Your Thoughts on a Fish Room

[Lepisosteus]

Amazing. But ON get too cold for few weeks how's the outside pond works ? Some mega hetater ?

No bubblers. That's what I used on my pond in the winter. I used to live at a marina and we used strong bubblers to prevent the ice from damaging boats that stayed in over winter. Keeps part of the ice open and oxygenated that water. These ponds were roughly a million gallons each. I'll post pics of the one at my old house

 

[hooliganATV]

i have tanks dotted around the house and sometimes i find myself sitting say on the stairs for an hour just watching a tank or sat on the sofa watching my dovii, they are there for my pleasure but i think i would lose this love of watching them if they were all in one place because there would be to much going on in one location to just watch what they doing.

and at the moment i can hide from wife and kids around the house and blame it on the fish, if they are all in one room then the hiding place is limited to one location hahaha

 

[Lepisosteus]

this was the pond at my old house with a few inhabitants. I stocked it myself when I was a kid. This pond had breeding pike and bass populations. Each spring I would walk the border of it and see what was breeding. At one point it had breeding goldfish, there were thousands of them until we introduced pike and bass. The often hybridized with the carp in there

 

[Lepisosteus]

Lol and then when he comes back I keep his live rock and skimmer as a fee and get my moray

just call it even after that lol

 

[davenmandy]

this was the pond at my old house with a few inhabitants. I stocked it myself when I was a kid. This pond had breeding pike and bass populations. Each spring I would walk the border of it and see what was breeding. At one point it had breeding goldfish, there were thousands of them until we introduced pike and bass. The often hybridized with the carp in there

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Very cool man. Great place for a kid to grow up and learn ****.

 

[Lepisosteus]

Very cool man. Great place for a kid to grow up and learn ****.

for sure, some of my best meories are from the old house. The pond taught me a lot, I made a lot of mistakes and lost a lot of fish that i put in there but it gave me very goid insight on how a lot of native fish spawn.Lots of fun stuff.

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

Its a good friend though. I'm with you but on the other hand if I needed a hand like that I would hope someone would help me, though I would be asking roughly 20 times more than he is with his 75 gal lol. Plus a good way to learn salt. I really wish I could go with him.

I may have missed it but is your friend going to move the tank over to your house or are you going to have to go to his place to take care of it?

As far as the original question, I currently have two tanks set up, a 29 gallon and a 10 gallon and am in the process of setting up a third, a 220 gallon tank.

As for my opinion, I think that the best option would be to have one or two, maybe three at the most, tanks that are in the main part of the house as really nice show tanks and then I am all for having a nice fish room with as many tanks as you want, if you have the time to maintain them. This may not happen until you are retired but it would be worth it to be able to keep many different fish and be able to buy, sell and trade fish at any time.

I really think that if you take the time to set some really good design ideas you can minimize the time it takes to do your maintenance. It might take a great deal of money and the tanks might not all be able to be kept show quality with lots of substrate, decorations, etc. However, I think that I would want the fish at that point. As long as they could be kept healthy and happy then I would not worry about having "show quality" tanks in the fish room.

I might be just dreaming right now because I've never had more than one or two tanks until now, so my opinion could easily change, but these are my thoughts as of now. I have been greatly enjoying the hobby for many years, since I was a kid.

 

[HumanBean]

this was the pond at my old house with a few inhabitants. I stocked it myself when I was a kid. This pond had breeding pike and bass populations. Each spring I would walk the border of it and see what was breeding. At one point it had breeding goldfish, there were thousands of them until we introduced pike and bass. The often hybridized with the carp in there

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Amazing. Must be very nice to grow up in an environment like this. I quite like the setup but bonus point for keeping pike nice fighting fish.

 

[HumanBean]

this was the pond at my old house with a few inhabitants. I stocked it myself when I was a kid. This pond had breeding pike and bass populations. Each spring I would walk the border of it and see what was breeding. At one point it had breeding goldfish, there were thousands of them until we introduced pike and bass. The often hybridized with the carp in there

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Oh wait a minute just realised something you are holding pike by its mouth ? Is that pike dead ?

 

[jhook]

I would love to have a fish room and a big >200g display tank. I'm going to have to wait until my 5 year old moves out in around 14 years and then try to convince my wife that, no seriously, it is a good thing.