Feed: Starting Saltwater Aquarium Does Not Need To Be Hard - AggScore: 14.0

When starting saltwater aquarium its best for you, and all the living creatures in your aquarium if you get some good help before you get started. Having the right help could be the difference in a beautiful aquarium full of life, or a aquarium that you wish you would have not even set up to begin with. I want to make sure you get it right and not make any bad mistakes, and tell you about a saltwater aquarium guide I have been using.

A lot of people who are starting saltwater aquarium normally just goes to the local pet store, not really knowing exactly what they need. You ask the people working at the pet store what supplies or equipment they need and purchase it. You get home, you are excited and ready to get going starting saltwater aquarium, but the people at the store that sold you all the supplies do not really tell you what you needed to do. So you guess, or maybe try to remember what the tanks at the store look like, but you get it done.

Now you are done with starting saltwater aquarium and you are ready to go get fish. You go to the store buy fish and bring them home and put them in the tank. A week goes by and the fish start to get sick or maybe one died. You call the store that you purchase the fish from and ask them why the fish died. They tell you they have no idea and you cannot return the fish because they do not give refunds on fish after a couple days.

Well that is how it happened for me, and I was very disappointed with the store that I purchased all of my equipment for starting saltwater aquarium. They sold me all the equipment and I set it up they way they told me to, but my fish still died. After that happened I searched all over for information and found a great saltwater aquarium guide that I found to be priceless. It showed me everything I needed to know about starting saltwater aquarium, and I have not had a single fish die since I started using it.

Now you see the bad mistake I made by just rushing and starting saltwater aquarium and taking the advice of the pet store, not knowing exactly what I was doing. Not only did this cost me money for the fish that died, I also had to drain my tank and start completely over.

I hope that you can have a little better success than I had when I was starting saltwater aquarium. If I would of known about the saltwater aquarium guide, I could have avoided all this hassle and set my aquarium up right the very first time. I supposed that I learned what not to do when starting saltwater aquarium, however it did end up costing me more time and money.

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What equipment is needed for a saltwater aquarium?

I have a freshwater aquarium right now and would like to switch it eventually to a small saltwater aquarium. My tank is 10 gallons so I was planning on only getting one clown fish with a starfish or shrimp. I have a heater, an out of the tank filter, and thermometer. Is a protein skimmer and an air pump also necessary? Also my tank light is quite old and doesn't have the wattage on it, so should i assume that I would need to upgrade the cover on my aquarium?

Answer
a 10 gallon saltwater are for experts, beginners shouldnt start with smaller tanks because the smaller you go the harder it will be, as a 10 gallon will have water parameters that litteray will chan ge daily. You wont need a protein skimmer on a 10 gallon but they have nano ones that are better than nothing. Even though a single clownfish in a 10 gallon isnt much, the water parameters will kill most beginner saltwater keepers.