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quote:Originally posted by Tubby Rower
HAs anyone ever kept a salt water tank?
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I'd really love too!
The colours in a saltwater tank are amazing!
But there are quite few drawbacks to this.
1. Money. A saltwater tank is easily twice as expensive to purchase, stock and maintain as a freshwater tank.
2. Set-up time. Before you can ever introduce your first fish, you need to set up the tank with corals, "living stone", filtration, lighting, etc., and then you have to wait 3-5 months before adding a fish, so you can attain a biochemical equilibrium. Now, I've got a huge load of patience, but that is pushing it.
3. Size. Small tanks are harder to maintain than big tanks and this is even more the case with a saltwater tank as opposed to a freshwater tank.
4. (this one's just my personal preference). Breeding. Breeding saltwater fish in a tank is extremely difficult. One of my favourite things about keeping fish is eeing the little ones grow up, and in a saltwater tank that would be almost impossible.
But for viewing purposes, a salwater tank is without peer, IMHO.