Does anyone have this problem of MTS ?
That's MTS = Multiple Tank Syndrome.
How do you deal with it?
I'm stocked up as will be noted below.
Most of my tanks are all "low budget", except of course a generator was added to the house, and there are hundreds and hundreds of corals and probably 40-50 fish.
Spread out over 6 tanks.
65 Gallon Red Sea Max 250 now complete, can't stuff it with any more corals. At least 19 fish in there.
Giant weeping willow fragged to 2/3 of original size back in March (to get ready for NY/NJ reefapalooza) got frags from 1/2" to 2" and one or two 3". About 18 frags in total. I've still got about 6 or 7 left. The mother colony is back to nearly original size in 6 months. Sand bed.
33 Long - Top tank of a stand is mostly a collection of anemones and growing out frags of GSP, Weeping Willow Toadstool, Mushrooms, Royal Green Crown Leather, an Eleganse coral, Zoas. Anemones from long tentacle green, Three Rose Bubble Tips, Two Rainbow Rose bubbletips, one Green bubble tip, one Acid Wash Green Bubbletip, multiple rock anemones. Barebottom. Stax rocks and some Live Rock. 10 or so fish in there.
33 Long - Bottom tank of a stand is filled with Pulsing Xenia, Anthelia, Torches, GSP, Zoas, Tyree Neon Green long tentacle Toadstool, Neon cabbage leather, Blue clove polyps, Mushrooms. Mostly all live rock - just 3 moderately sized pieces with some rubble. Bare bottom. 10 or so fish in there.
Fluval 5 Evo. Anthelia, Hammer, Arctic palys, Stardust palys, Armor of God palys, Monti cap orange, Neon platygyra, some yellow psammacora with long purple polyps/feeding tentacles, Nuclear green palys, mushrooms. 8 fish in there.
29 High - mostly a frag tank with a bit of everything. Hammers, chalices, toadstool, GSP, Zoas, Palys, Montipora, Red tabling milliapora. Bare bottom. 1 small yellow tang. Many critters with hermits, emerald crabs, snails, peppermint shrimp.
30 Long - packed full of mostly soft stuff, Zoas, Palys, Leathers, but have a few acans, a chalice, GSP, Hammer, Frogspawn, Candy cane, Favia and actually this tank, which I do the least on, is actually growing some SPS - Pocilopora, Stylophora and a couple acroporas. Sand bed. 12 fish in there.
That's what I've got running in my Hobby (now nearly 3 years into reef keeping and saltwater.
Add to that 9 Freshwater Tanks.
All told, time in hobby as an Aquarist - 53 years.
Now if I can only figure out how to get pictures off my cell phone, to my computer and then upload them!
That's MTS = Multiple Tank Syndrome.
How do you deal with it?
I'm stocked up as will be noted below.
Most of my tanks are all "low budget", except of course a generator was added to the house, and there are hundreds and hundreds of corals and probably 40-50 fish.
Spread out over 6 tanks.
65 Gallon Red Sea Max 250 now complete, can't stuff it with any more corals. At least 19 fish in there.
Giant weeping willow fragged to 2/3 of original size back in March (to get ready for NY/NJ reefapalooza) got frags from 1/2" to 2" and one or two 3". About 18 frags in total. I've still got about 6 or 7 left. The mother colony is back to nearly original size in 6 months. Sand bed.
33 Long - Top tank of a stand is mostly a collection of anemones and growing out frags of GSP, Weeping Willow Toadstool, Mushrooms, Royal Green Crown Leather, an Eleganse coral, Zoas. Anemones from long tentacle green, Three Rose Bubble Tips, Two Rainbow Rose bubbletips, one Green bubble tip, one Acid Wash Green Bubbletip, multiple rock anemones. Barebottom. Stax rocks and some Live Rock. 10 or so fish in there.
33 Long - Bottom tank of a stand is filled with Pulsing Xenia, Anthelia, Torches, GSP, Zoas, Tyree Neon Green long tentacle Toadstool, Neon cabbage leather, Blue clove polyps, Mushrooms. Mostly all live rock - just 3 moderately sized pieces with some rubble. Bare bottom. 10 or so fish in there.
Fluval 5 Evo. Anthelia, Hammer, Arctic palys, Stardust palys, Armor of God palys, Monti cap orange, Neon platygyra, some yellow psammacora with long purple polyps/feeding tentacles, Nuclear green palys, mushrooms. 8 fish in there.
29 High - mostly a frag tank with a bit of everything. Hammers, chalices, toadstool, GSP, Zoas, Palys, Montipora, Red tabling milliapora. Bare bottom. 1 small yellow tang. Many critters with hermits, emerald crabs, snails, peppermint shrimp.
30 Long - packed full of mostly soft stuff, Zoas, Palys, Leathers, but have a few acans, a chalice, GSP, Hammer, Frogspawn, Candy cane, Favia and actually this tank, which I do the least on, is actually growing some SPS - Pocilopora, Stylophora and a couple acroporas. Sand bed. 12 fish in there.
That's what I've got running in my Hobby (now nearly 3 years into reef keeping and saltwater.
Add to that 9 Freshwater Tanks.
All told, time in hobby as an Aquarist - 53 years.
Now if I can only figure out how to get pictures off my cell phone, to my computer and then upload them!
