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A Military Term Called "mission creep"... Except with Fish Tanks
Ah, so funny story, last week I had some money and decided I wanted a fish tank... Plus Petco was having their "dollar per gallon" sale, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I bought a 20L, since I wanted something with more swimming room lengthwise than a 20T, but I didn't want a huge tank.
A few days later I got a used TV stand that I think will hold this 20 gallon tank I have in my possession... But the more I look at it, the more I think "boy... That's sorta short, it's not tall enough for a real difference between the bottom dwellers and mid-top water fish..." So tonight I decided to go down to my local Petco (the only fish store in Butte, Montana besides Walmart) and take a peek at other tank sizes. The 29, it wasn't THAT much bigger, but it was TALLER was the key.
So now, I sit in my car, broke, thinking about how my stand probably won't hold my new, bigger tank, how I might build my new stand that I'm gonna need (cheaper to build than buy), and what stocking possibilities may have opened up to me now... While at the same time I'm ticked at myself because I bought the bigger tank.
I've gone from planning a 10G with a Betta, some neons, shrimp with a few fake plants, to a 20L low tech planted community, to a 29G low tech community, but maybe with bigger schools/shoals... All in a 4 room little apartment, soon to be in an even littler studio apartment... I hate my self.
Ah, so funny story, last week I had some money and decided I wanted a fish tank... Plus Petco was having their "dollar per gallon" sale, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. I bought a 20L, since I wanted something with more swimming room lengthwise than a 20T, but I didn't want a huge tank.
A few days later I got a used TV stand that I think will hold this 20 gallon tank I have in my possession... But the more I look at it, the more I think "boy... That's sorta short, it's not tall enough for a real difference between the bottom dwellers and mid-top water fish..." So tonight I decided to go down to my local Petco (the only fish store in Butte, Montana besides Walmart) and take a peek at other tank sizes. The 29, it wasn't THAT much bigger, but it was TALLER was the key.
So now, I sit in my car, broke, thinking about how my stand probably won't hold my new, bigger tank, how I might build my new stand that I'm gonna need (cheaper to build than buy), and what stocking possibilities may have opened up to me now... While at the same time I'm ticked at myself because I bought the bigger tank.
I've gone from planning a 10G with a Betta, some neons, shrimp with a few fake plants, to a 20L low tech planted community, to a 29G low tech community, but maybe with bigger schools/shoals... All in a 4 room little apartment, soon to be in an even littler studio apartment... I hate my self.
