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We also keep a varying number of tropical fish and have for close to ten years. Typically several small schools of tetras. We generally have one tank set up - a 30 gallon hexagonal - in the living room with several small to medium schools of tetras. At the moment, we have a ten-member mixed school of Glow-Light and Head-and-Tail Light tetras. The introduction of a (particularly aggressive, as it turns out) male Guppy with a pair of females a couple of months before we moved resulted in the loss of more than two dozen carefully cultivated Neons in under a day in a half. The whole school was gone almost before I realized it. Obviously, this was a bad idea as he saw them as competition. I probably should have known better, but we'd had Guppies in with Neons before with no adverse effects so I didn't think anything of it.
We have two other tanks in storage in the garage - 15 and 20 gallon rectangulars. The 20 has been promised to Erik with the murderous Guppy and his harem once his room is organized. I wonder how many offspring will survive their first few seconds of life. I might set the 15 up in the basement office when everything down there is squared away.