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09-07-2004, 06:46 AM
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| | Super Fish
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 4,077
| Go do the reading recommended in the other threads in this forum, particularly anything like 'how I set up my tank'. Asking single questions like this will not prepare you for what you need to successfully keep a marine tank, you need to get a 'big picture'. But as you ask, 8.2, salinity 1.020 - 1.025, 0 ammonia nitrite, nitrate as low as possible. Phosphate nil. |
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09-07-2004, 11:30 PM
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#22 (permalink)
| | Medium Fish
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: SW Wisconsin
Posts: 497
| I almost was foolish and did this...set up a SW tank. There was a 75 gal tank being given away, we were talking where to meet for me to get it, visions of SW danced in my head and the people slipped as they took it out of storage and the whole thing cracked to pieces.
Saved by a slip...
__________________ Mostly guppies...4 tanks that keep changing
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Escape--it is the basket
In which the Heart is caught
When down some awful Battlement
The rest of Life is dropt.
~Emily Dickinson |
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10-24-2004, 06:06 AM
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#23 (permalink)
| | Little Fish
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Townsville - Queensland ...... Australia ---saltwater
Posts: 203
| EASY WAY S/W |
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11-23-2004, 05:46 AM
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#24 (permalink)
| | Little Fish
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Townsville - Queensland ...... Australia ---saltwater
Posts: 203
| Quote: Originally posted by dbacksrat some stores have certain policies with their saltwater fish such as *$&%&@# have no guarantee that sw fish you buy will live, but some places online have a 10 day guarantee for most sw livestock | I have found this is the case with the collecters, a lot of fish that come from indonesia care caught by using poisons/chemicals which will kill the fish in the future ( lol or no future) so i guess you can always ask where they come from first, one of our LFS has some beautiful fish they come from indo and i wont touch them, |
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01-05-2005, 05:54 PM
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#25 (permalink)
| | Little Fish
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Texas
Posts: 233
| Phantomfe3, thanks so much for the information. I would like a SW tank in my bedroom but I had heard it was expensive. I am new to the fish world (less than a year) so I am just working with freshwater. I think I need lots of years behind me before I try SW. Thanks for all the information though.  |
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01-13-2005, 08:11 PM
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#26 (permalink)
| | Super Fish
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Glendale, AZ
Posts: 1,865
| it is possible to do sw as a beginner to fishkeeping in general, but common newbie mistakes are very costly...i believe 99% (ok, maybe not that many) of reef keepers (fish only systems not included because those are forgiving and somewhat simple to maintain) gained valuable experience in fw before doing sw
__________________ -Matt |
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02-21-2005, 10:00 PM
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#27 (permalink)
| | Super Fish
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Glendale, AZ
Posts: 1,865
| a toothbrush--to remove various algae/cyanobacteria
it did wonders for me 
__________________ -Matt |
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02-23-2005, 12:24 AM
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#28 (permalink)
| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 32
| I agree with dbacksrat. I'd owned my FW setup for quite a while before I even considered beginning a marine system. In the end, I'm glad for the experience, and it certainly helped me.
__________________ 75Gal: 2 Bala's, Sabre Tusk Barracuda, Needlenose Gar, Figure Eight Puffer, several lunch guppies.
35Gal: 2 Common Clowns, 2 Blue Damsels, Six Legged Red Star, Cleaner Shrimp, 2 Olive Snails. |
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02-23-2005, 12:57 AM
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#29 (permalink)
| | Medium Fish
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Santa Cruz, California
Posts: 349
| excellent post. a true sticky, i know its been here for a while, just never took the time to read. nice job, thanks.
__________________ 38 G. - FOWLR
2 False Percula Clowns
1 Yellow Tang
1 Royal Gramma
1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
30 Blue Leg Hermits
1 Peppermint shrimp
1 Blue Cheeck Goby 10 G.
Assorted African Cichlid tank 2.5 G.
Male CT Betta
2 ADF's My Tanks ( under construction) |
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02-23-2005, 07:44 PM
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#30 (permalink)
| | Super Fish
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Glendale, AZ
Posts: 1,865
| when feeding frozen food, strain the meat from the juice with a brine shrimp net--this will help reduce algae
__________________ -Matt |
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