From a normal fish to tank to a salt water aquarium?
Me and my boyfriend currently have a normal tropical tank set up, we put the heater up today. We are planning to buy a pufferfish this friday, we read up that it is essential to keep them in a salt water aquarium? If any of you know if Pufferfish genuinly need to be in salt water please tell me?
Also, how do you set up a salt water aquarium from a normal tropical tank? The tank is 100 litre.
Although there is freshwater puffer fishes, it’s either normally brackish water to saltwater. When you set this up, you need to cycle the tank for 2-4 weeks, meaning you need a hydrometer (Floating is better), you need a good filter, you need circulation of the water, you don’t need a protein skimmer, but you can use a surface skimmer instead, you need the ph, ammonia, nitrate test kits, you will need to have hiding places like live rock, or things that these puffers can hide, you will need to understand the meaning of a saltwater aquarium, you can search this through wikipedia or about.com. Search marine aquarium set ups and maintaining marine aquariums. You should use water conditioners. To boost your filtration for faster cycling of the tank, you can use stress zyme. What the good bacteria in the tank does is it reduces nitrates in the water. If you have live rock in there, it also helps reduce nitrates because of the minerals. However, live rock will also produce ammonia.
It is very important that you cycle the tank, you have to understand that there are many diseases for marine fish. Marine fish, including brackish puffer fishes are very fragile and needs to be cared for on a daily basis. Puffer fish are aggressive and should be kept with species that are aggressive like they are, meaning if you put clownfishes in there with them, it’s more than likely the clownfish will be eaten.
The salinity for true saltwater fish should be kept at 1.016-1.025. For brackish water you can go to 1.008-1.006, anything below will be considered dangerous for saltwater fishes, brackish water will still survive, however, if you keep it low like that, the fishes can die due to lack of salt and what it does is that the fishes kidneys will go into failure first, then all the other organs will shut down.
You need to do extensive research before buying and setting up an saltwater aquarium. If you don’t, it could be very costly.
I’ve been in the marine aquarium since I quit freshwater fishes for over 7 years ago. I’ve been in the aquarium hobby for 17+ years.
click on this link to see how my tank is, the video is old, but new ones will be posted shortly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ool0nUvCm8
I hope this helps, thanks for asking……………
Although there is freshwater puffer fishes, it’s either normally brackish water to saltwater. When you set this up, you need to cycle the tank for 2-4 weeks, meaning you need a hydrometer (Floating is better), you need a good filter, you need circulation of the water, you don’t need a protein skimmer, but you can use a surface skimmer instead, you need the ph, ammonia, nitrate test kits, you will need to have hiding places like live rock, or things that these puffers can hide, you will need to understand the meaning of a saltwater aquarium, you can search this through wikipedia or about.com. Search marine aquarium set ups and maintaining marine aquariums. You should use water conditioners. To boost your filtration for faster cycling of the tank, you can use stress zyme. What the good bacteria in the tank does is it reduces nitrates in the water. If you have live rock in there, it also helps reduce nitrates because of the minerals. However, live rock will also produce ammonia.
It is very important that you cycle the tank, you have to understand that there are many diseases for marine fish. Marine fish, including brackish puffer fishes are very fragile and needs to be cared for on a daily basis. Puffer fish are aggressive and should be kept with species that are aggressive like they are, meaning if you put clownfishes in there with them, it’s more than likely the clownfish will be eaten.
The salinity for true saltwater fish should be kept at 1.016-1.025. For brackish water you can go to 1.008-1.006, anything below will be considered dangerous for saltwater fishes, brackish water will still survive, however, if you keep it low like that, the fishes can die due to lack of salt and what it does is that the fishes kidneys will go into failure first, then all the other organs will shut down.
You need to do extensive research before buying and setting up an saltwater aquarium. If you don’t, it could be very costly.
I’ve been in the marine aquarium since I quit freshwater fishes for over 7 years ago. I’ve been in the aquarium hobby for 17+ years.
click on this link to see how my tank is, the video is old, but new ones will be posted shortly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ool0nUvCm8
I hope this helps, thanks for asking……………
November 5th, 2009 at 3:52 pmReferences :