How many do you think is too many? Obviously, the rule is that once it feels like a job versus enjoyment to take care of them, it's too much. But what's your magic number. On the thread "how many animals do you have", I said that I wanted to have somewhere around tens of thousands of gallons of tanks, along with tons of reptiles and birds. I have since downsized, as that many tanks would be a ton of work. My new list would all be in one room, after I move in on my own, and all the applicable ones will be tied together (within, say, 50 gallons of each other) and the ones that can't be tied together will be hooked up to a sump to make water changes as easy as possible. My list is now:
-1,200 gallon ply tank, housing amazon/SA/CA monsters
-65 gallon planted tank
-55 gallon brackish tank
-55 gallon FOWLR
-150 gallon reef (entirely zoas and palys, possibly LPS as well though)
-Rack of 6 20 gallon planted tanks
-180 gallon low-tech planted
-180 gallon bichir tank
-210 gallon bichir tank
-900 gallon FW ray tank
-29 gallon (biocube, likely) reef
-125 gallon FOWLR
-300 gallon FOWLR
-300 gallon puffer tank
-400 gallon turtle tank
-65 gallon reef
-20 gallon planted
-150 gallon planted
Potentially two stock tanks, both 8' in diameter, tied in together housing benthic sharks, no larger than that though
Reptiles would consist of a large wall of wooden cages (24 in total, focusing on a collection of mostly insectivorous medium-large lizards), a few medium glass tanks (from 30 to 65 gallons), a few 10 and 20 gallons, and then a rack of 10 18" exo terras for PDFs.
Sounds like a lot, gallonage in the fish room would be 6,000 gallons. This may seem like a lot however this is the sump size of some people's tanks on here. Does this seem like too much to you?
If you had the money for whatever collection you wanted? How much would you get?
-1,200 gallon ply tank, housing amazon/SA/CA monsters
-65 gallon planted tank
-55 gallon brackish tank
-55 gallon FOWLR
-150 gallon reef (entirely zoas and palys, possibly LPS as well though)
-Rack of 6 20 gallon planted tanks
-180 gallon low-tech planted
-180 gallon bichir tank
-210 gallon bichir tank
-900 gallon FW ray tank
-29 gallon (biocube, likely) reef
-125 gallon FOWLR
-300 gallon FOWLR
-300 gallon puffer tank
-400 gallon turtle tank
-65 gallon reef
-20 gallon planted
-150 gallon planted
Potentially two stock tanks, both 8' in diameter, tied in together housing benthic sharks, no larger than that though
Reptiles would consist of a large wall of wooden cages (24 in total, focusing on a collection of mostly insectivorous medium-large lizards), a few medium glass tanks (from 30 to 65 gallons), a few 10 and 20 gallons, and then a rack of 10 18" exo terras for PDFs.
Sounds like a lot, gallonage in the fish room would be 6,000 gallons. This may seem like a lot however this is the sump size of some people's tanks on here. Does this seem like too much to you?
If you had the money for whatever collection you wanted? How much would you get?
