Its me or the fish! MTS

Many of us suffer from Multiple Tank Syndrome, but does it cause issues in relationships and how can we tell its becoming a problem?

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ahaha I infected my other half...so he has it as bad as me!!! ^_^

the only problems is causes is ..what its moved around first to set up a tank..and who gets to stock the tank.

I just read that article yesterday, and it planted the seed for my topic.. lol, its funny, and sucks for some people.

i got my other half into fish as well.. Ex didnt like em at all tho.. tried figuring out the differences and i couldnt find it

My Ex doesnt care about my obsession. My last girlfriend couldnt figure it out, and didnt want me to have the hobby. Wanted me to get into horses with her though. So, accept her hobby and bag mine. I bagged her instead.

I got my gf into it by giving her a 5.5 with a few guppies... Now she has a 10 and is trying to breed tiger barbs.... Gonna try to get her into keeping a 30 and breeding electric blue rams.... And at the same time I still can't talk her into bringing the electric blue hap into the bedroom so I can watch his agression level lol..... I guess I will just have to be slow and sneaky

I am not being funny but i do not think she knew all the types existed now she has my 30 planted in her room

my gf has been here through just having a 40b to having 700+ gallons in the house and shes been awesome throughout. she isnt into fish but she understands im nuts but has never tried to limit anything and even better doesnt resent me for having a hobby im very passionate about. couldnt be happier here

like me but not as small if i had a house she would MAKE me get a giant tank...as long as i do not EVER slack i can have fish and snakes.

As long as there's no tanks upstairs she doesn't know what goes on with my fish hobby down stairs.
My wife has tried to support my hobby, but like many fish hobbyist, we trade fish too often, at least I did/do.

My wife is a "backseat" fishkeeper. She tells me how to "drive" the tank.

My wife acts as if she does not care but always has her 2 cents to put into things even when she really has nothing to do with my hobby. We have had arguments because she thought I was going overboard with the fact I keep multiple tanks. My upstairs tanks are small ( a 29g and 2.5g) and I do not have much time devoted to them as my 210g. They are easy in comparison but shes just afraid I will go nuts and have BIG tanks in every room.

My wife tolerates my tanks, though she does put limits on them. She also possesses a weapon of mass destruction (shock and awe?): crying. It rarely gets to that point, but if I start talking about another tank and she thinks I'm already spending way too much time on the tanks I have, well, the WMD comes out. After that I've already lost and the new tank idea goes back where it belongs.

She likes my 2 display tanks and tolerates the rest. She even pretends to be interested when I show her exciting critter X or a new bunch of snail eggs or whatever.

pbmax wrote:She also possesses a weapon of mass destruction (shock and awe?): crying. It rarely gets to that point, but if I start talking about another tank and she thinks I'm already spending way too much time on the tanks I have, well, the WMD comes out.

Mine has another weapon: yelling.

I had one (past tense) that used that weapon. She has someone else to yell at now, thank goodness.

mine just give's a look of death she knows when i have an idea she would not leave me unless i took out the bed for a tank or the kitchen but she knows my ADHD is so bad i need water everywhere if not stress sets in and the the monster inside comes out i can go outside and around town but i can not be in a quite place for too long

My fish hobby doesnt bother the gf she usually buys me fish stuff and likes to go fish store hoppping with me lol

my gf has mts too and sometimes buys me new tanks for my birthday. all she asks when i say i want a new tank is "where r u gonna put it? you're out of space." i always find a place though.

well mine is like dmds she is a back seat fish keeper!! but i think thats slowly changin, she just brought home 2 balloon rams that she rescued from petco! so now i have an reason to fill the 46gal!#winning.....lol

Hahahaha... I'm trying REALLY hard not to get MTS... I'm already up to 2, 55gal tanks. One is freshwater fish, and the other is for land hermit crabs. I have a 10 gal spare, and I dare not convert that into something that will house a pet. Hehe