cold saltwater?

bethkira2000

bethkira2000

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I wanted to know if there is anyway to make a cold saltwater tank? like around 40-50, I know that you need a chiller, but I wanted to showcase fish off the atlantic coast, but the fish here are used to very cold water. Does anyone have any thoughts?
 
You can probably set it up like a normal sw tank, just with a chiller to keep the temp right. I would imagine you'd have to do fish-only, I'm not sure liverock would survive at temps that low.
 
thank you for all the info sploke, I am not sure about live rock either. I know that there are live rocks in all the tidepools, but I doubt that it is a hot seller at LFS.
 
Yes, I know there are some people that go out and collect specimens from tidepools, etc. You'd have to check local regulations to make sure it was legal. Some of the more common local species such as blue and green crabs, mummichogs, silversides, and urchins would make an interesting native tank though.
 
Thank you, I an hoping also to get some of the lesser know fish. And maybe some ghost shrimp. We also have some really pretty red anemones too. And moon snails which I love.
 
Do you dive? My 6th grade science teacher had a coldwater native marine tank, he would go out diving in Long Island Sound (I live in CT) and get small baitfish, crabs, snails, hermits, all sorts of cool stuff.
 
There are probably more c.w. inverts that w.w. inverts. It's just that they are much harder to find for most of us.
 
Thanx everyone all the links have helped me. As far as diving, only very rarely, I live in Maine so I haven't the skin, or the nerve to dive. I do love tidepools, and spend huge amounts of time looking in them. I found a tidepool once with three eels in it. That is when I was bit by the bug. And I have been researching cold water tanks ever since.
 
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