What do you guys think about a "fish room"

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At first I thought the idea of a fish room was a great idea. You could sit in one room and just watch every single tank. But now I am having second thoughts. I kind of enjoy while im cooking in the kitchen, watching the fish. Or when i'm going to bed at night, watching the fish. Or when i'm sitting in the living room on MFK look to my left, bam! another fish tank! I'm sure a "fish room'' makes it a lot easier for plumbing and whatnot but I'm starting to enjoy the fish in almost every room.

What do you think? Pros and cons of your fish room?
 
I think fishrooms are more for people who want to work with a group of fishes, and individual tanks strewn around the house for people who just like em. Just an opinion. I'm gonna be setting up both soon, in planning to turn one room in my house into a fish room, with 3 very large tanks. I'll still keep the others in the bedroom, foyer, and living room though. Maybe even add some more.
 
I've already told the wife the next house we get I want a fish room with a concrete floor a finished basement would be ideal. My plan is to have 1 show tank in the living room and all the rest in the fish room. The reasons I want a fish room are

1. I can have as many tanks as I want and not have to worry about the wife complaining they cluder up the house.
2. I can have monster tanks and not have to worry about the floor holding it.
3. I can have a "man cave."
4. I can have species only tanks and not have to worry about running out of room.
5. I can have a place to breed fish if I want.
 
erk419;3949142; said:
I've already told the wife the next house we get I want a fish room with a concrete floor a finished basement would be ideal. My plan is to have 1 show tank in the living room and all the rest in the fish room. The reasons I want a fish room are

1. I can have as many tanks as I want and not have to worry about the wife complaining they cluder up the house.
2. I can have monster tanks and not have to worry about the floor holding it.
3. I can have a "man cave."
4. I can have species only tanks and not have to worry about running out of room.
5. I can have a place to breed fish if I want.
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It's like you read my mind. I have a nice 75 gallon show tank in the living room. Stand, canopy, live plants and pretty fish. Yippee Skippee! Go down the basement and its a different story. 2- 180 gallon tanks, a 125, bunch of 20's, 40 breeders, 10's, 5.5's and even 2.5's. Nothing has to be super pretty and I can spill water on the floor, keep live worms in the spare fridge, burp, fart and drink beer while doing what I like to do, and as far as the wife is concerened, out of sight, out of mind. She still does complain about how much stuff costs, but when she spends $60 getting her toenails done, she has no room to complain.
 
Fishrooms are great if you plan to spend every available hour of your "free time" in there cleaning tanks and doing water changes,feeding and trying to figure out where you can fit just one more tank and where you can find 3 more electric outlets and turning your hobby into a job.:nilly:
I really do enjoy it 95% of the time but then the other 5% of the time when you really wish you could just relax and watch tv or sit on the computer never happens because you are still cleaning tanks or dealing with an issue etc it can be a pain in the butt.
But that all depends on how many tanks you want to keep.I pretty much stopped counting at 22 tanks. It takes me at least an hour just to feed the fish.About 20-30 hours a week just doing water changes and vacuuming gravel,checking filters etc.And then I guess the rest of the time its just enjoying the fish and walking around from tank to tank.
there's positives and negatives but you have to look at both.Think of all the cool fish you could keep that you couldn't before.All the positives you listed are all true. Just think of some negatives also and then see if you want to really commit to it.Once they are filled and theres fish living in them you will have no choice but to be committed.
All in all - I love it.
 
My room has 5 tanks in it. One is in my brothers room. I guess it's kinda a pet room, it's got a frog, geckos, turtle, and of course loads of fish.

I like having it all in one spot.
 
I think you are looking at it in the wrong way. You have a fish room and have the tank visible from every room in your house. Imagine a house built around a centrally located tank. You could see the tank from the kitchen, the bathroom, in the shower a porthoe to the tank, the livingroom......what fun. Going to get my tool box and start building!
 
Granted, I live alone but I love having my "fish room" (my living room). I don't own a TV (with netflix and internet whats the point?) Just an uber comfy coutch, tanks, computer and a rippin sterio. After a long hard day of class's and study I enjoy nothing more than some Floyd on vinyl, puffing on my hooka and watching fish.
 
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