Anyone into the hobby of saltwater aquariums?

**GetITCdot** · May 5th, 2009, 03:44 PM

I just started up the hobby got a 55gal with 40 lbs live rock and 30 lbs live sand, ehiem pro canister filter.

2 black/white damsels
1 blue damsel
1 maroon clown

ill post some pics soon.

Anyone else into saltwater? I'd love to check out your tank etc.

**MuzzleFlash** · May 5th, 2009, 04:30 PM

My tank, It's been on sale for a while at craigslist. 100 gallons give or take. It was freshwater though, I used it to house 2 turtles and 60 feeder fish per week.

**GetITCdot** · May 5th, 2009, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by MuzzleFlash

My tank, It's been on sale for a while at craigslist. 100 gallons give or take. It was freshwater though, I used it to house 2 turtles and 60 feeder fish per week.

Nice tank, why are you getting out of the hobby?

**SteveXD** · May 5th, 2009, 04:44 PM

I've been in the hobby for a while. I have a 120 reef tank and I just ordered a custom 240 gallon tank that I waited 5 months for. Like an idiot cracked with a hammer while I was fixing the stand last week

It's a tough and expensive hobby and there is always an issue. A few months back I got a predatory flat worm in my tank and it ate about 95% of my coral.

**GetITCdot** · May 5th, 2009, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by SteveXD

I've been in the hobby for a while. I have a 120 reef tank and I just ordered a custom 240 gallon tank that I waited 5 months for. Like an idiot cracked with a hammer while I was fixing the stand last week

It's a tough and expensive hobby and there is always an issue. A few months back I got a predatory flat worm in my tank and it ate about 95% of my coral.

This is my first saltwater and I can already tell it will take alot more work thin my 150G freshwater.

However the rewards are awesome.

can you guys give me any all around general advice?

**normanvin** · May 5th, 2009, 04:58 PM

My wife was into salt water fish for a while. I really liked the lion fish she had.

On a side note.
I had some good size pirrahna for a while.

**mojo** · May 5th, 2009, 05:05 PM

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**MuzzleFlash** · May 5th, 2009, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by GetITCdot

Nice tank, why are you getting out of the hobby?

I've been out of "the hobby" since about 2003. It started with a pet turtle in a 10 gallon that got too big and needed more room to swim. We eventually gave it back because it was just getting too big for us to properly care for. My mother then used the tank for small salt water fish. I always thought the neatest thing in there was the urchin. I never saw it move, yet every time I looked it was some place else. Kind of like my cat.
I surely don't miss cleaning the tank every week, the smell, lugging buckets back and forth, the constant hum of the air pump and bubbles. Wilkinsburg Aquarium in Pittsburgh had a lot of salt water fish and supplies but I haven't been in there for about 10 years. Plus the owner, assuming it's still Joel, is very pro gun.