My MtS tank thread .. 6 tanks is fine right?

Hope I can figure how to add to signature !
Here are my tanks - always works in progress but here they are today. Yes I got MTS real bad.

55 gal Angelfish - fake black water (water is to hard to get true blackwater right now)




40 gal Tetra Tank - 6 white skirts and 20 cardinals. This is a algae nightmare tank!




55 gal Community tank - overstocked maybe but my healthiest tank for algae and best fish growth so idk!
1 rainbow shark
1 Gold Gourami fish - tank boss
5 mixed “Australian“ rainbows 3 males 2 females
5 Glossolepis dorityi “zig zag” rainbows
8 red phantom tetras




40 gal - surprise fry tank is nearly overrun with algae but parameters are ok and the babies are growing and doing well so far. (Off spring of some millennial red rainbows)



Forgot my Rainbow tank

55 gal
9 bosimani 3 males 6 ladies
2 yellows - pair
1 sad lonly red male
6 “green” corys




and finally 10 gallon hospital tank that also got surprise fry from community tank moss …so who knows




thanks for viewing !

 

Your tanks are lovely! Probably shouldn’t encourage your MTS further but if you were to do another tank what would it be? Or are you at max tank limit (self imposed, spouse/family imposed, etc).

 

Lol apartment constraints but i coukd do another !

I’d like to get a 120ish and combine my rainbows, ive seen just how big they can get.
The suprise fry 40 was supposed to be my next scape and was to have barbs .. maybe odessa or regular tigers probably just the one species.
I doubt ill add any thing new in this space but if I move ….. well now lol!
Thanks for reply

 

I like that you almost only have big tanks. I have MTS too. I have four fish tanks, even though im only one year into the hobby XD

 

Well, after 2 years I'm up to 7 tanks. Sizes from 32g to 55g , plus 1 - 15g with only Danios, used as QT.
I'm out of room now, so won't be adding more..
Right now, my driveway is fully blocked by snow. Pipe for house water froze and burst 3days ago. I have 55g stored water, so have reduced water changes from 50% to 15% temporarily. Hoping to clear driveway this week, as temps are now above freezing.
I'm unwilling to use melted snow for fish,. Concerned about pollutants.

 

Yeah, and that would be a lot of work too since snow is ten times less dense than water

 

Yikes i lost power for an hour and was freaking a bit. I have insulation boards and battery air pump (need more) etc but i lost 4 degrees room temp in 90 mins.

 

I also have 6 tanks, and yeah its "fine".

But I think one more is really the sweet spot. Just one more...

 

I like that you almost only have big tanks. I have MTS too. I have four fish tanks, even though im only one year into the hobby XD

Thanks LFS advised at least a 40 so thats what i started with .. i wish i had done 75s not 55s very little up front difference but i did not know how much i would appreciate the additional depth. The 55/s work though.

I also have 6 tanks, and yeah its "fine".

But I think one more is really the sweet spot. Just one more...

Thaaaannks lol one more ehh

 

Yikes i lost power for an hour and was freaking a bit. I have insulation boards and battery air pump (need more) etc but i lost 4 degrees room temp in 90 mins.

I live in the area or British Columbia Canada where the crazy heat wave hit this summer. It was 49.5 C once, and I was kinda scared that my fish would die. That wasn't a very nice experience. My fish tanks had a temp between 28 and 33 C.

 

I live in rural Okanagan BC as well...rural area..700 meter elevation, 120 meter steep driveway..

 

I live in rural Okanagan BC as well...rural area..700 meter elevation, 120 meter steep driveway..

Yikes. more the Joe rich area? or Grindrod? I live in Grindrod

 

Rural Summerland side of Rattlesnake mountain..

 

Rural Summerland side of Rattlesnake mountain..

That just sounds rugged or something….directions from a western movie

 

Rural Summerland side of Rattlesnake mountain..

Nice.
What’s your favourite fish store? Mine is 'The Purple Seahorse'

 

Yeah, I like Purple Seahorse also. But of my cichlids were ordered and shipped from Live Fish Direct in Utah. Multies came from Angelfins in Ontario.

 

Yeah, I like Purple Seahorse also. But of my cichlids were ordered and shipped from Live Fish Direct in Utah. Multies came from Angelfins in Ontario.

Cool

 

I have used live fish direct and also imperial tropics for rainbowfish.

speaking of - could not seem to edit first post, but here is the updated rainbow tank

 

Thats so beautiful. The plants look so healthy . I really want to keep rainbows right now, but I don't think I have enough space for them

 

Thats so beautiful. The plants look so healthy . I really want to keep rainbows right now, but I don't think I have enough space for them

Thanks! Plants are just in (well the Vals anyway) hopefully with every other day water changes for a bit and root tabs I can keep them going …or they will melt and new ones will grow up …that will take a bit. Rainbows can get BIG you can see a pic of a huge one in one of my other posts and they really do want 5-6 to be happy.I had to take the huge ones to LFS as they outsized my others. They did leave me some fry and 12 are still going from 11/15 so will see. Eventually would like a 120+ and combine all my rainbows.