# Salt water fish tank **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/salt-water-fish-tank/266758 **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic **Created:** [April 11, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/salt-water-fish-tank/266758 "2013-04-11T18:30:33Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 18
### Author: ![toomanycamaros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@toomanycamaros](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/toomanycamaros) #### Post date: [April 12, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/salt-water-fish-tank/266758/18 "2013-04-12T18:10:09Z")
> [@WTF](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtf/52370/14): > > We have a 60 gallon freshwater, and like what YOTA was saying about small changes affectting smaller tanks more, even with a 60 gallon this is true… > > While the fresh water fish we have are not extremely picky, they still like a certain type of enviroment, and it can be seen over time. Fish become a lot more active and playful it seems when the tank are in the “right” conditions for them… and its amazing how 1 little change can affect the entire tank… > > Like I said were using this is our learning experiance, its been a lot of fun, and a little bit of work, trial and error and reading to finally have a tank thats active, staying clear, clean and healthy looking. > > Compared to our goldfish tank that gets about a quarter of the attention :rofl Goldfish will deff outlive us in case of nuclear disaster… > > Also while Yota did mention paying attention to species… Really pay attention to species. How aggressive the fish are, or what region the fish come from… > > For example we have Convicts (Cichlids) and theres South American cichlids, and african cichilds… While they look similar, and their both cichlids, if you put both african and south american in the tank, they will tear eachother up… > > You dont want passive fish with aggressive fish, though we have tried a few semi-aggresive with our passive fish after doing some reading and so far have not had any issues in ~4 months. Pay attention to how many you have, how big they will get, dont think short term think long term. Some like certain types of plant life etc etc… > > I was amazed at how complicated it can get, but its fun once you get into it. It is tricky but you can actually mix and match fish. I actually have a 7-8" texas red cichlid that I bought when it was only about 1/2". I was able to keep that fish and a fuco cichlid in my 60 gallon that housed my tropical fish.(they were too small for the large tank at the time) Those fish were fine with the tropical semiagressive tank mates even when they grew to a large size. A year later we moved and I gave away a bunch of cichlids, but kept some only to have them fight like crazy and I had to bring all but 6 to Davie Jones to find new homes. Anyway back to topic I would still say try freshwater first. If your still into it after a year sell the setup and go saltwater. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/salt-water-fish-tank/266758)._