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*coughs* I have ALL my tanks in my bedroom.

1 x 20 long
1 x 12 gal
1 x 10 gal
1 x 5 gal
5 x 2 gal

And yes, I'm out of counter space to PUT more tanks. ...unless I put away some stuff on my dresser. I'm still trying to figure out if there's more room for betta tanks.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

it is hard to keep a small 10g set up well balanced...I do not wish to put you off but after my last go I'll stick to using the 10g as a hospital tank.

I wish you luck with it & hope you enjoy it. I want a small 20g? ish set up with just pufferfish in my bedroom when it's decorated.

If I had room for a set up in the kitchen I'd cook & clean more as I'm easily distracted. lol

I understand about the stability of small tanks, but I think that I'm up for the challenge. Besides, this is how MTS gets out of control..." I have a 10G, but a 20L would be better..." I'm trying not to go that route! Plus that's a lot more weight on the dresser, compared to a 10G.

Although a 20 L would be nice....

Argh! Thanks everyone for the replies... I won't feel nearly as bad for crowding my bedroom with fish tanks now

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Back in the saddle!

Nowhereman....I feel your pain...Every day I sit and dream about setting up another tank, but my roommates already think that I am obsessed and wierd after just one tank (err, one main 39 gallon tank and one 6 gallon fry tank...).

I think you should set it up and live it up.

I also think I should take my own advice...

Good luck with it and definitely do it.

I'd go for it! I have 2 10g on my dresser and am trying to figure out how to rearrange my bedroom to make room for more tanks, mainly the 20L and 29g which are going to have to be moved when I get my new 100g set up.

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
~ Mae West

Justice - sorry... have to disagree. If you're careful with stocking and cleaning, you can have a very stable ten gallon. I've got all my small tanks set up and they're all pretty stable. (The two gallons aren't filtered, so that's another story.)

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

I have 4 tanks in my room, 3 five gallon tanks, and 1 ten gallon tank.

I got rid of my dresser & entertainment stand in my room. I went to Home depot and bought this shelf system:

Front view:http://home.comcast.net/~pammylz/HPIM0905.JPG
Side view:http://home.comcast.net/~pammylz/HPIM0903.JPG

In the first pic, I'm standing on my bed looking down at it. I'm not seven feet tall..lol. And please excuse the mess..

It's a shelf system that is customizible. You can add/minus shelves if you like. I only have three for my needs. I only have an 9x11 room. So, something like this helped with storing things. My clothes, btw, are in the rubbermaid containers underneath it. I prefer that, because I had two ten gallons before on a dresser and sometimes, my clothes would get wet in the drawers and the wood would get wet. This way, everything stays dry, and water changes are easy. The stand is very, very tough and durable. The shelves are thick (3/4" ) and can handle the weight of three 5g's. And at one point, it held two 10gs just fine. Anything more, and I would suggest doubling up the wood part of the shelf....

-pamela

P.S. It is 72" tall, 52 1/4" wide, and 24 1/2" deep. Shoe rack not included..lol. Martha Stewart shoe rack fits perfectly on the side.. People who have seen it says it actually looks cool, like an Urban modern city like look...



Last edited by HermeLZ at 11-May-2005 13:20

I have six tanks in my bedroom and one of them is 6', so you're not alone.

SHELLIES! Go for it, you won't regret that decision.

-Molly
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It works with AA doesn't it, the blind leading the blind and all that.
"My name is "insert name here" and I haven't touched a fish in 5 weeks. I realised I had MTS when my wife/husband came to me and said that if I went on one more bender and put one more tank in the house they would pack up the kids and leave. At first I was in denial, until the local news crew showed up with some members from greenpeace to name me as man/woman of the year for my conservation work on aquatic species. It dawned on me as we wound our way thru the banks of tanks that maybe I needed some help."
Maybe we could run interventions, hold family counciling sessions, start a large ad campaign "just say no to more tanks", maybe even start a retreat for those severley afflicted, put it in the middle of the Mohave desert thus removing the temptation of any sort of water. I think if we tried hard enough we could even outlaw bathing since that would expose us to an unhealthy dose of fresh water and could even cause a relapse. So, I think the only cure for MTS would be to become a hermit in the desert with no contact to the outside world, live in a cave with no electric or water, and content ourselves with collecting scorpions. Now, where can I get a good terrarium?

Way ahead of you on the bathing thing buddy

No retreats.. who would take care of the fish while we were away???? Dunks djtj in a 50 gallon.. I NEED that bacteria to start a new tank.

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If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished.

I thought you needed the good kind for fish. No fish would want to be in your tank once I was through with it.

DISCLAIMER: I really don't smell. ....bad

Last edited by djtj at 24-May-2005 14:58

He doesn't smell good either!

