Number of tanks poll.

[MikeP]

Man do I feel like the fish nerd. everyone else has one or two and I weigh in with 7! In my defense a lot of the tanks (most are pretty small and not high maintenance). The bluespot I just got after seeing him in partners the other day and will be going in either the 46 or 75 eventually, maybe even the 18 but I don't want him kicking sand all over my corals. The LTA will end up moving before long I'm sure too if he stays healthy and growing - just the longspine kept bashing into him and making him uproot and float around tank.


*46 Gal bow Reef - 18 gal sump, urchin skimmer, eheim return, 400 w VHO , 2x AC402 Phs , 6 gal Nurce top off , HOB Ecosystem Fuge w/ mixed macros- Midas Blenny,3 Neon Gobies, 2 Bangaiis, 3 Peppermints, 2 Skunk Cleaners, Serpent Star, All kinds of snails, All kinds of hermits , Capnella, GSP, rhodactis shrooms, Galaxea, Heliopora, Trachyphylia, Pearl Bubble , Platygyra, plating Monti, Green Hydnophora, Yellow Porites Frag, 50 lbs live rock, longspine urchin, tiger tail cuke

*18Gal Nano/Cube Reef- 96W Powerquad, Inline 3 gallon refugium w/ gracilaria/chaetomorpha , RIO 50 ph, 25 lbs rock, yellow polyps, toadstool, kenya tree, sm green trachyphyllia, red fungia, green ricordea, purple ricordea, zoos, green sinularia, shrooms, Fire Shrimp, 3 Zebra hermits, 6 Asst Snails, 2 pistol shrimp , 2x yellow watchmen, 6 line Wrasse, tiny tuxedo urchin.

*75 Gal FOWLR (for now) - 30gal sump / fuge filled with mangroves, tunze 215 skimmer, mag return pump, 50 lbs LR , Niger Trigger, 2x Coral Catfish, Regal Tang

*7 Gal Minibow 32w pc Aquaclear Mini, rio ph , Purple LTA, 1 true percula, 10 lbs LR.

*6 Gal Eclipse 5 lbs LR, 1 Blue Spotted Jawfish

*20 Gal Acrylic Hex , magnum HOT filter - 5 lbs LR, 1 Peacock mantis and an indestructible domino damsel.

*18 gal tall - the Penalty Box / LR curing-holding tank : contains all kinds of angry crabs and hitchiker crustaceans other people didn't want and a few that went nuts in my reef tanks. I like to call it the crustacean version of the Manson family.

Ok so someone please say they have more tanks than me so I don't feel like the total dork :? :roll: :shock:

[Tim Marvin]

I weigh in at 7 also ranging from 20 gallon to 350 gallon.

[djdubdub]

Jeez man... Where do you work??? I need a job that pays the money to have 7 tanks... I'm gonna have to get a second job for just my 1 55 gal. Holy smokes man...LOL...

Do you have a website so we can see "what you got"???

[Tim Marvin]

I work as a surgical assistant at every hospital and surgery center from Georgetown to San Marcos.

[MikeP]

I'm not rich , I work 40+ hours a week as a network administrator(thurs, fri, saturday, sunday evenings blah) plus take about 10-12 credits of school every semester (can't decide between archaeology or marine biology as a major). Between school and work I do a lot of my stuff on the cheap with the tanks - buying used etc. I mix up about 30 gallons of new salt water at a time and that lasts me about 3-4 weeks on water changes plus going through RO/DI water (cheap). I kept freshwater tanks for about 8 years and saltwater tanks previously for about 2 years as a kid/teenager before getting out of the hobby when I discovered the joys of women and booze :) Tanks are a cheaper hobby currently than the aforementioned ones - heck I don't even own a TV (traded it to Vinh for aquarium stuff :P ) I just plop down on the couch and zone out watching my reef!

[djdubdub]

Hey Tim... Would medicinal Ca be the same you would buy from your LFS???

[z28pwr]

I'm weighing in at 8 Tanks.

720
200
180
150
75
75
40
20

I'm trying to skim down to 4 tanks since it's a PITA to maintain them, and that's with the 720 & 200 being down.

[TexasState]

heck I don't even own a TV (traded it to Vinh for aquarium stuff )

Now I can look at my tank, surf the web, listen to the radio, and watch two TV's at the same time.

I only have one tank. I'm pretty good with self control. :roll: Yeah right!

[Janice]

3 marine tanks, 1 FW tank in the bedroom. Already sold 3 of my other tanks because maintenance was beginning to become a PITA. :grin:

[Triggerman]

i really like those blue spotted jawfish to, they are cool man. i had one a few weeks ago but i sold it, i wanted to keep it so bad but i didn't have a place to put him. i might have to do what techno did and put him in a sm. tank by himself so i can order another one, or try to get a pair going. its so easy to accumulate tanks because there are so many cool things out there.

ray

[RedDragon]

I have a
10g mini reef tank
37g eclipse(got from Vinh) thats still cycling
soon a 120g (from Hammer,Ed)
and a 55g (freshwater)
and I thought that was a lot my den if full of tanks in every corner :-D