Help!! I'm addicted!

[finatic]

I can't think about anything but fish!!! I had a 10 gallon with a dwarf frog for a year. Started buying fish. Wanted too many. Bought a 55 gallon in February. Had 14 baby swordtails born last Thursday. Bought a 10 gallon at yardsale on Saturday for $2.00. Set up new and old 10 gallon tanks Sunday. One 10 gallon has my male betta, Mr.Blue and the dwarf frog, Mr.Frog in it. I don't have filters for that tank yet. The other 10 gallon tank has 6 neons, 2 featherfin danios and 2 cory cats. Trying to cycle it to put the baby swordtails in. I work at home. Very hard to stay away from tanks! My husband said living room too full of fish. I told him I needed a house with huge cement basement so I can have lots of tanks like Chiclid Master.

 

[finatic]

Sorry Cichlidmaster, spelled your name wrong. I do apologize.

 

[Jamnog]

i wish all i thaught about was fish id save a fortune on beer.

 

[Tanked]

i wish all i thaught about was fish id save a fortune on beer.

LMAO I'm with you Jamnoq as my SN has dual meaning (my love of aquaria and beer) hmmm, too bad the fish can't have beer. I have found myself spending an awful lot on aquaria though. and will continue to spend until myy 55 is up and running and I have a 10 to put my fiance's fish in. I want a semi agressive tank for the 55 and platy's, and sword tails would not do to well in there.

 

[gadazobe]

This is a very common disease amongst fish keepers and you'll find that most members of this forum suffer from it. It's professional name is MTS (mutiple tank syndrome) and unfortunately there is no known cure for it - it seems to get worse with time. It tends to be an expensive disease and the sufferer finds himself often delving into his coffers to supply existing fishies with novelties or to increase his ever growing collection of tanks. But not to dispair - you're in good company.

 

[Pondlady]

Hello, my name is Pondlady, and I'm a fishaholic

It started when I was very young. My mother gave me a tropical aquarium for my 10th birthday. She was trying to stop me from sneaking home things from the local lakes and ponds.

Once I started going to the lfs I couldn't get enough. Pretty soon I was stealing from the change jar in the kitchen. I couldn't help myself, I was a sick child. Every day after school I was at the pet store. 30 years later the owner still remembers me coming in and just staring at the tanks. Good thing it's pretty hard to shoplift a live fish or I could have ended up in jail

From there I got another tank, and another.... then saltwater. I finally gave up cold turkey when I got married and had no room to set up a tank. (but I still had a collection of tanks and equipment waiting in the basement ) Later when I bought a bigger house I started up two tanks and then dug a pond in the yard. Then I had to set up a tank in the basement for wintering the pond fish and another tank to keep the wild frogs over winter (water wasn't deep enough to prevent freezing).

The only thing that has kept me from setting up multiple tanks lately is the fact that I keep buying a new house every three years. I'll be starting my third pond next month (guess that means there will be a tank in the basement by this fall).

 

[finatic]

Tis a very expensive habit. Always want more. My tanks are very beautiful though. I wish I had a camera to show you. I just added a sunken ship decoration (very large) to my 55. Only bought front half at $50.00. Other half is $45.00. $95.00 for plastic tank decoration??? I even put green miracle beam light inside. It looks great at night with all the fish swimming through the holes in the green light. Kind of gives an eerie look to the tank. Am saving my pennies for other half of ship.

 

[wuvmybetta]

I'm afraid this is the wrong place to look for help with your addiction
I think I'm hopelessly hooked myself, I only started fishkeeping in February and now 4 months later I have 4 tanks 2 = 40+, 1 29 gallon and a little bitty 2 gallon betta tank and all I can think about is wanting a 100 gallon and where I could put it

 

[Alex]

I am not an addict, I enjoy the hobby loads, but I live with an addict. CFC would have us living underwater if it was at all possible; I want to go on holiday for a long weekend, he wants to but more fish and a bigger tank. When you live with a real (how did you put it Gad?) MTS sufferer you have to be a strong, understanding, slightly psychotic person. Though CFC did say he would buy me another tank to breed dwarf cichlids in, so it's not all bad.

 

[Jamnog]

well i think your all mad... multiple means three right?? phew i got rid of the smallone before getting the new bigger one so i haven got that disease well not for a long time and i cant imagine ill get it again for at least a week. i have to think of the cribs and crabs i cant verry well put them in together or the cribs and the shark or the shark and the crabs.... ut oh help help im having a mts attack

 

[LesGerber]

Lets see does a 55, (2) 29, (2) 10 count as MTS??If not we can talk about the 30 breeder and the 29 I have yet to repair........oh did I mention I am looking to get a rack for 12 more 10 gallon tank and heres the bad thing......We went to look at a house yesterday(small apartment now) and we werent saying the tv can go here and the couch there.......NOOOOOOOOOOO it was we can set up these tanks here ond those tanks there........So I guess I am guilty huh.......LOL



Les

 

[EddieW]

I'm there as well - bought a little bitty tank last September to help me get over a personal issue (needed something to relax me - it worked!)

Now I have four tanks on the go - a 1m long 160L tank with kribs, loaches, badis and angels; a 60cm 70L community tank with usual community fish; the original little tank with just a few cardinal tetras (was waaaaay overstocked until I learnt and got the 60cm) and a small q-tine tank (currently contains two pair of threadfin rainbows, should be moving at the weekend).

Trying to work out whether I can fit another 60cm tank in if I get rid of the two little tanks, or maybe I could get rid of the dinner table and put a tank there instead, actually thinking about it do I really need a sofa..... Oh no, it's getting worse

Eddie

 

[cichlidmaster]

Then there are those of us who are WAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY past MTS.

We don't even think about it anymore

CM

 

[mjcole12]

i think i suffer from that to ive got a 56 gal tank a 20 gal and a 15 gal

i sent a fortune on my 56 gal it cost £500 i then spent about £400 on equipment that i dont even use coz i was gonna set it up for marines but in the end i didnt

 

[fishdude]

U guys are lucky you have the money to spend. I don't even have a tank but I think I already have the syndrome ( MTS) if i had the money.