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Originally Posted by barelist
It's really not bad at all... I remember FW being more of a pain... also FW tended to smell. Our SW tank doesn't smell at all 
Think SW used to be really hard 10 years ago+, but the tech has really come a long way since.
Also, people tend to not realize that not only to a lot of SW fish get huge, but they are very active and need tons of space. Most FW fish are pretty lazy... also the water they live in can normally be a lot dirtier than SW needs to be. |
Yeah, you have to keep a FW tank clean as hell.. I just used magnums and gravel vac'd it often. If you use a nice fine sand (not like beach sand.. maybe 10x or so that) it works fairly well. A-lot of people try to use under gravel filters and I never did like those stupid things.
I don't remember 100% but I had some kind of special lights, too, and they caused less algae to grow- so that was really good. The "fish" smell I kind of like it because I'm not right(I'll drive by oil wells or diesel trucks and love the smell)- but if it gets to be too pronounced, it's fucking horrible, for sure.
Salt water maybe it got better but I never really fucked with it much. It seemed a-lot more difficult back then. In my fw tank I checked PH, didn't add chlorinated water, added water slowly after cleaing the tank and that was it. Gravel vac and change the filters often and no problem.