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Ive always heard that salt water tanks were a pain in the behind so ive never attempted one.Yea and the fish are crazy high also but beautifull.Ill try one some day when i get a little more house.I was just talking with my wife the other day that i hope we dont lose power this year for a few days with the small fortune i have in fish.Other than a generator what could you do??
Oh yea those salt water Morays are pretty sweet!
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I think fresh is best bang for your buck. Id rather spend my $$ on fish then equipment. For example, in my 125 I have three fish valued at around $1500 and I have only about $600 in the tank. If I took that same $2100 and did a SW 125, after buying all the equipment Id have barely enough left for any fish. Even then my 125 would be pretty much the same as the tank in the dentist office down the street. Since Im doing fresh and spending my money on rare hard to find fish instead of equipment, I can safely say that the group I have together right now the dentist down the street doesnt have, I can safely say that no one in the state of KY has ever had. I'm also fairly certain the co-hab Im attempting has never been done in this country, possibly the world so its kind of nice to know you have something that unique. The fish Im co-habing are VERY aggressive, expensive, rare and full of teeth. I could come home any day to a dead fish but so far so good. I will be gone for four days this weekend and as soon as I unlock my door Sunday night Im running to my tank and hoping for the best!
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Wow,im kicking myself self in the butt for not checking out that site sooner!Tons of info i need and tons i dont but stil find really interesting.Thanks for the heads up.
I know what you mean about worrying about your fish,the most expensive fish i have are the peacocks but evertime i come home i check them and if they dont eat the way i think they should i get worried.lol.
Im taking a 6 day fishing trip in april so ill need to school the wife on the care but i know she still wont do it the way i would.
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Im glad you liked the site. A word of warning, be careful over there or the next thing you know youll be knocking down a wall to put in that 500 gallon tank or dropping $300 on a fish!
They also have a semi active fishing sub-forum which can be pretty comical at times.
Also the Louisville Tropical Fish Fanciers (local fish club) meets the second sunday of every month. The meetings always have a speaker that is very informative as well as a small auction to follower the speaker. Every spring and fall they have a big auction. Google LTFF for their website and yahoo group.
I got to thinking, if you really like your Africans tlak to me next time you think about picking up more. Im good friends with Eddie Martin of Bluegrass Cichlids who offers the highest quality and best selection of African and CA/SA cichlids in town.
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Man if i ever have a house built i will have a 500 in a wall,lol.Yea i bought my last peacock from Eddie,nice guy and great fish.Also got a very nice blue dolphin from him.Ill let you know when i need another-lol-and ive been wanting to check out that fish club.They meet over off of Bardstown rd. right?
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Great post, I have a 55 gallon I built into my wall when I finished my walk-out, that really looks good, I am thinking about doing a small reef, roughed it in with plenty of power 2 circuits and 8 outlets, and and outlet at the ceiling for the metal halide lighting. I had just a regular salt water tanks years ago, and loved it, technology has came so far since then, that I may be leaning on doing another one real soon. Keep the pictures coming, really love looking at other peoples tanks, and fish.
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I just saw this thread and it is awesome. I think once I learned about it, alot of reading on water conditions and the ammonia/nitrate cycle - saltwater was actually easier to maintain than freshwater. I have lost more fish in a marine tank than fresh, but once the water and bio-filters (including your substrate and live rock) stabalize - it pretty much takes care of itself (of course, you need to monitor and make adjustments, and do some partial water changes). The main thing is to spned some time setting up your tank to let the water stabalize. I once set up a reef tank and spent over six months just letting the water stabalize before adding any corals or "real" fish. I did keep a few damsels in there to keep the nitrate cycle going, so the rocks and sand and all that would continue to grow bacteria that would eat the nitrates.Originally Posted by fisheater
Losing power can wipe out a tank. I lost a great deal of valuable fish in my fish only tank. I had a cat, that I guess stepped on the power strip shutting it off while I was out of town for a few days. I guess it overheated. My lights were plugged into an outlet directly with a timer. They kept cycling on and off - however, my filters were not running, and my fans I built on my hood to help cool all the lights were not running either. I lost a puffer, an austrailian harlequin tusk (my favorite), a few tangs, a full clown trigger, an adult queen angle, and a few other small fish - it really added up. I sold my 180 gal. and filter after that. The only thing that lived was my zebra morray - I guess they are tougher.
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I will definutley give the old salt water a try.I love the Morays and lion fish.Heres a pic of one of my recent pick ups.Never seen one and i cant find anything on the internet about them so im kind of excited that i have something that not alot of people have.Its an Albino Kyoga Flameback,
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I also have a female holding right now so im pretty excited about getting some fry.
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John, did you loose power? How are your fish? I lucked out and lost power for a little less then 48hrs and made out with 100% survival!
In May I am giving a lecture on FW stingrays at the local fish club meeting, you should come check it out!
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Yea i had some losses.Tank temps got down to 72 degrees before i load them into a rubbermaid and headed off to the in-laws who had electric.Put a heater and a bubbler in there and crossed my fingers.I have the tank back up and running now and my water params are fine now but i dont know how much beneficial bacteria i lost so i have been adding all kinds of bottled bacteria.So far no deaths since ive had the in there and no ich that i can see.I even woke up to a few fry from the above female this morning.Fish are tough but i wasnt so tough when i thought i was going to lose them all.Even the clown loaches seem un affected.But they are looking kind of rough from all the moving but the salt and melafix should take care of that.
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