My husband would like to set up a saltwater tank. We will be using a 30 gal tank. We have 2 freshwater, 1 coldwater, and one brackish tank as is, that we've done great with. We've derived info from the net and through my mother. She too had a saltwater tank, with not alot of success. Our tanks are as follows...
10 gallon.... 4 gold fish (2 Calico, 2 Black Moors), 4 black fiddler crabs (Yes, they have a tower to reach the air)
10 gallon... guppies.. two pairs, 3 baby swordtails(the male died and the female dropped before she too died, we had 9 babies, gave 6 away.) 4 tetras, (actually 3, but the glass cat thinks he's a tetra, we had 3 glass cats, two died, this one schooled with the tetras and has lived for 2 years.) 2 redclawed crabs...
10 gallon.... BRACKISH.... 3 mudskippers, two african frogs.
5 gallon.. hospital... Dr. Charlie the clown loach and a pleco ( who was wounded by our red devil)
55 Gallon... two tinfoil barbs, two bloody parrots, 2 kissing gouramis, 2 angels, 2 plecos, (one huge, 6 years old) one red tailed shark, one paradise gourami, one severum, and an unknown fish. (He's a cichlid, he's yellow with a black dot on his head, 3 white dots on his fin, under his tail.) The petstore gave him to us, they didnt know what he was(sad isnt it?) because we gave them our giant red devil. He started beating up my prize bloody parrot, (Gus) and we moved him into a 10 gal alone with a pleco.. he beat him up. So we decided to give him up, (He's now a Show Fish, display only, he's very happy), now we're trading in our 15 gal for a 30 gallon, to house our new saltwater tank, which my mom has said will be expensive and hard to maintain.
My husband, (Jeff) wants real coral, live sand, Clown fish, anemonies(sp?) and the like. He knows he will have to raise the coral and anemonie first, my mom said to keep damsels first, that they help with the salinity and stuff for the tank. (after the coral and stuff is ready.) But we know it will be different from freshwater and brackish. We know we need different things. But he wants to do it right, no matter if it takes years before the fish are introduced. So if you could help, I really need a detailed explanation of what we need, equipment, and so on. Maybe opinions on where to get corals and such. We have a book, Foster and Smith that have this stuff. Anywhere online that we can get it cheaper, also our LPS can order it for us for cheap, we are their biggest customers, (We have 2 dogs, 2 cats, as well as our 5 , soon to be 6 tanks.)
Thanks for your advice.
10 gallon.... 4 gold fish (2 Calico, 2 Black Moors), 4 black fiddler crabs (Yes, they have a tower to reach the air)
10 gallon... guppies.. two pairs, 3 baby swordtails(the male died and the female dropped before she too died, we had 9 babies, gave 6 away.) 4 tetras, (actually 3, but the glass cat thinks he's a tetra, we had 3 glass cats, two died, this one schooled with the tetras and has lived for 2 years.) 2 redclawed crabs...
10 gallon.... BRACKISH.... 3 mudskippers, two african frogs.
5 gallon.. hospital... Dr. Charlie the clown loach and a pleco ( who was wounded by our red devil)
55 Gallon... two tinfoil barbs, two bloody parrots, 2 kissing gouramis, 2 angels, 2 plecos, (one huge, 6 years old) one red tailed shark, one paradise gourami, one severum, and an unknown fish. (He's a cichlid, he's yellow with a black dot on his head, 3 white dots on his fin, under his tail.) The petstore gave him to us, they didnt know what he was(sad isnt it?) because we gave them our giant red devil. He started beating up my prize bloody parrot, (Gus) and we moved him into a 10 gal alone with a pleco.. he beat him up. So we decided to give him up, (He's now a Show Fish, display only, he's very happy), now we're trading in our 15 gal for a 30 gallon, to house our new saltwater tank, which my mom has said will be expensive and hard to maintain.
My husband, (Jeff) wants real coral, live sand, Clown fish, anemonies(sp?) and the like. He knows he will have to raise the coral and anemonie first, my mom said to keep damsels first, that they help with the salinity and stuff for the tank. (after the coral and stuff is ready.) But we know it will be different from freshwater and brackish. We know we need different things. But he wants to do it right, no matter if it takes years before the fish are introduced. So if you could help, I really need a detailed explanation of what we need, equipment, and so on. Maybe opinions on where to get corals and such. We have a book, Foster and Smith that have this stuff. Anywhere online that we can get it cheaper, also our LPS can order it for us for cheap, we are their biggest customers, (We have 2 dogs, 2 cats, as well as our 5 , soon to be 6 tanks.)
Thanks for your advice.
