AprilFaith
Aquarium Advice Newbie
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2013
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- 2
I am new to the hobby of salt water aquariums. My daughter took a marine biology class and begged me to get a tank. She told me it was easy. She told me she would handle everything. Although my daughter does handle some aspects of the tank...I'm the one reading, researching and realizing that I'm in WAY over my head.
So here I am...signing up and praying for help in how to do this the right way.
We began by buying a salt water tank off of an online classified ad. The previous owner said he didn't have time to take care of it...this should have been my first hint that I was getting in over my head.
We added 2 maroon clowns, 1 tang, 2 cardinals, 1 coral beauty angel and 1 purple sea anemone (conti??) When one clown died, we replaced it with one royal gramma and a long tentacle sea anemone. Unfortunately, our fish died one by one due to ick. Me and my daughter were devastated. She cried a lot as she felt responsible.
After losing all of our fish, we decided to take our time and figure out how to do this the right way.
The first thing we learned...the people at the fish store lied to us. We always explained our tank, our lack of knowledge and believed everything we bought would do fine...we were told we were safe with our purchases.
We have cleaned the red bacteria that was on the glass. We currently have a small forest of aiptasia on our live rock, most are about an inch tall. We have not added fish for the past month as we are a little scared to hurt any more fish.
I do not know a lot about salt water aquariums but I hope to be able to learn enough to be able to keep a salt water tank with happy and healthy fish.
So here I am...signing up and praying for help in how to do this the right way.
We began by buying a salt water tank off of an online classified ad. The previous owner said he didn't have time to take care of it...this should have been my first hint that I was getting in over my head.
We added 2 maroon clowns, 1 tang, 2 cardinals, 1 coral beauty angel and 1 purple sea anemone (conti??) When one clown died, we replaced it with one royal gramma and a long tentacle sea anemone. Unfortunately, our fish died one by one due to ick. Me and my daughter were devastated. She cried a lot as she felt responsible.
After losing all of our fish, we decided to take our time and figure out how to do this the right way.
The first thing we learned...the people at the fish store lied to us. We always explained our tank, our lack of knowledge and believed everything we bought would do fine...we were told we were safe with our purchases.
We have cleaned the red bacteria that was on the glass. We currently have a small forest of aiptasia on our live rock, most are about an inch tall. We have not added fish for the past month as we are a little scared to hurt any more fish.
I do not know a lot about salt water aquariums but I hope to be able to learn enough to be able to keep a salt water tank with happy and healthy fish.