Question to big tank owners...

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
never was into fish until i came home from college.... for some reason it just clicked and I'm addicted now!!! :grinyes: :grinyes: :grinyes:

so here's my story:
20--> 55--> 29--> 90 gallon -->????

started with an old crusty 20 gallon metal tank with two oscars that grew to about 5", figured that was waaaay to small for them and got a new 55 gallon to put the Oscars in. Well i got bored with them a week after when i saw these amazing colorful fish at the LFS --- African Cichlids. So worked out a deal and swapped my old Oscars for a few Africans. Also within that timeframe i ran across a great deal on a 29gallon tank, figured I'd use it some time... so the third member is added. About a month down the road I found out saltwater really isn't that hard, and I could do with the setup already in my house!!! :naughty: So back to the LFS with my bag of Africans and returned home with a bag of Ocean Salt!! So I got that running great with a few damsels and then quickly added some triggers and an a snowflake eel that i got for just $12!!! (the fish store was getting rid of saltwater and it was the last critter left... he was only about 6" then... Now he's about two and half feet!!) Ok, year or so later, the big fish store in town was having a yard sale and to my surprise there was a 90 gallon for only $40!! :woot: (the catch was a busted bottom) With no previous background in fixing tanks i thought, hey how hard could it be?? A hundred buck later and high off of Silcone fumes I have a 90 gallon for my fish to move into. And thats where I stand now.

...BUT there is a possiblity of a 225gallon on the horizon. Found in the classifieds for only 75 bucks!! :headbang2 and its a favorite of mine - a cracked bottom. Looks like it never ends...
 
Started with a 10. Then, went to a 60 followed shortly by a 125. Then a 240 follwed by a 400 that my dad and I built. Then, a failed home-built 500 (plywood defect- blew out before fish were placed in it). Next came a double-layered 900 that my dad and I built, also. Finally, a 2500gal pond, in the basement, with one side of glass (always had a slow leak). Then, I went in the Navy.
Now, my current largest is 650 but, I have an additional 13,000gals worth of tanks.
 
I had 3 10 gallons. Then a 60 gallon that wasn't properly maintained (young and impulse buy) and eventually gone to waste, then a 30 gallon that was an old tank and started to leak (had to throw it out). I still had a bunch of 10's. I had an above ground pond (that got dismantelled due to racoons always getting to the fish). Then I received a 12 gallon uniquarium for free from the pet shop I was working at. Then I received a 20 gallon from my Aunt when my Uncle passed away (R.I.P). Then I saved and slowly bought a 75 gallon set up. So I have 3 tanks running at this time: a 75 gallon tank, the 20 gallon tank, and the 12 gallon uniquarium.
 
We got a 25,then a 90,then a 66,then another 66,then another 90,then two 60s,then a 200 and 175 together,then another 200 and 75 together,then a 475 and a 420 together,then another 200.The 25 has gone along with the two 60s and except one 90 they are all in our lounge.Yes over 10 ton in the living room.Why???It all started with a black moor!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Howdy,

16 gal --> 20 gal --> 80 gal --> 220 gal
1980 --> 1990 --> 2000 --> 2005

I broke the 10-year upgrade cycle with my 220 gal. We'll see where I'm at in 2010 :D

HarleyK
 
Started out with 10 gallons when I was a kid, then it went up from there.
20, 40, 75 is my largest.
 
Started with a 75 gallon, a couple months later, me and my dad built a 350 gallon. Those are the only two i've got. :)
 
redtailfool said:
55 Gallon to 90 G tank owners :

What size tank did you have before switching to something bigger ?


Similar question to the bigger tank owners :

To those who have 100+ gallon tanks.. what size tank did you previously have before moving on to the "big one" ?
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I started with a 19 gallon comunity tank

Then

1 x 55 gallon Oscar tank and a 35 gallon Piranha tank

Then

180 gallon Large fish comunity

I'm trying to press the wife to get me another tank for the bedroom just another 55 gallon loaded with plants and some nice discus's and load it with Tetras and corys !

Not going so well tho !
 
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