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Am I insane What is it about these fish that hypnotize you into wanting more to look at? Yes I've AGAIN fallen for the trap of setting up another tank. This time I've gone for a cichlids community. I was wondering just how many tanks do other people have and am I not the only insane person that makes more cleaning work for herself
It's getting that I want to look at fish in any resting place in the house.
Oh no does that mean the toilet is next??
Pics of your tanks would be great too.
Cheers
BubbleLover

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My Fish like swimming all day long,
They love my bubbles 'pop' on their bum!
http://photos.yahoo.com/shedevil_90

i'm up to a 150g, 55g, 40g, 30g and 2g sick tank. and i started with just a 29g back in late 2004. this is what they looked like last fall when i set them up, i am currently rearranging the 3 smaller tanks.

150g - http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/monkeyboy000/150_setup/150g-12-09-05.jpg - going to be cichlid tank

55g - http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/monkeyboy000/Tanks/55g-2-07-21-05.jpg - FW community

40g - http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/monkeyboy000/Tanks/40g-split-07-21-05.jpg - betta tank

29g that started it all - http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/monkeyboy000/Tanks/29g.jpg

forgot to add, i'm on first floor of an apartment building that has no basement and poured concrete floors. i'd have more, but i just dont have any more floor space.

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

2.5g
5.5g
4x 10g
20g
29g
30g
75g

So that's 10....

I'd have more if we weren't in a small third floor apartment with wood floors...

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Wow, Theresa_M, do you have any more pictures to show us, I'd love to see the other tanks just out of shot.

I only have two aquariums 1 x 49g and a smaller 2 foot (not sure of the volume).

I really would like to get a larger tank - 72 x 24 x 18 would be great. My Clown Loaches need more space.

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Those who say they cant, Never will !!!

How many tanks period or how many tanks in use?

I have a 46 gallon and a 2.5 both in my bedroom. I also have en empty 10 gallon that used to house shellies and an empty 7 gallon that I planned on doing something with but it's on hold right now...

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Back in the saddle!

Wow I'm not insane after all......or are all of us insane??
There are some nice looking tanks, Theresa OMG they look beautiful......I'm just wondering if your hubby/partner is an electrician.......I'm thinking of all those power points needed.
I'm hoping more people will reply, I love looking at other peoples tanks.

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My Fish like swimming all day long,
They love my bubbles 'pop' on their bum!
http://photos.yahoo.com/shedevil_90

Ah the joys of MTS! I started witha 2 gallon betta set-up. I now have:

55 gallon (under construction)
29 gallon community
10 gallon ACF tank
4 X 2 gallon betta tanks (two at work)

Okay, so that's 7 tanks all together...wow, I'm a sicko too.

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

I just got a few only.
1 5g tank with betta
1 10g tank with betta
1 75usg tank.
And soon i will get a 500L/132usg tank.

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

I started 2 years ago with a 5g. It's empty now, but I have a 10g with a betta, a 29g community, a 44g with juliis, and a 125g community. I'm always on the lookout for more too! Especially free ones! My mother has an above ground pool that she never uses and every time I look at it all I think is "How many fish could you put in there??"

"Constant vigilance!"
Mad-Eye Moody

I've got a few fish tanks at home... At three, I'm probably on the lower side of the multiple tank syndrome, but only because my parents probably wouldn't be too excited about my tanks taking over their house. I've got a 125 "community" (it's meant to be, but it's only got a Royal Plec), a 55 gallon saltwater with two clownfish and soon to be more fish, and a 20 gallon tank that's divided between a Black Lancer and a Mudskipper and is basically a temporary set-up until I get home for the summer so I can do things. My empty aquariums include another 55 gallon, a 10 gallon, and a 5 gallon Minibow plastic thing that I probably won't ever use again... I've got plenty of ideas, but there are limits both because of parents and because of cash flow. Right now, cash is going towards expanding my existing set-ups rather than for equipment to set up more aquariums (which for some reason I lack... I guess I break equipment really easily or something...).

I should put more money towards aquascaping, though. My tanks are all pretty hideous or plain, which is probably why my parents banished most of them to the basement. On the bright side, my parents don't care too much what I do with them as long as I don't get anymore tanks.

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The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

Just one.

120.

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

46g- Mbuna Tank in my bedroom
15g- Livebearer tank
10g- Klaus the Betta's tank
1g- Snowy the Betta's tank
1g- Smokey the Betta's tank
2x empty 1g ^_^

I'm hoping to save so that when I move I can get a 90g and another 10g and a 20g

Inky

Theresa_M: i love the way you can put your tanks in a house setting, i have not been able to do that, my tanks are just in one area and often stacked on eachother, i got to find a way to make them more presentable.

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Koi

Empty chairs at empty tables, the room silent, forlorn.

I have to laugh when I read the replies. I think it's great you all have so many or even 1. We are ALL obsessed
Robbie would love to see pics of the 500L when your set up...there goes the bank balance!!!!

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My Fish like swimming all day long,
They love my bubbles 'pop' on their bum!
http://photos.yahoo.com/shedevil_90

This is the shot from the other end, near the computer. That entire computer/tank area is technically the 'dining room'

The 5.5g is on a kitchen counter, the 2.5g in my bedroom, and there is another double stand with 2x 10g in the actual living room.

I'd love to have a fish room if we ever owned our own place, but the spouse actually likes having the tanks in the type of setting they are now.

We moved here 2 years ago; I don't remember exactly how many tanks I had then, the 30g was the largest at the time. I do know that's something I don't want to do again for a very long time

The 29g is the first tank I had, it was a surprise Xmas gift from the spouse. He helped with setup for that one but I've done pretty much everything else myself.

These photos are actually a bit old and the tanks have changed some; I guess I should take some new pics

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One tank at work. One tank at home. 'nuff for me. Would love more to LOOK at and enjoy but two is enough to maintain in time and cost.

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Very nice Theresa.
Can I ask how often you clean your tanks and do you do them all in the one day
or do so many one day and the others the next??

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My Fish like swimming all day long,
They love my bubbles 'pop' on their bum!
http://photos.yahoo.com/shedevil_90

All the tanks get weekly water changes; sometimes my grow-out tanks are twice weekly.

I usually do all but the 75g in one day, that one is a pretty big project. Under the fish poster in the first pic I now have a dry erase board where I keep track of when the tanks last got cleaned.

I work nights so I get home, sleep for a few hours, do the tanks and then go back to bed.

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I am on the lower side also...only because I am in college and still live at home. My parents have put a limit on me so I can't get anymore tanks at the moment.

I have:
55g FW community
29g FW community
10g Betta/Harlie tank
5g extra plant tank
and an empty 38g which I hope to set up this summer and an empty 2.5g hex.

I would love to have something bigger than a 55g, but I will have to wait until I have my own place. Then I can have as many tanks as I want!

I'll have to post pictures later because I'm at work.

*Kristin*