Quote Originally Posted by 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!
Agreed!

Quote Originally Posted by piranhaking
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