have two 75gs, a 36g, a 45g, a 30g and a 20g in there. That's along one load-bearing wall and the far end load-bearing wall. The opposite wall has my table where I do smelly, messy stuff like gourdwork or carving, my computer desk and my laser printer. The rest of my studio, my easels and stuff, are in the master bedroom.

My 4-year-old son's room has a 65g and a 29g. My daughter currently has no fish tanks as she is old enough to look after them herself and needs to demonstrate to me that she can look after her cats, ball python and sea monkeys without me yelling at her first :rolleyes: She's 9.

Hrm, oh, and I have 2 10g breeding/QT/Plant grow out tanks on the kitchen counter.

And hubby has a 92g reef he is setting up in his office in the basement.

We need another room now :)

Roan
 
I have a 75 gallon in the living room, a 40 gallon in daughters room, a 20 in sons room, 2 five gallon betta bowls in kitchen, and a 5 gallon QT tank I pull out as needed. The ones in the kitchen get daily water changes (no filters on betta bowls so must be changed daily) Not a big deal there, since the sink is so handy! Every Monday I hook up the Python and do my water changes on all other tanks. With some of the hose extentions on it they reach to all the tanks. So it's clean, fill...move to another tank and take apart filters and clean those on one of the tanks a week on a rotation. It takes less than 2 hours to do it all sometimes less than an hour. I enjoy tank maintence though and find it relaxing.

It doesn't seem like you see tanks everywhere though. And most people don't seem to notice much but the one in the living room. I think if you can find the space and have time to keep up on the maintence keep it. If you have to get rid of one...how about switching your sons platy tank for the larger 29 gallon. It will give his fishies more room and IMO it's much easier to maintain a larger tank than a smaller one and I think keeping the water stable is easier. I think thats the route I would go.
 
I want more tanks. Kinda odd, misses says, "No more room for tanks." A month later she finds 15 square feet against a wall for a big ginea pig cage.... Guess who takes care of the ginea pigs now. Shoulda let me get another tank.

When we get a house when were done with school, she says that she doesn't want a bunch of fish tanks. I say, I'm glad your going to be working weird hours so I can just go to the store and get them :Angel:
 
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