Your Thoughts on a Fish Room

[Lepisosteus]

We will just say 5+ tanks is a fish room. personally I'm not the biggest fan of them, I enjoy having a few tanks but each one has to be well kept and in my opinion display quality. I prefer having 3 tanks that I would not have a problem putting I'm the middle if my living room over having 20 tanks that I keep hidden in one room. I think having a few larger tanks over many smaller tanks is better in my mind. I find fish rooms tend to be messy, and to enclosing. I understand their uses for breeders but they are not for me. I just want to place a couch in front of a few tanks and enjoy. Anyways that's just my thought, what is your opinion?

 

[davenmandy]

At this point I am drastically trying to reduce what I have to take care of. I have 2 large tanks and a puppy tank. A good friend of mine decided he wants to sail around the world for a year or two and wants me to take care of his saltwater tank sometime soon, which I would like to help him out but already having some misgivings. I have a beautiful 180 gallon bowfront sitting in my living room begging to be set up, filtration all ready to go, and all I have ever wanted is a giant moray eel, but I just can't bring myself to have to maintain and spend money on another tank. Not a day goes by that I don't want to set it up and it takes everything in me to convince myself I can't justify it. When I have had my run in this hobby, maybe when kids and a more intensive job comes around, I am waiting for the day that I will only have one ~200 gallon tank to run. That day will feel like pure bliss I bet. Not that I'm complaining about what I have now, sometimes it would be nice to breathe though.

 

[Brent419]

I agree. I had considered once making a fish room but I really am no breeder. My pleasure in the hobby comes from sitting back and watching the fish in beautiful tanks. Thats very relaxing to me. The fish rooms I have seen have no comfortable seating and previously pointed out are not the "prettiest". I think if I had one, I wouldnt spend much time in there other than to do chores. Whatever floats you boat though. I know a lot of folks breed and I thank God for them.. Otherwise I wouldnt have fish to enjoy!

 

[matseski]

I don't see much purpose for the traditional industrial type fish room for general hobbyist. Fish are not that hard to breed and dealing with all the offspring can quickly become tiresome. Unless you want to start a business you are going to end up feeding your fry to your fish and that is a lot of work. The few I have been in are also very loud making me feel like I'm on a factory floor.

However, I and awaiting the day I can have a dedicated fishroom. I really enjoy the rooms in aquariums where there are a few dozen smaller tanks with different species in them. A fish room allows you to easily keep multiple tanks without much work. Water changes can be completely automated and with enough flow, smart filter design, and natural environments, there is little need to vacuum. Throw in some automated feeders and unless you want to give your fish a treat, you can sit in your dark room with a drink, your favorite music, and a comfortable chair and enjoy. I know how much enjoyment guests also have from my display tanks; I can only imaging how cool it would be to entertain in your fish room.

 

[Owens]

I don't do fish rooms. Any tank I keep will be a show tank, so only 1 or 2 at any given time.

I also tend to only keep large fish, so I would never have a need for multiple small tanks <100 gallons.

 

[Woefulrelic]

I enjoy having all my functionality in one room. I would prefer to net a fish and move it to its new tank than let it sit in a bucket while I secure the tank and prepare to move it to a different floor. While I don't prefer the look of the classic fish room I can't justify having multiple tanks spread across multiple rooms. I would like to have a fish room consisting of mostly larger tanks, for convenience purposes. I also am the kind of person who will pick a favorite tank and watch that more than others. When tanks are in the same room I give them more attention which results in better keeping most of the time. That said most of these are points you made against a fish room so we might define it differently.

 

[Ihsnshaik]

I had a tank of 500 gallons. That itself was good enough for me. It was a pain to do gravel vacs and maintenance but rather do it on one big tank than 20 small tanks.

 

[HumanBean]

Not have a wague idea how to join multiple tanks but I totally agree with Lepisosteus . would be awesome to look at multiple tanks in a dark room with a glass of brandy, cohiba and some music to go with it awesome

 

[Freshwater4Life]

Yea I pretty much agree with everyone. One or maybe 2 nice show tanks. Sounds good when your thinking about it but in actuality the fish rooms i see usually come out looking kind of like a hoarders house. People see one nice big tank their impressed. Multiple 10 and 20 gallon tanks their concerned .

 

[Lepisosteus]

Not have a wague idea how to join multiple tanks but I totally agree with Lepisosteus . would be awesome to look at multiple tanks in a dark room with a glass of brandy, cohiba and some music to go with it awesome

that is exactly what is in my mind when I think about it. Maybe 3 6-8 foot tanks covering 3 walls with a nice couch in the center, dark room with only the tank lights on. Always dreamed of having one monster planted tank, one monster fish tank, then another big reef. All the same dimensions. Thought it would be nice.