Freshwater with a Saltwater look

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Jack Dempsey
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Because I'm too poor I have never gotten into saltwater tanks, but they are to pretty, one of my tanks is a 29 gallon freshwater tank, it has white sand at the bottom and I was thinking it would be cool to give it a "salt water" look, put a few more colorful fish in there, maybe some fake coral or something. Doesn't anybody have any tips or ideas as to what I could do to make this tank look more exotic or saltwaterish? The only thing in thre right now is a small dragon goby and a blue groumai.

I was thinking perhaps fake coral, bright colored plants, and a few colorful odd looking fishies (which i have no decided on)

tips?!? ideas?!?
 
You should do a sa theme w smaller schooling fish. Im not a fan of the fake saltwater such as lace rock in an African Cichlid setup. Looks cheesy to me! But thats only. Do some research on sa fish with plants and a piece of driftwood
 
i actually thought about that but its only 29 gallons so there isn't enough room for me to really enjoy schooling fishies, im going salt water look
 
African Cichlids with some lace rock and no plants will give you a saltwater look. Most non-fishkeepers think my tank is salt when they first see it.

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IMHO other then the cost of the fish in a 29 your start up cost for salt would be almost nothing. Buy base rock and cycle it you could get enough base rock for well under 50.00 bucks, and a cheapo protein skimmer, you could even go without a protin skimmer if you wanted.

If you really wanted salt on the cheap you can setup a FO with just live rock and a power head.
 
I agree with nfored. If you don't go with live corals, a salt water fish only tank in not much more than freshwater. However, Juice has one of the best looking african tanks I've seen. You could do a bunch of small sized africans, but you would have to bring them back to the LFS every 6 mos or get a bigger tank for them.
 
nfored;5119995; said:
IMHO other then the cost of the fish in a 29 your start up cost for salt would be almost nothing. Buy base rock and cycle it you could get enough base rock for well under 50.00 bucks, and a cheapo protein skimmer, you could even go without a protin skimmer if you wanted.

If you really wanted salt on the cheap you can setup a FO with just live rock and a power head.
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also agree with nford 29 gallons is almost nothing to set up for salt water
 
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