Bro salt is about 100000 times more complicated than fresh. Tons of chemicals to monitor, bacterially live rock and sand to keep nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia down, gotta change 15-50% of the water weekly or deal with sumps full of live rock, and protein skimmers, iodine dosing, etc. You really need RO purified water for big tanks, etc etc etc. And that’s not even getting into symbiosis between fish, crabs, corals, etc. I didn’t even get into lighting…
Freshwater is boring. Salt is actually a really neat hobby. Challenging, complicated, rewarding results.
My 55 gallon freshwater tank. I’ve been neglecting it since I started my salt tank about 5 months ago. The amazon swords (live plants) died because I haven’t been feeding the fish enough or even had enough fish to support them.
And my 20 gallon nano-reef salt tank. The corals are closed up because the light is off. Right now there are two colonies of polyp coral, a clown fish, a goby, a few hermit crabs, an emerald crab, a few starfish showed up so there must have been one in the live rock that is multiplying, 2 turbo snails that have started reproducing so there are babies everywhere, I’ve seen bristleworms come out from under the rock, there are feather duster worms growing on one of the rocks, and who knows what else under the surface…
honestly bro i got a fish tank for valentines day 5 years ago from my girlfriend. I filled it up, waited a day and put an oscar in. that oscar lived for 3 years. I believe you can put fish in right away i feel the problem is people overpopulating tanks but it is just a thought.
thanks for all the info guys, you too fry, my buddy has nothing but tropical fish, and even after i add the water to the tank i will not immediately add fish, i will run the filter and accessories for a few days, test the water myself, get a 2nd test from petsmart and post results here before i purcahse fish so i know they wont die =)
Quarantine tank then transer. That’s the simple answer but, I know about it. The mollies and the moore were the wifes idea. She has no clue WTF she is talking about but insisted and it was the only way to keep her interested as well.
I know it’s a lot harder. However, after you’ve done your homework enough to know exactly what’s going on and how to keep it all flowing smooth it’s not THAT hard. Well, to me at least. I could see it being complicated for some people but I have no experience to base this on. Some day I’ll do a salt setup.
well i have fish in the tank, 2 snails (NON REPRODUCING ONES!), and 4 glowstar fish, theyre fucking sweet theyre really bright red and yellow, 2 of each
by next week sun b4 school i wanna add 2 neon tetras to finish the tank off, that would be a total of 6 fish and 2 snails, any opposition?
Go fuck yourself you piece of shit… The tanks are in the fucking basement. Did I ask for your opinion? No I didn’t… So why don’t you just keep it to yourself and stop whoring up the thread.
Fuck you Newman, this is my house too. Thats my basement, with our pond’s fish. Its there for the winter, in the summer we have this thing called a yard which we enjoy, there’s a nice pond with gold fish too, but you don’t know what a normal life is, so Fuck You.
You’re parents must have been drunk pricks because they definitely didn’t care about you enough.
You derail more threads than actual trains derail in the US each year.
God I hate you so fucking much, every lotus I ever see from this day forward I am going to dig my key so far into it won’t even be funny, I will only laugh inside, I don’t even care if its yours.
I agree that it can sometime be entertaining… But that was 100% uncalled for.
It’s pretty sad that Newman has such low self esteem that he feels the need to rag on other people over the internet just to make himself feel better about his shitty life.
Your mommy and daddy didn’t love you very much did they Newman?
Trashhouse? … So sorry that my basement is a little cluttered, if you don’t like the way my basement looks then why don’t you come clean it for me or shut your fucking mouth.
Maybe you should ask your parents for more hugs then because it seems like they didn’t give you enough attention when you were little. I’m sure that they would be so proud of you being a ‘successful’ arrogant asshole, that has nothing better to do with his time then sit on a computer an talk shit about other people, because you’re so much fucking better.
You might have a successful career but you are a total fucking social failure… Maybe that’s the reason why you feel the need to try to act the way you do on the internet, your way of begging for attention from other people.
Well I made that post and this one while on a date with a fairly attractive broad, so I don’t think I’m really a social failure. She’s just off in the shitter or something.
