Indoors pond with salt water?
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sj.;1133962; said:Too right. If I'd worked out what salt alone would cost me I'd have gone freshwater.
If you live in cornwall, why are you BUYING seawater???? Get yourself some gerry cans and a trailer
Your surrounded by lovely clean seawater.... In fact you said your doing your own collecting! They were living quite happily in the water till you fished 'em out! Some LSF's could sell sand to the Arabs!!!! @Prarie: if we knew what we were getting into... we'd still be little swimming around in the primordial ooze.. ;]
At any rate.. the big thing that nobody has mentioned yet is that a pond (salt or fresh) is a great opportunity for plants. Since it will be so easy to get nice fresh sunlight, and there won't be lights hanging in the way, a pond would be perfect for sea grasses or mangroves. Just make sure you load the thing us with green growing things, and your nitrate/phosphate issue would be nill. As a result water changes would be kept to a minimum. You would just add fresh water to compensate for evaporation, and I imagine that the growing things wouldn't sap out the salt that quickly. But heh.. I'm a freshwater plant guy who is just a newb with planted saltwater, so take my ramblings with a grain of salt.
At any rate.. the big thing that nobody has mentioned yet is that a pond (salt or fresh) is a great opportunity for plants. Since it will be so easy to get nice fresh sunlight, and there won't be lights hanging in the way, a pond would be perfect for sea grasses or mangroves. Just make sure you load the thing us with green growing things, and your nitrate/phosphate issue would be nill. As a result water changes would be kept to a minimum. You would just add fresh water to compensate for evaporation, and I imagine that the growing things wouldn't sap out the salt that quickly. But heh.. I'm a freshwater plant guy who is just a newb with planted saltwater, so take my ramblings with a grain of salt.
zev;380979; said:Honestly I love saltwater, dragon wasses and lion fish but I think if that is it you will be very dissapointed building a pond for these fish. The dragon wrasse shows great behavior flipping rocks and digging in the sand, and the incredible finage of the lionfish are both best seen form the side. I feel that most salwater fish are best seen from the side. A pond would be great for sharks, or truely odd fish like a bunch of cuttlefish. I would be upset if I could only see my saltwater fish from above. My 2 cents is to set up a 90 gallon glass for the wrasse and lionfish, and build a salt pond for sharks or rays
have to agree with you on the needing to stock with something other than a dragon wrasse and a lion fish, but i completely disagree with you on the point about salt fish other than sharks and rays needing to be viewed from the side. i have my preds in a 300 gallon rubbermaid stock tank growing out. i have still not decided if i will build them an xl pond or tank as i love the look from above and my stock includes morays, a trigger, a tang, and random other aggro/semi aggro marine fish.
gandhii;4230650; said:
this is why i am possibly leaning towards doing a salt pond rather than a tank for my next build. you have more than just the water to work with in a pond you have all the space above it too.
