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Post by baslp on Sept 4, 2017 12:15:56 GMT
Having a fish tank is a lot of work. I had trobkle just keeping a fish bowl clean!
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Post by littlemama on Sept 4, 2017 12:19:13 GMT
When we had a fish tank, it was kept in ds' bedroom. We may have also kept one in the living room, pre-DS. I have never known anyone to keep a fish tank in the kitchen, on the counter or otherwise.
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Post by Linda on Sept 4, 2017 12:49:15 GMT
we have a 90-gallon tank in the living room -which I really wish DH maintained better
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Post by worrywart on Sept 4, 2017 13:43:03 GMT
I did used to have one on the kitchen counter/bench. It was in an unused corner and was a small one gallon with a beta. I can't stand to see them in the little cups and at least he had a nice place to hang out with some bubbles. I got tired of cleaning it so when he died, I took it down.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 4, 2017 14:20:26 GMT
We used to have a fish tank, but not on the kitchen counter. Yuck! DH likes fish. Me, not so much. He had a huge 50 gallon long tank at one point that was so big he had our cabinetmaker neighbor build a special cabinet for it. It was in our livingroom for years. Let's just say that DH wasn't very diligent about keeping the tank clean and it was NASTY. It was dusty, it had crusted up fish food flakes and water sediment around the top and algae growing on the glass inside. Eww. When the last fish finally died (and it was huge!) that tank got emptied out once and for all and moved to the basement. We left the whole setup at our old house when we moved because my brother said he wanted it. I can't imagine having anything that gross on our kitchen counter. It gets cluttered up enough just with junk mail and other random stuff that gets temporarily dumped there. And as others have mentioned, I need the few electrical outlets in that area that are available free for my mixer, toaster and other small cooking appliances.
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Post by femalebusiness on Sept 4, 2017 15:01:32 GMT
I used to have a fish tank about thirty years ago. It is now in the attic and every once in a while I think about setting it up again as I really enjoyed it at the time. Back then, the 70s, I had chocolate brown long shag carpet. I was really into houseplants and my living room looked like a tropical jungle. I had my tank set up and I also had a cockatiel in a natural looking cage that was right next to the fish tank and all of that was surrounded by trees and tropical plants. The bird threw seed all over and it landed in the shag carpet. The fish tank developed a tiny leak, just enough to wet the carpet without being noticed. One day I walked into the living room and had three inch high grass sprouting all over the carpet. That's when I built an outdoor aviary and shut down the fish tank. So funny. How did you deal with the grass and the carpet? I had to drain the tank and my friend took the fish. I moved the bird cage and all of the plants then let it all dry out. I then spent several days, on the floor with the vacuum nozzle vacuuming that area inch by inch. A couple of years after that I spilled a half gallon of white paint on my chocolate brown shag carpet. That was another entire day that I spent with a wet/dry vac sucking up paint, pouring water, sucking up paint, pouring water. I got every bit of the paint out of the carpet. It was in the exact same place as the grass had been.
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milocat
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Post by milocat on Sept 4, 2017 15:16:22 GMT
I voted no I don't have a fish tank. But even if I did it wouldn't be on my kitchen counter! Maybe if it was one of those desk or china cabinet seperate areas that matched the cupboards but not on the everday work surface.
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garcia5050
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Post by garcia5050 on Sept 4, 2017 15:27:19 GMT
We have a larger tank (maybe 60 gallons?) on its own stand in the dining room. It's currently holding one single goldfish (yes, won at a recent fair). We've NEVER put a tank on the kitchen counter.
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Post by 950nancy on Sept 4, 2017 15:42:33 GMT
Am I the only one wondering what a bench in the kitchen is called if the kitchen bench is the counter? I love to hear words that other people use.
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Post by kels99 on Sept 4, 2017 15:47:37 GMT
I voted yes, but it's not really a "tank", just a 1 gallon bowl with a guppy that a friend gave DD for graduation in June. It's tropical, but we've already spent $30 on that stupid "free" fish and are not going to get it a heater and everything. He seems to be perfectly happy and healthy as is. We keep him on the kitchen counter because it's the warmest place in the house.
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charlatan
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Post by charlatan on Sept 4, 2017 15:57:07 GMT
I've had tanks in various places over the years but never in the kitchen. I've never had enough space to be willing to give some up to a tank.
I kept a tank in my bedroom as a teenager and I really enjoyed the sounds. I do remember replacing the cheap filter pump I first got with one that was quieter, so maybe your daughter could look into something similar. Also the water sounds get louder when the water level is low.
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Post by birukitty on Sept 4, 2017 19:30:17 GMT
I had a 10 gallon tank down in my scraproom for a few years. It's in the finished basement of our house. Half of the room is my scraproom and half is our den. It was a brackish water tank with a spotted puffer fish in it. These are a very small variety of what you see when you go diving. She was only an inch long. That was the coolest fish. She'd follow my finger up and down the tank and when it came time to clean the tank I'd put the net beside the tank and she'd literally roll into it. (Yeah, I know you're supposed to keep the fish in the tank when you clean it but since she was the only one it made it easier to take her out for a bit). She lived a very long time. We were very sad when she finally passed away. DS was a kid at the time and named her Jigglypuff.
That tank is in the garage now and once in awhile I do think of dragging it out and setting the whole thing up again but they are work.
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