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Laccon
05-19-2009, 11:30 PM
Looking to get a salt water tank within the next couple months, and none of the pet stores around my area have bigger tanks and dont really know much about salt water fish/tanks....anyone know any good sites that sell larger salt water tanks? looking for around 75-125gallon tank, or any good sites to read up on maintaining them and such? all the sites i keep finding are crap, thankss!

Ignot
05-20-2009, 03:17 AM
Salt water is a bitch.

Meos
05-20-2009, 07:29 AM
Depending what your planning on keeping, Salt water tank isn't that bad. But most corals and fish you can find are really pretty hardy.

Care isn't that much of a hassel either. I'd say the worst part of a salt tank is the inital invesment, especially for something in the 100g range. Nice light setup is the key to keep corals. A nice filter system/pumps.

Then a salt tank is something you need to slowly build, you can't buy 1000 dollars of crap put it in your tank and away it goes. Need to add piece by piece slowly to so that the bacteria in your filter system build up the capacity to process the ammonia given off by the living things in your tank.

A quick google search will reveal alot of forums to ask specific questions, I found my 125g tank on Ebay.. So, I'd let your fingers do the walking. There is alot to know, but once you've spent the money and have a nice system up and running its a pleasure to watch and it nearly takes care of itself.