How do i take care of a saltwater aquarium??

Question

like keeping the right salt level

Answer 1

Salt water aquariums need not be that difficult to get going. I don't know where you live, but there is a tank kit that most pet store in North America called the Marineland eclipse 29 gallon. It comes with a heater, 3 stage filter system and florescent lighting. If you are only interested in marine fish (and the odd invertebrate), that is a good tank to go with. All you would need is a hydrometer test kit, salt,about ten pounds of live sand, a few pounds of live rock and some reverse osmosis cleaned water. You can maintain a tank like that with no more extra work then a regular tank (except that you would have to pre-mix the salt water for water changes). You only top-up evaporated water with more water (no salt). Some of the newer-designed fake corals look pretty good. The difficulty comes when you start trying to take care of corals. They require exact feeding and water quality and to maintain them you would have to purchase skimmers, refugiums, halide lights, sumps etc.

Answer 2

I have set up a saltwater tank about 5 months ago and have had almost no problems with it. Just test the salinity daily at first untill it stabilizes. You are supposed to test nitrate, Ph, Nitrite, Acidity, and Temperature, Bit I only test salt and tempeature and havent had any corals or anemonies die yet. Mainly get a good amount of snails and crabs. My main problem at first whas that I had nothing to feed the crabs so they were attacking fish and Corals. So pick up some pellets for the crabs. I do a 25-40% water change once a month. If your going to add any aggressive fish like damsels do it last do they dont get territorial. I lost a lost of money that way.

Answer 3

Go to a website called "About.com" they have a link to a saltwater startup and maintenance list of things to do when starting a marine tank.

Saltwater tanks are the most difficult to keep healthy, but they are the easiest to start. Freshwater is the hardest to start, but the easiest to maintain once it gets through the nitrogen cycle.

Do your research and do your 25-30% weekly water changes and you should be OK.

Answer 4

To answer the basic part of your question, a device known as a refractometer is used to measure the salinity or specific gravity of water. Hydrometers are also used.

Answer 5

get books, magazines and start with a simple fish only tank, and pray...

Answer 6

i would do some research on it read some books or look it up