I found the aquarium limit with the wife!

[johnnymax]

I guess I have been slowly turning our living room into a fish cave. For the last several years I just had my 75 long in the living room under our flat screen TV. Then a few months ago I set up a 20 gallon aquarium on a stand to the left of it. This weekend I resealed a 65 gallon aquarium with stand and set it up in the living room on the wall to the left, right next to my recliner.
I made the mistake yesterday of asking her when are we taking down the Christmas tree because I have two 20 long tanks I want to put there on the right side of the 75.
I blocked what she said, but I do remember the end of it. She said "Your gonna do what you want anyway!"
That sound like permission to me, right?

 

[tlindsey]

I guess I have been slowly turning our living room into a fish cave. For the last several years I just had my 75 long in the living room under our flat screen TV. Then a few months ago I set up a 20 gallon aquarium on a stand to the left of it. This weekend I resealed a 65 gallon aquarium with stand and set it up in the living room on the wall to the left, right next to my recliner.
I made the mistake yesterday of asking her when are we taking down the Christmas tree because I have two 20 long tanks I want to put there on the right side of the 75.
I blocked what she said, but I do remember the end of it. She said "Your gonna do what you want anyway!"
That sound like permission to me, right?

Yes sounds like a go to me if my wife said that lol.

 

[fishguy1978]

Sounds to me like she is encouraging you to add aquariums in another room of the house. Happy wife, happy life.

 

[DMD123]

My wife doesn’t mind the big tank (300 gallon) in the living room but always had issues with my additional tanks (5 currently) in other rooms like our home office. When I moved all the extra tanks out to the garage and made my fishroom out there she has never said a word. She likes them out of her space, lol.

 

[esoxlucius]

My wife only takes a very small interest in my hobby, almost to the point, i'd say, that she only just about tolerates it even. I try and encourage her, even letting her chose and name her own fish on occasion, but unfortunately she's pretty much still at the point where her eyes glaze over when i start waxing lyrical over something fishy. I am very conscious of the fact that should any of my tanks have any type of failure, and we end up with floors being ruined, I would say that could be my time in the hobby over!!!

Needless to say, such a catastrophic event is one which I hope and pray never darkens my door.....or anyone else's on the forum for that matter, because that would be the true tester for partners.

 

[fishguy1978]

I have set up a couple tanks for the wife that she then maintained. When we were in NYC she set up a 10g reef that I upgraded to a 30g against her wishes. She now has a 10g Neon tank in the kitchen and a 20g hex goldfish tank in the downstairs laundry/bathroom as a night light for our youngest.
I have brought up some fish I would be interested in keeping and have had her shut down the conversation with comments about needless expenses or adult responsibilities. It's not like a few hundred dollars for a fish is a big deal right ? . She is a good sport and does come down to the fish room occasionally. My choice of do get called into question as there aren't many brightly colored. There are some calls for another reef tank and my youngest wants a puffer, fresh or salt doesn't matter but needs to be one of the larger species.

 

[jjohnwm]

I guess I have been slowly turning our living room into a fish cave....I blocked what she said, but I do remember the end of it. She said "Your gonna do what you want anyway!"...That sound like permission to me, right?

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!!!

I no longer have any big tanks in the finished part of my house. My wife absolutely loves the 30-gallon tank in the den which houses a Stinkpot Musk Turtle we got years ago as a hatchling, and she oohs and aahs over the 15-gallon in the library containing Heterandria and Red Cherry Shrimp. I won't upset this delicate balance; all my other tanks are in the basement, either in a dedicated room or in my little workshop. These are unfinished areas, bare concrete floors and walls, exposed joists overhead. She won't go into those rooms...an attitude I applaud and encourage...and whenever I capture a particularly large and hairy spider or centipede down there I make sure to show it to her to keep the fear alive.

 

[Conner]

My wife has imposed a current limit of 3 fish tanks. Doesn't matter what size, but no more than 3 at a time. Our house is small enough that unless I turn the garage into a fish room, more than 3 won't really fit anyways.

She's never really been into the fishkeeping. She likes the heavily planted tanks more than the sparse ones with just fish.

Back over a decade ago, fairly early on in my fishkeeping, and when my wife was just my girlfriend, I had 2 x 125gal tanks, a 55gal tank, and 3 or 4 20gal tanks. I decided to take a contract job in Alaska (we live in Kentucky). I left town for 4 months, leaving my girlfriend to take care of the tanks with minimal help from my brother (also a fishkeeper), deal with my 2 dogs and 3 cats, and the absolute hellspawn of satan that was my roommate at the time.

I know that there was at least one flood related to a sump overflowing, and there was an incident with a spiny eel that got out of the tank and under the stand and dried up that she discovered by grabbing it accidently, but somehow she was still there when I got back from the job, and was even crazy enough to marry me!

 

[johnnymax]

Well, this was new to me. I found the threshold and just crossed it... We are starting to build a house, so this will allow me to confiscate more space for my aquariums not in the living room.

 

[fishguy1978]

Well, this was new to me. I found the threshold and just crossed it... We are starting to build a house, so this will allow me to confiscate more space for my aquariums not in the living room.

Sounds like an opportunity to have a room purpose built for a fish room