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Originally Posted by MrMaxwell
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.
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Pretty much never check water after the tank is up and running. Just do water changes every now and then.
Coral will sometimes show signs of stress if something starts going south.
I remember my parents telling me that I couldn't have SW when I was a kid. Too expensive and hard to keep.
After doing SW for over 2 years I think I have it dialed in. I did kill tons of fish, inverts, coral etc... trying to figure stuff out. It's pretty straight forward now.
Last fish I killed was a purple tang that was stuck in a quarantine tank for 6 months since my tank builder said "2 more weeks" for months on the 240 build... was pretty sad but I couldn't do anything about it. If I put it in my other tank the yellow tang probably would have killed it since the tank is small
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