ExPeNsIvE HoBbY
Formerly ExPeNsIvE AdDiCtIoN on MFK
I have 58 tanks right now, 2 "fish rooms", a tank in every room of the house and I don't own a pet store, do I have MTS?
Your thoughts on the causes of Multiple Tank Syndrome (MTS)
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So yes in fact your entire last post smacks of a disorder
lol
Fish Anon here I come!! Who's with me?
^ one of my reasons....lol
I started, by winning a dumb goldfish from the carnival. I bought a 1 gallon hex aquarium, and assumed that would be it. It dies three days later, so i looked for new inhabitants for the tank, i bought way to many fish, and incompatible ones, so i needed a new tank, to fix the issues. So, i bought a ten gallon. then the same day, i found a 5 gal mini bow at a yard sale...and it went down hill from there.
My ex hated this website( i spent way to much time here)
Hated all the tanks, and hated that i met so many new people through this hobby. ( out of spite, i brought more and more home!)
I became obsessive, making sure each tank was perfect for what i envisioned. At one point, i had 54 tanks up and running. I couldn't pass up a yardsale, for fear i may miss a tank.
Now, i have ( i think, ) my mts under controll. i gave away, or sold a large portion of my tanks, and have 5 tanks, ( a 55 running) a ten in progress, a 30 ,a 5, and a 1 that won't be set up for a while.
I won't add any new tanks, unless that elusive free 200 gallon comes along, lol.
I also am addicted to house plants as mentioned above. i love the look of my tanks, with plants all around them.
I also became a rescue for fish, any fish someone didn't or couldn't take, i ended up with.
i also ended up talking others into tanks, ( my sister in law, aunt, dad, stepgrandmother, sister, and a friend of mine,) so i was always planning someone elses tanks for them. lol
Shopping, and researching, (2 hobbies of mine as well, ..haha) made it all the more apealing!!
Jill-O
All American Girl (all grown up)
I think I'm going to fall in line with a lot of the other people who've replied.
Generally, if I like something, I really like it and want to do well with it and enjoy it to the fullest. I have a few hobbies and I do what I can to excel in them. With the fish, there are so many different kinds that interest me and they cannot all live in one tank
When I first got back into the hobby, I poured myself into learning what I could to get a good start and it's something both my husband and I have enjoyed. I love that there is always something new to try (if you want) and a number of good ways to have nice results. This is something that, for me, keeps it interesting.
Generally, if I like something, I really like it and want to do well with it and enjoy it to the fullest. I have a few hobbies and I do what I can to excel in them. With the fish, there are so many different kinds that interest me and they cannot all live in one tank
When I first got back into the hobby, I poured myself into learning what I could to get a good start and it's something both my husband and I have enjoyed. I love that there is always something new to try (if you want) and a number of good ways to have nice results. This is something that, for me, keeps it interesting.
carpenter547
The Desert Punk
funny thing about psycology...
funny thing about psycology is that it attempts to take a very individualized issue and come up with a way to make it applicable to a group and then treat the group.
it is a very very soft science.
now for the sake of the above the word you are looking for to describe MTS is compulsion.
not making any disparaging remarks about any one or any thing.
MTS is only a problem if it affects your ability to function or impairs your relationships.
in essence i believe most keepers of multiple tanks are acting on thier most human and primal urge to connect to nature. having an aquarium is a way to recreate a little slice of nature. there are 3 sights views vistas images what have you that enthrall us to the point that we must force ourselves to look a way, in that i mean we must as some point make a very concious and forced effort to stop looking.
one would be fire
two would be an aquascape
three would be sex *for lack of a single appropriate way to describe it*
*by sex i mean a scene image person etc... that brings forth the feeling or longing for that intamate connection with people. i do not mean to imply nudity or the capturing of lewd and lacivious acts. i mean there is was will be or has been that moment in your life when you looked a member *hopefully member of our speices* of our species and stood there dumbfounded unable to look away. not that they were so beutiful or that they were nude just that you felt the urge to be near them to connect with them. call it an attraction to the moment.*
any way that is my ramble on the subject sorry for it's lenght. also appologies for the spelling errors i don't really have the inclination to correct them they are all spelled as sounds so if you have trouble just read it out loud :lol2:
and again this post in no way points a finger at any one in particular so if you feel that you are in no way shape or form complusive but can't resist posting that you aren't *cough cough compulsive cough* i guess i can't stop you.:dance:
funny thing about psycology is that it attempts to take a very individualized issue and come up with a way to make it applicable to a group and then treat the group.
it is a very very soft science.
now for the sake of the above the word you are looking for to describe MTS is compulsion.
not making any disparaging remarks about any one or any thing.
