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My advice:
Get a freshwater aquarium.
I just got my first sal er tank off craigslist. Its complete, from what i have been told by my friends its got alot of money in it. Live corals, metal hallide lights, anenomies, live sand, the whole tank was full of live rock, and some mushroom pollups. Alot more came with, but i was just wonderin' if any of you are in the hobby and had some advice. I am def experienced in freshwater but only have 2 friends to talk with about sal er. Anyway , any tips would be appreciated.
Go Spurs !
My advice:
Get a freshwater aquarium.
Oh...and say anemone 5 times fast.
i already have 5 freshwaters that im sellin. 3- 55gallon 1- 33gallon 1- 10gallon !!!
its time to move on to bigger and more Spur-like stuff my friend
BTW, they are all complete w/ stand and all.....all bad-ass tanks if you know someone interested.
Are you here in San Antonio? We've been thinking about it for quite some time now.
And I agree, stick with freshwater - the salt are just too much of a pain
It's a coincidence that someone would start an aquarium thread today, because I was going to do the same. Not to hijack your thread or anything........but I have a 30 gal. freshwater tank that I am a little bored of (my interest comes in cycles). Just so happens my bio-wheel motor died yesterday and instead of buying a new one, I think I'd rather just tear it down for a while. Anyone have any ideas what to do with the fish? NO, I will not flush them.!!
I suggest a little cajun e seasoning...
Details of fish? Kind/size?
We may have some room ...
Yes very little! These mother-uckers are really small!
I need homes for 2 black skirted tetras, 2 serpae tetras, 1 glass catfish, and 1 red tipped shark. If you are interested PM me and we'll work something out!Details of fish? Kind/size?
We may have some room ...
don't let the fish fart in the water
Instant jaccuzi.
Lion King comes to mind
This is an emperor snapper. Do not make the same very expensive mistake I made years ago. I saw one of these at a pet store for $39.99 (mid 90's $39.99, mind you) and thought it was the coolest looking fish I had ever seen. It was about an inch long at the time. I thought "$40 for a fish that kick ass? What a bargain! That is a bargain for me! I think I will buy it!" For several months, it was the star of my tank. So much so, that it decided to eat the compe ion, which included a $20 Royal Gramma, a $30 Neon Goby, several $5 damsels, and everything else in the tank it could stuff down its' now-sizeable gullet. When it (quickly, I might add) got big enough to eat the $100 Queen Angelfish, I decided to get out of the snapper feeding business and donated it back to the pet store.
I'm seriously considering going back to sal er because I got bored with my old hobby of breeding and raising freshwater angelfish.
One piece of advice I would give is spend some bucks and get yourself a top of the line protein skimmer. And check it often, as in daily. Maybe even twice daily. Don't skimp on the skimmer.
Oh and back when Sean Elliott owned Full Court Pets, the guy he hired to run the joint told me that the cool hermit crab I bought there would be an ideal tank mate for the seahorse I had in a 10 gallon tank. Which it was, for as much time as it took him to grab the aforementioned seahorse and eat it like an ear of corn.
I think the lesson I'm trying to impart here is if you aren't prepared to buy very expensive feeder fish, you might want to try another hobby.
When I lived in L.A. I had five tanks over 80 gallons, two of them were salt water, two were fresh, and one was brackish. I am no expert, but I might be able to answer some basics. My biggest tank was 160 gallons, I think.
My first advice is to get puffer fish!
180 gallons actually (I just looked up to see the sizes).
I had 180 gallon salt, 180 gallon tall with Oscars, 160 gallon fresh with awesome fish, 120 gallon salt, and a 80 gallon brackish tank.
I was sad that I couldn't transport all the fish to San Antonio and I sold them for very very cheap.
what's brackish? I've never heard of that.
I love my aquarium ... I need to do an inventory to make sure we don't have too many inches of fish before we take on anymore, though.
My favorites are our pair of albino zebra cichlids (huh?
And the blue gourami
We have one last goldfish won by my daughter at Halloween carnival 2 years ago that's the bas stepchild of the tank. All of the other fish pick on him and he's missing half of his scales, but he refuses to die.
Kind of half-salt, half-fresh.
Like where a river meets the ocean.
I just came in here to ask if you still had that goldfish! My sister and I each had one that lived for over 5 years!I love my aquarium ... I need to do an inventory to make sure we don't have too many inches of fish before we take on anymore, though.
My favorites are our pair of albino zebra cichlids (huh?
And the blue gourami
We have one last goldfish won by my daughter at Halloween carnival 2 years ago that's the bas stepchild of the tank. All of the other fish pick on him and he's missing half of his scales, but he refuses to die.
gracias. You learn something new every day!
Don't add puffers to a sal er tank with coral.
As mentioned, don't skimp on the skimmer. And sal er aquariums are actually relatively easy to keep. And a word of advice...get an RO or an RO/DI water filter system. It will keep phosphates out of the tank, which should greatly reduce algae blooms.
*Yes, I have a sal er tank. The following link is a great site for the sal er tank keeper person. Very friendly and knowledgeable people who are willing to help...as well as a message board similar to here.
http://www.3reef.com
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