First buy the tank. Get live sand and place it in the tank. Get buckets of R/O or dechlorinated water and add measured amounts of salt to each bucket to help disperse and distribute the salt.
Place a large cup in the tank and fill up the tank by introducing the water to the tank by first going into the cup to help minimize the sand clouding up the water, though the cloud will disperse and settle after a while. Plug-in your filter and protein skimmer. Wait three days and add Live Rock. Live rock acts as a natural filter and good bacteria booster for tanks as well as food for some types of tank inhabitants, it also helps reduce nitrates.
After another 4 days test your salinity, high range PH, Ammonia, Nitrite, nitrate, etc. Make any adjustments needed to balance out the tanks by adding needed chemicals. New tanks both fresh and salt go through a cycle which on the average take about a week.
First ammonia spikes, then it decomposes into nitrites, which in turn becomes nitrates. After the week is over buy a few damsel fish. Damsels are pretty, inexpensive and basically the saltwater cannonfodder. They will help the tank build up its good bacteria with their waste.
You will develope brown looking algae during this start up phase. it will clear on it's own after a while. With saltwater the more patience you have the better your tank will do. Also with saltwater, the bigger the tank the easier it is.
It is called coraline algae.
If you are using salt to help treat an illness, then you will need aquarium salt or epsom salt; if it's for a saltwater tank, then it's marine salt.In either case, never use table salt as the iodine will kill your fish
A saltwater aquarium usually takes about a month to cycle if done properly. Once the tank is cycled you slowly add fish and coral making sure to not overload the bio-load and shock the system. A saltwater system is considered to be a seasoned aquarium after 1 year, and by then is usually considered a gorgeous reef tank.
In freshwater yes. I would not recommend it in saltwater. If it is not in the ocean naturally I would not put it in a saltwater tank. There isn't too much you can't put in freshwater.
no, angel fish lives in fresh water like in ponds and lakes but clown fish lives in saltwater like the sea
because when you go to the coast you need a tank for the salt water fish
Yes but you need to buy a saltwater filter to replace the freshwater one.
No, you need a special salt for a saltwater tank.
to siphon you wont need to put your hands in.
uhhh.. yeh buddy
yes
77-82 F is appropriate for saltwater tropicals.
No.
I use to own a fish only pet store. The saltwater tanks were a nightmare, constant testing, etc. I would recommend you go to a Pet Shop that has salt water fish, preferrably a one owner store. Make sure the saltwater tanks look good to you, clear water, healthy fish and then ask the owner your questions.
i think you would need a medium tank for your fish.
No. Not in the traditional definition of the tropical tank. A tropical tank is a freshwater aquarium. Regal Tangs are saltwater fish and go in a saltwater tank (marine aquarium).
if you have live rock or certain types of coral in your tank the light that is connected to your tank will creat oxygen through photosynthsis with the live rock and coral.