Looking good!
How many tanks do you have in total?
In use? Uh... well... There are two community tanks (one 200l, one 65l) which are currently up and running in my lounge and this one that's cycling, one currently housing a few fry, one empty in the conservatory and one empty in the garage (a cheap second hand purchase which I'm not convinced is watertight)!
Yes, everyone thinks I've gone loopy.
My husband has always said he wanted a tank, back before he was my husband so a good few years ago - but his idea of fishkeeping went something along the lines of 'buy tank, fill with water, buy fish and plonk them in, sit back and watch them'. Having a bit of a notion it wasn't that easy I refused to give in!
Then at the beginning of the year, a new LFS opened up in town and watching the fish somehow I caved, we ended up buying a 65l tank and a week later (ugh!) some danios to put in it, followed by guppies and platies. If only we had known about fishless cycling!
I ended up buying a second-hand 20l tank on ebay about a week later which was going to be a hospital tank, but then found out how quickly guppies and platies breed and whipped out the ladies quick stat to their own home (too late...) .
Then, despite our best efforts and twice daily testing and water changes, we got a touch of whitespot. I was distraught and didn't know what to do as the hospital tank was full, and so I went on freecycle where a lovely lady was offering an Edge which I begged for and luckily she let us have it. So that made three tanks...
Treated the whitespot with salt and temp in the main tank and so there was mercifully no need for the third tank. Set up the Edge and fishless cycled it using a little of what was now almost cycled media. In no time at all it had cycled and so the ladies moved in - just in time for their first round of babies to be born, which instantly filled up the now-empty hospital tank.
By this time, all three tanks were cycled and obviously that's the time to start all over with a bigger tank... So in a fit of madness (others might say...) we got a Fluval Roma 200, in went the old filter and some filter media from both tanks into the new filter, in went the danios, guppies and platies. When we were happy it was all running along nicely, we added gourami, tetras, cories and Mr Bristles the plec.
The ladies were outgrowing the Edge, so we ended up setting up the 65l again and now it has a nice shoal of pygmy cories, a few extra platies and and a couple of nearly mature guppies, plus a grumpy clown plec called Plecostomus T Barnum.
But something was still missing... and that's when the madness finally took hold and I decided to get another tank, a second hand 125l Roma. Well, it was cheap and just around the corner....
This is my last tank, I promise! Well, it has to be. I have no where to put anymore!