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RE: minimum tanks (on topic/no spam)
Ok here is my situation, for those who don't mind the read.
I started keeping killifish just after the 2000 AKA convention here in
Tampa. (Should never have offered to help.) I started with Fn. fallax
CI98. Not exactly the fish to start with either!!! Anyway, I started with
that (2 aquariums to condition the pair separately, cause female got a
broken jaw and filed an injunction), Now 1.5 years later, I have 40 tanks
(soon to be 46) and an ever shrinking fish room.
It is my plant to "Maintain" 3 to 5 species of fish. The rest are my fun
fish. If they plop down into a rut then I will adopt them for maintenance,
of a fish comes along I like then the one that isn't quite working out for
me will get the bump at the next club auction. I currently bread about 20
different species of killie and just keep at least 10 other species. I will
say this but now one listen ok? (I like killifish better than African Rift
Lake Cichlids, and find them more addicting.)
BTW, I run all the tanks on the Jehmco L45 lineat compressor air pump, rated
at fewer tanks.
I also use the racks I got at Lowe's at 59 bucks plus the cost for 3/4 in.
plywood cut to size. Clearance between tank and the shelf above it seems to
be an ongoing issue and probably wouldn't be if I'd done it differently but
oh well.
I don't have my light situation quite like I wanted it, but that will come.
It is an ever-changing fish room that is for sure, but at least I have a
fish room now, as I didn't in May of this year. (Bought house in June!!)
I found a 24-gallon a day RO system for $100 bucks that fills a 32 gallon
trash can in the garage. I find a utility sink in the garage a must. Have
an extra fridge in the garage (it was left behind by the former owners of
the house). And have a desk (card table), which I found to be a must in any
fish room, with a bright extendable desk lamp. I also have 5 gal buckets
handy and 5 - 5 gal water bottles (carboys) for my RO, 1/2 and 1/2, and
straight hard tap water. My containers range from small clear plastic
containers I got at Big Lots, which are clear enough to make fair pictures
through, since I don't have a photo tank, to 20 gallon tanks, of which I
only have 3 or 4. I only have one tank out of room, and that is a 55 show
in the front hallway/foyer. That was the one freedom my wife afforded me,
the other tanks have remained in the fish room (unless broken of course.)
Ok nuff rambling,
Boat
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