saltwater aquariums

[Euphoric]

O.K. i have a freshwater aquarium. A goldfish, a betta and some neon tetras. I decided I wanted to make it a salt water aquarium so I could have some coral and invertebraes too. After putting three cups of salt in the tank though, everything died. What am I doing wrong??
My friend told me I didnt put enough salt in there for them to breathe. I'm putting more fish in there today though. Does any one have a good site to buy live fish?

[johnny cottonmouth]

euphoric you cant just put salt in your freshwater tank to turn it into a saltwater tank. you have to have totally different water like um i dont know SALTWATER. and yeah of course your fish died because of the salt you added those are fresh water fish. freshwater fish cant have salt in the water. unless there brackish water fish but those are a different story.

[Euphoric]

Look dude, a fish is a fish. Mine keep floating to the top of the tank though I think it is because the salt make them too boyant.
Do you know of some heavier food I can feed them?

[Euphoric]

hehe ok this was a joke. I was trying to horrify Fengzi. I do have a freshwater aquarium but I'm not that stupid to dump salt in it and add coral hahah good times.
all muh fishies are in good health they get plenty of THC i mean TLC i spend lotsa time with them they have plenty of room to swim about with live plants and such

[Fengzi]

The Horror

[Euphoric]

The Horror

Mission: Accomplished.

[Smokey McPot]

Dude i love my tank. I advise everyone to get one ha ha. I have 2 wild saddle back clowns, 1 blue damsel, 1 yellow tang, 1 bicolor dottyback, 1 cleaner shrimp, and 1 threadfin butterfly. I even added 2 pieces of coral: green star polyp and a yellow gorgonian (AKA sea fan). Im going to try and post picks. I just made moon lights out of LED christmas lights.

ANyone else have a tank?

[Smokey McPot]

Here's a few pics of my tank taken over a several year period.

I had the tank pretty well automated so a lot of the daily tasks like water replacement were taken care of. I probably put 30 or so minutes a day doing things like feeding, cleaning off the front glass, random water quality tests, etc. I'd have to give the skimmer a cleaning every 4-5 days. Every two weeks I'd do a 20% water change which would take an hour or two.

I figured out that all together I was spending about 30hrs a month on the tank. Not an overwhelming amount of time for sure. At least not until my daughter was born. Once she came finding a spare hour to deal witht he tank, not to mention 30, was tough. Even so I probably would have kept it if not for the fact that we moved to a new house and moving one of these things is a seriously fucked thing t have to do.

If you want to get back into the hobby but dont want to spend as much time or money, just get fish only with live rock. You dont need strong lighting. Also there are some cool lookin corals that are cheap and dont need strong lighting. Thats what i have and i spend about 10 minutes a day on it and maybe like once or twice a week i spend an entire hour out of a day on it. It no big deal to me. I think its pretty cool. You basically have a small ocean in your house. I love the ocean so it works for me.