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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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Remember when old ones died and new were born
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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Remember when old ones died and new were born
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
And broke each other's hearts, Remember when
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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.
Harvey S. Firestone

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*