So many boxes...

Our house contains many boxes. Some of these boxes contain the usual assortments of things that fill boxes; there are things that that can't be thrown away, things that simply don't have a place, and those that only have a place in their designated season.  Other boxes are filled with water - they are habitats for our wetter pets, small, mostly-rectangular ecosystems.

They say on the aquarium enthusiast forums that there is a thing called Multiple Tank Syndrome (MTS).. what happens is that once you get one tank, you want another, and another.. and so on. I thought this was just a rumour at first, but I'm afraid I succumbed to this syndrome fairly easily - perhaps having already given in to Gotta Get More Tattoos had weakened my defenses.

We now have more than a dozen tanks! In all honesty I say "we"  to make myself sound less crazy, but I'm pretty sure all of the tanks with the exception of 2 were exclusively my idea. Ideally, I would like to reduce this to 10- 12 soon.  It all started with a few bettas in small tanks and a great deal on a full 31 gallon setup. There were two things  that really got the MTS rolling. First, I found aquaria forums online and their wonderful members who not only dole out great advice, but also sell their used tanks and gear cheaply, and then some of our fish started reproducing!

Some of our tanks:

     

Apparently the next evolution of MTS syndrome is BTS, or Bigger Tank Syndrome, in which you are overcome with the desire to start swapping out your many small tanks for larger tanks, but I haven't seen any symptoms of this... yet.