Fresh or Salt?
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ChangSupra88;2843092; said:
its really not... you can have more of a balance is saltwater than fresh which equals less maintenance... people will never get that until they have a balanced salt tank
You CAN in theory have a single 3 inch specimen in a 29 gallon tank in freshwater, and you have a very balanced aquarium, never having to do water changes. But no one does it...
ALSO freshwater can be ridiculously expensive too. Just look at high tech planted tanks! A CO2 Diffuser is like 200 bucks at least, plus extra lighting and fertilizers, not to mention buying all those different kinds of plants. AND People often pick discus and cardinal tetras. Discus are at least $50, sometimes $99 even. Cardinal tetra are often wild caught and 50 $2 fish adds up...
You can heavy stock a saltwater tank if you have just fishes and macro algae. Same goes for freshwater. They aren't that much different.
PS: I have seen tobys in the wild... at about the size of the OP's. Do they ever get big?
ALSO freshwater can be ridiculously expensive too. Just look at high tech planted tanks! A CO2 Diffuser is like 200 bucks at least, plus extra lighting and fertilizers, not to mention buying all those different kinds of plants. AND People often pick discus and cardinal tetras. Discus are at least $50, sometimes $99 even. Cardinal tetra are often wild caught and 50 $2 fish adds up...
You can heavy stock a saltwater tank if you have just fishes and macro algae. Same goes for freshwater. They aren't that much different.
PS: I have seen tobys in the wild... at about the size of the OP's. Do they ever get big?
I like both equally, but what i hate about salt is that much of it is wild caught. All it takes is some time snorkeling/diving and seeing the animals you recognize from fish shops. I would rather swim with a school of tangs vs. see them in a tank!
I keep fresh, I've been doing it for forty years, and there are still plenty of freshwater fish I haven't kept. I've been exposed to salt, but brackish is the only thing that has tempted me so far.
When I was crabbing and lobstering in the Keys, I helped stock my boss's younger brother's tank. If something we thought he'd like came up in a trap, we'd throw it in the live well and give it to him when we got in. He had a gorgeous 500 gallon set up.
When I was crabbing and lobstering in the Keys, I helped stock my boss's younger brother's tank. If something we thought he'd like came up in a trap, we'd throw it in the live well and give it to him when we got in. He had a gorgeous 500 gallon set up.
seds;2845958; said:
you could never have a freshwater tank without a filter... salt you can. ive seen coral setups with just lights and a few pumps to push water over the rock for filtration... no filter whatsoever... not even a prefilter on the rocks... because there is no freshwater equivelant of live rock there will never be the possibility of a FW tank with no filters...
EDIT: tobys almost never get over 6 inches unless there is one that i dont know about... what kind was it? ive seen 15" powder tangs in the wild... i saw what looked like an archer fish too but wasnt cuz it was in the carribean and archers come from asia dont they?
