Not like me (something different)

[Ginevive]

I decided to start up a basic 10g tropical tank. My friend at the fish store actually said "what's with you buying these??) lol. (she's used to me taking home goldfish; I really don't keep much else in the way of fish.) Here are a few pics; not much to look at right now but it's a start; two swordtails. I'll be adding/decorating it more in the near future.

[SPJ]

Looks like you're off to a good start.

[joepythons]

I miss having a fish tank setup .The last 29gal we had started leaking on the bottom seal.I am not sure how long it was leaking.Well the way i found out was i kept hearing a weird buzzing noise one night.So i turned off the TV and listened to try and find where the noise was coming from.Long story short,the water was dripping down on the 6way extension plugin cord:eek: .If i would have never investigated where the noise was comming from i dread to think of what might have happened .The water was not following the cord but dripping of off the woodstand onto the power supply.I really miss watching the fish just going about there lives.Looks like you will have a nice setup ,Congrats

[jknudson]

Fancy feeder fish! (Thats what we call them at work) LOL Looks like you have some baby fish planned for the future...and I'm sure you'll be overrun in no time.

You can never have "too many" fish tanks set up.

-Jason

[piranhaking]

You can never have "too many" fish tanks set up.

-Jason

i have to disagree with that. I had 10 in my room, 1 in the living room, one at my grandma's and around 15 i took care of at school. That was too many . "Water change" becomes a very bad word very quickly. I'm down to 3 in my room plus the others now and finally getting some other people taught how to take care of the waterchanges and glass scraping in the school tanks. One thing i noticed is there's no background on the tank. I cant really tell what's behind it, but if thats a window sill then you may be in for a couple suprizes. You'll have a hard time controling the temp in the tank, and with out a background the direct sunlight will make it a 10 gallon algae garden in no time. Really nice looking neon male you have there.

[Slithers]

cool.

i just got my 10 gal going about 2 months ago.

Good luck

[recycling goddess]

i don't use backgrounds either. i prefer to let the tank look more light and natural. we have downsized to 6 tanks (210, 135, 90, 77, 46 and 29). i use a python to do water changes... but in a 10 gallon a little gravel vacuum will work just great

i think you'll find tanks are like snakes... you never have enough LOL

congrats!

[jknudson]

i don't use backgrounds either. i prefer to let the tank look more light and natural. we have downsized to 6 tanks (210, 135, 90, 77, 46 and 29). i use a python to do water changes... but in a 10 gallon a little gravel vacuum will work just great

i think you'll find tanks are like snakes... you never have enough LOL

congrats!

Agreed!

i have to disagree with that. I had 10 in my room, 1 in the living room, one at my grandma's and around 15 i took care of at school. That was too many . "Water change" becomes a very bad word very quickly. I'm down to 3 in my room plus the others now and finally getting some other people taught how to take care of the waterchanges and glass scraping in the school tanks. One thing i noticed is there's no background on the tank. I cant really tell what's behind it, but if thats a window sill then you may be in for a couple suprizes. You'll have a hard time controling the temp in the tank, and with out a background the direct sunlight will make it a 10 gallon algae garden in no time. Really nice looking neon male you have there.

I have three tanks at home (46g planted, 75g saltwater, 10g tetras), 6 1 gal betta jars, and at work I take care of 200+ tanks total, 50 of which are saltwater, 150 freshwater....Water changes are easy ...unplug pumps, siphon each tank, add dechlor to sump, open ball valve (water in), shut ball valve off, viola!

I would love to have so many tanks in my house. I always seem to set up species tanks that aren't ideal conditions for other types of fish or just different aggression levels so I would have to keep them in separate tanks. With 200 tanks at home I could keep anything! But I don't have the funding to run 200 tanks, with filters, lighting, pumps, etc... The electrical bill alone would kill me.

Sorry to hijack Gin! Rock on to adding another water box!

-Jason

[piranhaking]

No background isnt a problem (i have some that way too), i just meant if its right infront of a window it might end up causing trouble. If its not then no worries. We had that problem with a few of the school tanks and I hate to see anyone else have to deal with the mess it can make. A python would make things nice with several tanks. I dont see how it would be possible any other way with tanks the size of those though. (for those who dont know a python in this case is a hose system that attaches to your sink facuet and pulls water out of the tanks, and also refils them and does away with the need to carry bucket after bucket after bucket of water though the house) I was mostly kidding about the first part of that comment about having to many though. The main reason I downsized was i just didnt have the time to take proper care of all that i had. I wish i still had them all set up.

[jknudson]

I was mostly kidding about the first part of that comment about having to many though. The main reason I downsized was i just didnt have the time to take proper care of all that i had. I wish i still had them all set up.

I knew you didn't mean it! Your name is piranhaking for a reason I'm sure. I know what you mean about not much time though...

-Jason