*takes tanker off the list*

***Helps LB hold dj down under the water, as we scrub him down with aquarium salt and rinse him with melafix...***

there that should prepare the tank really wellnow where are the new fish


EDIT: And I tried the bit about counseling each other in order to get betterit doesn't work at all...look at Leslie now she is having to hide tanks at my house while her mom is in town, and I know she's going to get it for having the ones I'm leaving here in the houseand the side effect of her counseling me was I went and found a great stand that could hold 3-20 gallon tanks, filled it, need a new one, and bought a 125 as well That or Leslie and I make a bad pair when counseling:%)


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Last edited by houston at 24-May-2005 21:34

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Wooohooo, a 125, you are gonna love the extra space. Have 3 in my living room myself and couldn't live without them.

I'll take a bath if you tell me where I can get one of those 3 x 20 gallon stands.

deal dj!!! Wal-Mart! Ours were near the home improvement area...it's black with 4 shelves and if you space the shelving just perfectly you can possibly get 4-20 gallons or at least 2-20 gallon and 2-10's or something of the sort, play with it and find out...

It stands about 5ft tall, poles are rounded and more decorative than the typical storage shelves...and each shelf is weighted to hold at least 250 lbs...and I think it only cost $40 maybe $50 but really not much at all considering...

dimensions are about 5ft tall, 20-24inches deep and 30-36inches wide...heavy as all get out, and simple to assemble:%)

Now will you please go shower? It is getting rank in here

Tanker, 3? 125 gallon tanks? Good grief man, and here I thought I needed serious counseling:%) would you counsel me? please I want to see that

heidi


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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Simple enough since you are a Houstonian I guess, hehe. I have a 240 coming soon I hope, almost have the wife convinced I will have seizures if I don't get it. Had to convince her that her oscars just can't survive in a 125, hehe. As for stands, build your own. Get a much better quality stand at half the price! Have a new 125 stand in my garage just waiting to be filled and begging me to fill it, hehe.

Tanker I need to take some woodshop classes want to teach me? I am thinking some more 55's and such, nothing much bigger till i get a home of my own:%) 29's are great I can lift them on my own

I've got to get a house and a life, cause i'm suddenly going into 1 gallons with bettas:%)

Hope you didn't wash away according to the weather announcements ya'll got it bad this afternoon and evening...check in heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Heidi has no self control when it comes to bettas. She is still cussing me out for getting her started. And I think she is aggravated cause I force myself not to collect them. Also good that I much, much prefer crowntails, so the vieltails I see don't do much for me.

Hi All,
there is only one way to counter this problem, go and work at a larger Aquarium Store where they have 8/900 plus tanks, 500 plus bettas to care for and you are never finnished cleaning tanks, waterchanging, caring for the stockload 20,000 fish plus, and if you haven't had enough, you can go and get the quarantine room ready for the next shipment. I worked there full time for 18 months, this soon kerbed my multi tank syndrome. I now only have 4 bettas. You can have to many tanks and make a mess of things, just ask me. Do only a couple of good tanks and leave it at that. If you fill up the home with tanks you really do have problem. Muss :%)

Oh tanker you are just getting started I am still debating where I am going to set up these 3 new tanks, and 1 refurbished tank I thought had a leakbut still needs a hood:%)

I really think we all just about need a counselor, but since we are all too poor because we spend all of our money on fish and fish stuffes, we must counsel each other:%) but how do you counsel someone on a disease that you yourself hasSo I must say that we are one large helpless group

heidi


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And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged
We came together, fell apart
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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Oh thank God Tanker, I thought you were serious! Sad to say, I've met a few people who actually talk like that...
My bad!
*puts tanker on the cool list*

Last edited by djtj at 23-May-2005 17:52

Poor DJ, laboring under the assumption that I am a serious poster, god forbid. MTS, didn't you read how many tanks I have running bud? Not 1, not 2, not even 3, I am at 45 total atm with 15 more waiting to be added to my garage racks. I think it's safe to say that if MTS where fleas, I would be infested at this point don't you?

right now, in my living room, i have a 55g, 20g, 10g, two 5g, and a 2.5 and i'm cleaing a 40g to setup for split tank for multiple bettas. and am looking at setting up a betta breeding wall in my bed room

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

I know where the tanks are going when GG comesmy house, but folks let's not tell my landlady, I know her husband(?) was a bit worried and upset when my 125 drained halfway into my livingroom and aparently spread to the neighbors apartment yesterdayoops

and i won't forget to ask Ms. Rose or Ms. Mary about a turtle, I suppose I'll be caring for it as well while GG is here, won't i want me to take the 2-10 gallons that are running, Gofish in his 2.5, and Mimi:%) But, I'm not taking Sheila

heidi

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And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged
We came together, fell apart
And broke each other's hearts, Remember when
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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

lol Tanker, here I am a 50 some odd year old woman, and I am wondering how to hide tanks from my mother when she comes to visit.

