Why choose freshwater?

[brcacti]

Freshwater is easier and cheaper for the short answer.

 

[ziggy2]

I have to disagree with most. I have mostly FW. I keep Discus and Afrcans. I don't see where it is cheeper. I work my butt off keeping these tanks up. My Discus tank has 240 dollars worth of plants, plus about 300 worth of Discus and some prize angles. I keep what I love. Africans and Discus are it for me. I have a salt tank too. It gets the same attention of the rest. I just love all my fish. It's what you want to make of it. Good luck with what ever you choose.

 

[Mystix212]

un= not, less= not... so it means limited lol

Kids learn some unfancyless words at school these days

Awww shucks. Although it may be wrong when written in this form of literature, I just said 'unlimitless' because the word, when read in a book etc (In my mind anyway), is like the possibilities are endless.

 

[dthomasi]

Awww shucks. Although it may be wrong when written in this form of literature, I just said 'unlimitless' because the word, when read in a book etc (In my mind anyway), is like the possibilities are endless.

You're thinking limitless.

 

[cichlaguapote]

Personally I prefer the vibrance and complexity of the salt water tanks. But I understand the positions of many of you out there.

Alot of us don't like complexity. lol That's why you will see some tanks bare bottoms, no plants even fake.

I like saltwater, and I've seen some nice FOWLR tanks, but as for reefs it just doesn't fullfill my "big fish" bug as many of the big saltwater fish aren't reef compatible anyways. With saltwater you start running into systems needed to make a good current, RO/DI units for water changes, and a host of other things to make fishkeeping more complex.

 

[winstonk]

Awww shucks. Although it may be wrong when written in this form of literature, I just said 'unlimitless' because the word, when read in a book etc (In my mind anyway), is like the possibilities are endless.

and thusly you created some cross between unlimited and limitless. It's cool, we all make mistakes.

 

[AquataHolic420]

Because FRESHWATER rules! I love the fish!

 

[gasser]

Well, your question really asked about monster tanks and I would have considered my old setup a monster reef. It was 600 gallons. I have seen bigger ( 4000 gallons) and most have problems mostly related to dealing with salt, humidity and equipment failures secondary to the first two things.
For instance, my tank had a total water volume of 800 gallons including a 300 gallon refugium. It was beautiful for right at 3 years. SPS corals growing like weeds. Tons of complexity to the tank. Lots of dosers for Calcium. The calcium would freeze up the pumps and I had to rotate them. Very high electric bill for my 5 large 1 amp pumps and 4000 watts of Metal halide lights and 220 watts of VHO actinic. I could go on.

I had one failure of an airconditionar in my fish room and lost everything in one day. Salt would get into everything and totally caked up my A/C, dehumidifier and any other electronic device I had. It was a mess. My prize was a bright red table top SPS coral 12 inches across I grew from a piece smaller than your pinki finger.

I now run my 600 gallon tank as a fresh oscar tank with a few friends. Much more fun, less time consuming and my kids love feeding the fish. I don't miss my reef. It, in the end was a pain in the @$$

I just installed my drip system and my plan to remove myself from the equation is almost complete...

 

[fishdance]

I think the best answer to your wide open question is that people should keep both at sometime in their life, just as they should keep large tanks and small tanks and display tanks and breedng tanks and planted tanks and bare bottom tanks. Why limit yourself?

 

[basslover34]

Ummm.....HELLO!!!! RTC's don't live in Saltwater! LOL

I have to agree with others and say that I would have to have a Shark if I had SW but Cost would quickly get out of hand along with the space requirements as I wouldn't want to give up my Freshwater fish