What sort of gear do you need for a saltwater aquarium?
Is maintenance a hastle?
Ive got a tank that I got sick of tropical fish and was looking at something different, maybe yabbies, but what you've done looks good.
Keedy you can go real simple or have top of the range gear and have the same results.
Maintaining is a bit harder that a FW tank, but not to bad, I just collect sea water and do a water change once a week, clean skimmer once a week, clean the pumps every 3-4weeks, that sort of thing.
Can be expensive though.
Equipment
Good light - metal halide or something similar
protein skimmer
powerhead/pumps - lots of turbulence - mimicking a reef
heater
containers for sea water
Reverse Osmosis filter for freshwater
If you do decide I would do a few weeks research etc, and make sure you know what you are doing properly. If coral starts dieing etc, it becomes expensive.
Rodrat
Posts: 1672
Date Joined: 13/01/07
Hi Tank is coming along
Hi
Tank is coming along nicely, where do you buy stock from?
Sex is great, but fishing lasts all day!
FISH FOR THE FUTURE
Dean
Posts: 1943
Date Joined: 23/02/07
Thanks, will be good owhen
Thanks, will be good owhen all the algae is gone, it's a shit photo aswell.
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Keedy
Posts: 24
Date Joined: 25/03/07
Setup
What sort of gear do you need for a saltwater aquarium?
Is maintenance a hastle?
Ive got a tank that I got sick of tropical fish and was looking at something different, maybe yabbies, but what you've done looks good.
Dean
Posts: 1943
Date Joined: 23/02/07
Keedy you can go real simple
Keedy you can go real simple or have top of the range gear and have the same results.
Maintaining is a bit harder that a FW tank, but not to bad, I just collect sea water and do a water change once a week, clean skimmer once a week, clean the pumps every 3-4weeks, that sort of thing.
Can be expensive though.
Equipment
Good light - metal halide or something similar
protein skimmer
powerhead/pumps - lots of turbulence - mimicking a reef
heater
containers for sea water
Reverse Osmosis filter for freshwater
If you do decide I would do a few weeks research etc, and make sure you know what you are doing properly. If coral starts dieing etc, it becomes expensive.
Rodrat
Posts: 1672
Date Joined: 13/01/07
stock
Have you been down to rocky reef at rockingham?
(Sex is great, but fishing lasts all day!)
FISH FOR THE FUTURE