aquariums

[PeterJ]

A lot of the local clubs trade so you can get good deals there too. At the moment I mostly keep fighters, rainbows, endlers and axolotls.

[kevinchen19870316]

i just had a look around on ebay. it seems i can get an ok one for less than 150 bucks in auctions. but i donno how much it costs to keep it running. i had one in china and it's not costing much at all but donno about here. can anyone get a list of things i'll need to do on a weekly basis, especially for a SW one. how do i get SW?

i'd love to have some fish that i usually fish for in the tank. ha ha

[Feral]

Go to your local recycle land for bare tanks, generally heaps of them, I got my 60cm x 30cm one for $10, got a 90 x 90 breeder tank for $10 I use when I have a lot of shrimp stored.

[Shrimpo]

Salt water would be hard unless u went down to a creek/river and got 2 buckets of water every few days.

[kriso]

you can mix your own

[Dazzamcgee]

For those thinking of setting up a marine aquarium my advice would be to use ocean water for the bulk of the fill and to use the salt mix to make up the rest or for top ups.

Reason being is the ocean water helps to kick start the cycle and once the tank water becomes stable U will be surprise at all the free goodies that will start to grow that otherwise would have cost u hundreds of dollars from the store..ie: soft/hard corals.

Best part is that it is FREE only cost is the fuel to transport it but hey most of us head to the water for a fish at some stage so its quiet ezy to grab a few drums of saltwater.

Also U will find most marine aquarium shops do the same thing as to use the mix up stuff would cost them hundreds of dollars to fill there tanks.

[fishyman]

how so kriso?

we have a freshwater tank atm, which we are in the middle of buying a few bass for and possibly a toga.

but we are looking into a second tank and i wouldnt mind makign it SW and have some bream and maybe s tiny estuary cod or something

[fishyman]

Thanks Dazzamcgee

[kriso]

fishyman wrote:

how so kriso?

we have a freshwater tank atm, which we are in the middle of buying a few bass for and possibly a toga.

but we are looking into a second tank and i wouldnt mind makign it SW and have some bream and maybe s tiny estuary cod or something

you buy salt from the marine aquarium joints.

[kriso]

Dazzamcgee wrote:

For those thinking of setting up a marine aquarium my advice would be to use ocean water for the bulk of the fill and to use the salt mix to make up the rest or for top ups.

Reason being is the ocean water helps to kick start the cycle and once the tank water becomes stable U will be surprise at all the free goodies that will start to grow that otherwise would have cost u hundreds of dollars from the store..ie: soft/hard corals.

Best part is that it is FREE only cost is the fuel to transport it but hey most of us head to the water for a fish at some stage so its quiet ezy to grab a few drums of saltwater.

Also U will find most marine aquarium shops do the same thing as to use the mix up stuff would cost them hundreds of dollars to fill there tanks.

you can buy 20ltr drums from Big W i think which are cheap as

[MichaelJ]

yeh u just buy big bags of salt and mix the right amount in with fresh water

only anoying thing is with big tanks u need to wait a while before its all settled and ready for fish

[fishyman]

our tank will be around 5 foot long at a guess, our fresh one is 3 or 4ft.

[MichaelJ]

hopefully at the end of the year ill have a 5ft or so tank gota pay halfs with parents ill probs make it native tank