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You start off with one little 20 gallon mini reef tank in your living room. It looks great, but there just isn't enough room in the mini tank for another coral in it, so you build a 55 gallon tank, set it up for corals and move everything into it, plus the new corals.

Since you already have the 20g set up with reef lighting, you convert it into a Nemo tank with a nice Bubble Tip Anemone and put it in the den.

Then you see a really great little DIY 12g Seahorse Tank with a pair of Dwarf Seahorses. The first DIY Seahorse Tank was so easy you built 2 of them (one for the bedroom, one for that end table next to the TV... Too Many Aquariums When?

aqua loon

you spend more time watching your tanks than you do the TV !
—Guest peter waters

duh

when you use more water on your fish than you do on your self!!
—Guest aaron

Too Many Aquariums

when the cost of feeding the fishes is more than that that of your family.
—Guest ap

You have too many aquariums when

you can't move properly because there is too little room and you had to quit your job to maintain them all.
—Guest Clownkeeper27

Too Many Aquariums

When you have them in every room including the bathroom and laundry room!
—Guest prettypearl

It all started with...

We had a house built in WA with a spot for a built-in 125g aquarium. Went to the LFS to see about an aquarium and look at fish. We ended up in HI with over 3,000 holding system, collecting and shipping fish for a business for 12 years.
—saltaquarium

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