salt water aquarium

[gdm phil]

about 2 weeks ago I picked up a small 8 gallon all in one salt water fish tank for my 2 year old son Mason. I did my 2 week cycle and put my first "nemo" in with some other crabs and snails to work clean up. its pretty cool so far and my son loves it. I feel I can educate him on the ocean by giving him a ocean. I cant wait to take him diving when hes older and have him see nemo in the wild lol. ill snap some pics when the water clears up. I made a new hobby boo boo. I went to do a water change and added fresh water by accident. all fish are well aside from 1 crab lol

[YUDRAS]

I'm just about a month into a 29 gallon standard tank. My first. So far so good. Gotta couple Chromis and Clowns in there, along with 3 Cardinals. First partial water change coming up this week. Wish me luck.

[gdm phil]

thanx guys, got the water back to salt again last night and is already looking better. cant wait to get my peppermint shrimp and have him give nemo a bath lol

[Floridahogfish]

I have a 250 gallon saltwater aquarium 110 gallon freshwater and a 75 gallon freshwater

[Floridahogfish]

It's been running for 5 years I have a few tangs a pair of Maroon clownfish male and female a queen angel a few damisels and some gobys and crabs as well as snails also a marine beta grouper and starfish, I have a few corals and a anemone I will take some pics and post tommo if I have time

[YUDRAS]

I have about 28 lbs of live Fiji rock on a fine live sand substrate. Along with the fish a have 3 peppermint shrimp and 8 Cortez hermit crabs.

[gdm phil]

so apparently my ammonia was super high. I had to take most of the water out and re do it. I plan on doing a water change daily of half a gallon or so. on the plus side im starting to get some nice growth out of the algae and I found a star fish hitch hiker in my live rock

[gdm phil]

That's the problem with the small aquarium the sudden change of temps, water spike via ammonia, nitrite, nitrate etc. can wipe you aquarium fast. Having a large aquarium these swings or sudden change dont have a high impact as the smaller aquarium because of the water vol lvls

You buy your saltwater at you LFS or are you making it yourself?

I get those 5 gallon jugs ready to pour.

I figure if I do half a gallon a day I should be good in a week or so