Ever feel your tank is "just not big enough"?

[Ocean Railroader]

I had a 20 gallon tank for my original group of Goldfish and Bluegills and they started growing and growing and someone gave me a 75 gallon ten years ago. Ten years ago the day we set up the 75 gallon I went to a local pet store and saw a monsterous 220 gallon tank that was far bigger then my tank and it alone killed the large size of my 75 gallon to me.

While this is going on I've always thought the 220's and the 300's gallon tank tanks where the Kings of the fish tank world but then I ran into 50,000 gallon cement and glass tank that was home built and the 2300 and 5000 cinder block tanks that the owner of them knocked down to make way for a 10,000 gallon tank. So now with seeing these monsters I'm ploting in my basement at how I'm going to eather turn a house with a abondoned swimming pool into a fish tank or how I'm going to take hunderds of cinder blocks and build a 5000 gallon to 10,000 fish room on to my house.


What adds to this is that I'm not going to get rid of the existing four comet Goldfish living in my 75 gallon fish tank right now the 300 gallon and the 10,000 gallon ideas would be for them.

 

[iHammer]

Very much so.

I started with a 37g, got bad advice from Petsmart, ended up getting a 55g, started doing some research, found out just how bad of advice I received and bought two more 55s. Then I said enough of this and went with one large tank and now I already want to move to a 240g.

I don't think it will ever end.

Believe it or not, it will, the problem then is that you still want a bigger tank but then if you make it any bigger it is just too big, and it no longer really qualifies as an aquarium really.

 

[peacock madness]

i started way back when i was itty bitty, the moms a teacher so her classroom always had a tank in it. not to mention the ones we had at home. as i grew older and got my own tanks they ranged from 10,20,37,55, and at one point i was up to 8-9 separate tanks with various species. now im slimmed down to 1 10gallon 1 55 im lookin to upgrade to a 75 orca 90 with a tall footprint and my 125 im lookin to upgrade for my pbass, thie 125 is gona be replace with atleast a 300, i hope lol.. i may dgnt get hogh on drugs but my fish keepin hobby keeps me on a good buz! lol but i do agree with one of the previous comments that stated that getting into the other aspects of the hobby such as aqua scaping and so on it wont matter how big ur tanks are. im in the process of turning my 10gal into a shrimp tank with co2 injection and tons or greenery..its all in ur aproach..but i still cant wait for my bog tank!

 

[k0y0te]

i started off with a 10 gallon. then i got a 55 and though it was big. a few years later i got two 75 gallon and though wow now these tanks a huge. a few months back i got a 125 gallon tank and think its big!! but i still want bigger...lol i luv to have 200+ gallon tank!!

 

[pacu mom]

When I got my 300 gallon tank, I knew that I about three years to decide if the tank was going to be big enough for our fish. It isn't. We are now in year 2 building a fish room to accommodate the new big tank. I have bought my last big tank. It will be the final and last home for my fish. They will not outgrow the tank. While there are many people with bigger tanks than mine, I will be happy and satisfied with what I have...it's all about providing suitable housing for your fish. If a 20 gallon tank works for your fish, then there is no reason to go bigger.

 

[Jenni]

I went from a 10 to a 10 & a 30, to a 10 & 2 30's, to 2 30's and a 55, to 2 30's and 2 55's, to 2 30'2, 2 55's and a 120. There's no end to the insanity, as long as the funds hold out!

 

[Fat Homer]

Not very monster of me, but I've been enjoying my smaller tanks a bit more than my larger ones lately. You just have to get involved with other aspects of the hobby like planting and aquascaping...

Lately i've been enjoying smaller tanks, mainly my paludarium... but at heart i'll always want that bigger tank to house all the monsters i've always wanted but won't (in the long run) fit in a 200G...

 

[spirofucci]

Heck yes! If I had the funds I'd have monster tanks and ponds all over the house and yard! Ultimately a 2000 reef tank!.

 

[DMD123]

I got back into the hobby after a 20+ year time away. The largest tank I had until then was 40g. When I started up again I got a 65g (Breeder footprint) and soon realized I wanted more than just my lone Midas. Within 4 months I had my 120g. Now after about a year I just purchased my 210g and am getting ready to set it up. But there are still those fish I wish I could keep if only I had a 300g....

 

[Bhack91]

Im happy with the size of my 120, my dilemma is that I can only do one setup at a time. And I have the misfortune of running into aggression issues even with community species, so Im fine with the size of my tank I just wish I had a few of em.