MTS is only a problem if it affects your ability to function or impairs your relationships.
in essence i believe most keepers of multiple tanks are acting on thier most human and primal urge to connect to nature. having an aquarium is a way to recreate a little slice of nature. there are 3 sights views vistas images what have you that enthrall us to the point that we must force ourselves to look a way, in that i mean we must as some point make a very concious and forced effort to stop looking.
one would be fire
two would be an aquascape
three would be sex *for lack of a single appropriate way to describe it*
*by sex i mean a scene image person etc... that brings forth the feeling or longing for that intamate connection with people. i do not mean to imply nudity or the capturing of lewd and lacivious acts. i mean there is was will be or has been that moment in your life when you looked a member *hopefully member of our speices* of our species and stood there dumbfounded unable to look away. not that they were so beutiful or that they were nude just that you felt the urge to be near them to connect with them. call it an attraction to the moment.*
any way that is my ramble on the subject sorry for it's lenght. also appologies for the spelling errors i don't really have the inclination to correct them they are all spelled as sounds so if you have trouble just read it out loud :lol2:
and again this post in no way points a finger at any one in particular so if you feel that you are in no way shape or form complusive but can't resist posting that you aren't *cough cough compulsive cough* i guess i can't stop you.:dance:
lol, i don't think so, thats perfectly normal.
Now, you know you have MTS when your dream in life is to work at and own your own fishstore/breedery. lol, i will achieve my dream XD
Since we seem to be telling stories, here's mine:
Now, i started the same way a lot of people started: At the town fair, playing the "Win a fish by getting the ball to land in its tank/cup/thing game". Im sure thats how a ton of people here got into fishkeeping. So, i named the fish Jack, and have since then had about 4 "Jacks" over about 8 years. I know, they last longer then that, but all that happened before i got to this site. Ok, so, after Jack the first, came all sorts of random fish that should probably have never been together. Minnows, sunfish, goldfish, even stone catfish and a pleco. I remember that once i have 3 Koi living with 2 medium stone catfish. They were fine until the catfish could fit the koi into its mouth... then we had to let it go in the Scukill to be with its brethren. I know i've had snapping turtles, common goldfish, fancy goldfish, all sorts of stuff. I currently have 4 tanks and a Temporary Tupperware Tank (TTT) cause i ran out of real tanks. (lol, fail) I definitely have an addiction...
You bring up some interesting points, although I am compelled to say that what your first sentence refers to is known as a type of observational study called a cross-sectional analysis and is not entirely what psychology is based upon, although I will agree that some psychological theories are EXTREMELY soft in the world of any science, but that is not what this thread is about
moving on. A primal need to connect with nature that so many, certainly many who live in the sprawls of this planets metropolitan areas, is a very good argument; however, would this same theory apply to those of us who live within very rural mountainous areas and are surrounded by and in constant connection with nature on a daily basis?
carpenter547
The Desert Punk
yes yes it would.
yes it still applies to those of us in rual areas. not just those of you in mountain areas but us "flat-landers" too.
i live in a city with about 3k perm. residents that can get up to a whooping 5-6k in the winter durring a harvesting season. migrant workers and snowbirds.
i am surrounded by nature myself those not acainted with the desert don't know how full of life it is. but what we lack here in the desert is water and alot of natural greenery. every time i see a movie or photograph of a forest or swamp it reaches out to me since the predonimant color here is brown.
auariums terarium other *iums and gardening allow us to change the vista of the nature we wish to connect with if even on a micro scale.
to me this explains why the biotope and themed and heavy planted tanks have become so popular. generally the less connected a culture is to nature the more they seek to creat spots to connect to it. one shining example is the tanks that the japanese in japan are creating.
the above mention theories of mine explain to me at least why the tank in the waiting room is such a common decorating theme. at the very least we are starting to see much more use of potted plants and natural vista wallpapers in waiting rooms.
remember like 15 -20 years ago when waiting rooms were shoulder to shoulder 18 inches of room per person wall to wall chairs?
yes it still applies to those of us in rual areas. not just those of you in mountain areas but us "flat-landers" too.
i live in a city with about 3k perm. residents that can get up to a whooping 5-6k in the winter durring a harvesting season. migrant workers and snowbirds.
i am surrounded by nature myself those not acainted with the desert don't know how full of life it is. but what we lack here in the desert is water and alot of natural greenery. every time i see a movie or photograph of a forest or swamp it reaches out to me since the predonimant color here is brown.
auariums terarium other *iums and gardening allow us to change the vista of the nature we wish to connect with if even on a micro scale.
to me this explains why the biotope and themed and heavy planted tanks have become so popular. generally the less connected a culture is to nature the more they seek to creat spots to connect to it. one shining example is the tanks that the japanese in japan are creating.
the above mention theories of mine explain to me at least why the tank in the waiting room is such a common decorating theme. at the very least we are starting to see much more use of potted plants and natural vista wallpapers in waiting rooms.
remember like 15 -20 years ago when waiting rooms were shoulder to shoulder 18 inches of room per person wall to wall chairs?
It's not even necessarily the fish for me. I like the whole experience of getting new filters,lights,substrate, and then setting up a new tank. I like to keep a wide variety of fish, but the set up of new,and differently decorated tanks has as much to do with the hobby as well as the fish themselves.
