One tank enough?

[Adrinal]

For this community it would be impossible to have only one tank.
Now work with me here... this gets mathamatical...
First most of us can agree we have a nice little community here.
So, as a community if all of us had one tank... cept FM he keeps all his tanks...
we would still average 2.31 tanks a person!!!

What was the question again?

 

[freshwatergal]

Well, I started out with just one 20 gal tank (my puffer tank). Then I wanted to set up another 20 gal tank for an elephant nose, but found the puffers instead. Then I saw the 46 gal bowfront on sale at wal-mart around christmas time and I just had to have it. Then I had a 10 gal sitting around and made that into my first betta tank. I bought another 10 gal and a 5 gal with lots of supplies from someone for $40, prolly got ripped off though. The 10 gal is my second betta tank, and thinking about making the 5 gal a betta tank as well. I do have another 10 gal in the attic that I could set up.

Oh and let's not forget my 1 gal betta keepers.

My mom has a 55 gal, 20 gal, and 5 gal set up at her house. You might as well call them my tank because I am the one who takes care of them, they are just at her place. In her 55 gal tank she has an iridecent shark that I bought for my 20 gal tank about 4-5 years ago. (I didn't know any better on the shark.) She also has a pleco that's a pretty good size and she has had him for about the same amount of time.

Anyway that's my story...so my count is
1-55 gal
1-46 gal
2-20 gal
2-10 gal
1-5 gal
9-1 gal

 

[Eelzor]

Never!! I have 5 tanks and it definatly ain't nuff 4 me @ this point in time.

 

[noop]

So, as a community if all of us had one tank... cept FM he keeps all his tanks...
we would still average 2.31 tanks a person!!!

but if we added all our tanks together to make one big one, how big would it be??

 

[Pointy_kitty]

What I find amazing personally is that people have EMPTY tanks sitting around.....I myself am looking at anything that can hold water and thinking....what if......

 

[GoldenPet]

NO WAY!!! For a fish lover trust me they would have more than one tank cause it is like drugs u need more and more and u just cant stop i know from my friends experience.

 

[wuvmybetta]

Nope, there's no such thing as too many tanks . I have entirely too many and I'm already planning the next two big ones

 

[CFC]

I could cope with one tank easily :smb: just so long as it was a couple of thousand gallons and had dividers to stop big fish from eating little fish

Too anyone who keeps fish for more than just a pretty feature in the livingroom one tank will not be enough, at some point you will want to breed some egg laying fish, oops need another tank, then you will need somewhere to grow some fry out, oops theres another one, then you will want to try bigger or more predatory/territorial fish, they cant go in the community tank so here comes another tank, then comes the urges to build perfect biotopes to see your fish in the closest thing to nature possible other than taking them back to the amazon/far east/africa, the other tanks are already a mix match of continents and decor and you dont want to have to strip them down or take fish back so guess what, here comes another tank

I was up to 13 tanks at the beggining of this year but due to pressure off the mrs and a impending house move ive down graded to just 8 by cutting short all my breeding projects and bunching fish up into tanks that had space reserved for new fish, but this is just the calm before the storm watch this space for a 30 plus tank fish house being constructed in the late part of this year to the early part of next.

 

[smileandnod]

I could have just one tank, but it would have to be really

HUGE

 

[caz27]

I have 3 tanks and if it weren't for the lack of space i would most definatly have more ........Its an addiction you spend loads of money on it and most people think you are nuts or lost the plot :

 

[JAYJT]

Wish i had the room for more tanks!

Maybe when we move house

 

[kingkong]

i voted no one tank i never anoth

 

[Adrinal]

I could cope with one tank easily :smb: just so long as it was a couple of thousand gallons and had dividers to stop big fish from eating little fish

even right there thats not really one tank now is it....

 

[freshmike]

I want 10-230 gallons, please?