Always good to have a qt.
I was about to tear mine down to make it a scud breeding tank when one of my mollies got sick…would have been very bad if I couldn’t isolate it.
What a joy it is to have Multiple Tank Syndrome!
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I was about to tear mine down to make it a scud breeding tank when one of my mollies got sick…would have been very bad if I couldn’t isolate it.
Lol, the things I had to go through to get a quarantine tank: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/...quarantine-tanks-learned.744547/#post-8392003
Fortunately I at least have one now. It will prove invaluable for all the new fish 2022 brings.
Fortunately I at least have one now. It will prove invaluable for all the new fish 2022 brings.
Something else I forgot to mention but would like to is that you can be very flexible in decorating multiple tanks, with much less 'wasted' decor.
I lucked out in this regard because I was able to use both the 'hand-me-down' caves from my clown loach tank that they would outgrow, and a piece of wood I got with my free 110 liter that crowded it a lot, to aquascape my 2022 loach tank. They are the 1st, 3rd, and 4th in the decoration sequence, being both an ideal size for the future loaches of this tank (unlike the clown loaches) and not crowding the tank (unlike the 110 liter).
I must say that I like using them like this a lot more than selling them because they were unsuitable for the tanks. Anyone had a similar experience?
I lucked out in this regard because I was able to use both the 'hand-me-down' caves from my clown loach tank that they would outgrow, and a piece of wood I got with my free 110 liter that crowded it a lot, to aquascape my 2022 loach tank. They are the 1st, 3rd, and 4th in the decoration sequence, being both an ideal size for the future loaches of this tank (unlike the clown loaches) and not crowding the tank (unlike the 110 liter).
I must say that I like using them like this a lot more than selling them because they were unsuitable for the tanks. Anyone had a similar experience?
I use decor from old tanks frequently. Makes good hides in qt or for my scud tank. Also good in reptile cages one out of commission.
I have six as well. 180,120,75, 20,10,5 and I’ve tried to get my wife into it, but other than her dragon puffer, she doesn’t care at all lol
I'm currently down to "just" 3) 180's, 1) 125, 3) 75's 2) 40b 1) 20L- i do have 2 40b a 75 and a 90 and 105 in my garage plus a cantex pool i need to work on but yes... i love being a mad scientist and moving things around as they grow ect. I have an Instagram handle MultiTankSyndrome.
Although my tanks are either CA or SA or a combo of the two with a few oddballs mixed in... i tend to stock the same way in all of them though. catfish, a big cichlid, a group or two of mediums cichlids, something silvery and schooly and something weird... just depends on the scale
Although my tanks are either CA or SA or a combo of the two with a few oddballs mixed in... i tend to stock the same way in all of them though. catfish, a big cichlid, a group or two of mediums cichlids, something silvery and schooly and something weird... just depends on the scale
Thanks for leaving it available for me on here ? ?
I happen to have this. 1 and a half years later and I have 5 tanks 
my pleasure... never occurred to me to try that name... i liked the dbl entendre of being a fan of fish and phish fan. works for my whole hippy with a business degree mindset
When I lived in Ontario, I had rocks and driftwood that had been in my possession, in multiple tanks, for something like 30 years. I changed homes a few times, but always moved myself by truck (relatively short distances) and I dragged all that heavy crap with me from house to house to house. My driftwood was all self-collected, usually big thoroughly dried-out pieces found on the beach; some of those things took many months to become waterlogged and sink. I would never let them go! If a piece didn't have a home in a tank, it would be submerged in an outdoor pond or tank to keep it waterlogged. And, yes, I had favourite stones...hundreds of pounds of them!...that I schlepped from one home to the next as well.
Moving to another province, which entailed the services of a mover, forced me to discard all that wonderful stuff...and it wasn't easy! I immediately started amassing a new collection here, and I always have a complete set of rubber boots, axes, saws, shovels and all the other required goodies in my truck. You never know when or where you will find an outstanding piece of driftwood; gotta be prepared.
I am fortunate to have a pile of rocks in my back forty here at home. It's at least 60 feet long, 30 feet wide and 10 feet tall; lots of granite and basalt, some limestone and other assorted stones, all glacially deposited and then laboriously dug up by hand and piled up by the original owners of this farm when they cleared a few pastures and hayfields. I've moved many hundreds of them to the house, for outdoor garden borders, tree circles, for use around my one inground pond and of course for my tanks. I will occasionally still bring home interesting boulders I come across elsewhere, but they need to be pretty special.
The closest I have come to actually buying tank decor for at least 30 years was when I bought a small plastic trashcan recently to modify for use as a hide for my Jelly Catfish. As soon as I find just the right hollow piece of wood, that'll be gone.