Psssttttt...Heidi...don't forget to ask life skills for a turtle...Don't tell GG.

dj I think tanker was making it into a jokeor I hope so my poor psychiatrist new i had a problem immediatelyanytime i go somewhere that i know there will be a possible wait i take a book with mewell, i uh have been big on reading different fishie book lately, and well i kind of took in one of the books and i think it probably gave away the slight problemand I believe when the new DSM V comes out MTS will be in it

Think I'll go now and take in some more melafix, and aquarium salt, i might need to add a drop of stress coat, and pimafix to balance me tonight!)


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Remember when old ones died and new were born
And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged
We came together, fell apart
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Last edited by heidi michelle at 22-May-2005 19:08

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Tanker, it's a joke.

Sometimes, you have to have some humor in life. Obviously I am not "sick" because I want more fish tanks (unless my betta had something to do with my recent bout with strep throat). But it is funny to say so. Take a page from heidi and loosen up man. That's the point of message forums like this. Not only do we talk about our interests, but we express our personalities and form friendships with each other. If all we did in chat and the rec. room was talk about fish keeping, this would be one boring site. But inside jokes like MTS help keep FP alive.

And for the record, ET is a movie, not an urban myth. And bigfoot is my grandpa when he stopped shaving.



Now, without further adue, the number one solution for a fishtank is.........................................................a girlfriend!

Sooner or later, you'll be spending all your money on other stuff. As for me, I am planning for more tanks, but I'm in no rush. You have to learn patience. After 2 years of fishkeeping, I've gone through some crazy stuff which has kept me preoccupied. Think about deciding where to put your 180 gallon dream tank as you realize you don't know where you'll be living tomorrow. I've gone 2 years with about 5 gallons of water and 2 fish. But, I've done enough dreaming and research to make me a contributing memeber to this site. If you don't have humor, you have nothing.

Last edited by djtj at 23-May-2005 09:42

PssssstTanky is in denial

And the best thing to fix any of us, is a shot of Melafix mixed with a some aquarium salt That will cure anything and everything that ails you

Have any of you noticed how those that don't suffer from MTS don't worry where their hands have been, or what might be on them and immediately stick their hands in the tank/or other fish keeping areaYet they are horribly concerned about washing them the second they pull them from the tank, Could someone explain that to me? I just don't get it ***shrugs, and goes off to make herself an iced mint tea with a dose of melafix and aquarium salt...***

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Although the common fix for this "problem" would probably be melafix.....)

Mmmmmm, Melafix...

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Back in the saddle!

LOL... Tanker, that is quite an insight. Hope we have no health insurance professionals around here... We'd all be medicated!!!! (Although the common fix for this "problem" would probably be melafix.....)

I think MTS is an urban myth, akin to bigfoot and e.t. maybe. Personally, I can't think of a single person I know who has ever suffered from such a malady. Granted, I have more than 1 tank, 10 in my home and 35 in my garage in fact. But to call it a syndrome like it was some sort of illness or compunction like ADD or OCD just seems wrong to me on some level. Granted, I may have to seek financial counciling on occasion to float my ever expanding financial gloom. Granted, I may suffer the occasional bout of handwashing, but only before dipping them into a tank. Granted, I may have a compunction to endlessly count my fish. I may even be a little bit anal about what types of organisms are living in my tap water, but, to label me as having MTS, I think thats just libelous and the meanest form of slander possible. After all, if word were to leak out my insurance premiums might go up. So once again, MTS is a myth, don;t let anyone tell you otherwise.

i have two tanks in my room, 25 and 35 G plus two rats, and in the future it will have 1 hamster and a smallish fish tank for either apple snails of frogs........

i only have a single bed and my room is tiny, I have no clothes space due to fish tanks but still i dream about fitting a 6 foot tank in somewhere..... its complete maddness

GFG
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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3 in my room

I definately have MTS. I am new to the hobby, and just have a 10g and a 5g in my room, one on each dresser. I rescued my brother's last fish and now want to put a betta in his 2g (it was free). I wish I could get a bigger tank. I actually found a good deal on a 55g and will have the money to buy one soon but since I live at home, mom said absolutely not, even though we have the space downstairs. Guess I'll just have to get more small tanks until she lets me have a big one. Now I have to concentrate on the tanks I have since I can't have a bigger one. When I have my own place I want a tank in every room! :%)

*Kristin*