Marine or tropical.

[WILDER]

If you had the money would you stay in tropical or go marine, i would love a marine tank as i love clown fish, but its looks so complicated to me, what your thoughts.

 

[FalconStorm]

If I had the money, I would have a house full of tropical tanks. Marine tanks are nice, but they spike so easily and I would be constantly fretting about it. Part of the reason I have my tanks are for stress relief, so that would kind of defeat the purpose. besides, I can see nice reef tanks and stuff at my lfs. That's enough for me.

 

[jflowers]

I have both and still get as much enjoyment out of my FW tanks. The activity is very interesting in my FW tanks, in my SW tank I love finding new and interesting life appearing on the rocks almost everyday.

If you can manage FW then there is not much more to keeping marine, just more of everything you do allready, plus a couple of extra bits of equipment (skimmer and extra power heads). Live rock supplies most of the filtration and that can be expensive when you need 1lb per gallon.

Jon

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I love marine tanks, but i've heard they are a heck of a lot harder to keep and maintain than freshwater tropical ones and i think theres more variety/bigger selection in tropical freshwater fish than marine ones.
Marine tanks look stunning too but they take so long to mature....
I suppose i'd go for a giant freshwater tank, either that or a marine one and just employ somone to do all the hard work

 

[One_Trick_Pony]

gotta go with several tropical ones

 

[Undawada]

There are a lot of really fascinating marines, especially when it comes to invertibrates.

It's a lot more expensive and a little more work, but is worth it if you can afford both, IMHO.

I would love to have a marine tank, but alas, I'm too poor

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Isn't it true that for your average 3inch marine fish it could set you back £15?

 

[WILDER]

And a hear that marine salt can cost over £100 pound or more for the year, and the rocks well £700 pounds for some.

 

[George Farmer]

Marines are by far the more conventionally beautiful. However if I had unlimited funds I think that I would prefer to see a 10 foot heavily planted Discus tank than a similar sized Reef tank. I have seen coral reefs iup close in person and know how awesome they are but my personal taste lies with the greenery of freshwater.

 

[jflowers]

And a hear that marine salt can cost over £100 pound or more for the year, and the rocks well £700 pounds for some.

£100 is way under the cost for salt, if you have a reasonable size tank, usually its reccommended to start as big as you can afford - 50g +. I started with a 32imp g and have had some lovely results so far (6 months old now). I recently started up a 10imp g as well, no fish yet.

Salt and RO water cost me around £10.50 a week for top-ups and water changes. It will be less hopefully when I get the hair algae under control. Live rock has cost me around £320 for both tanks.

I agree SW fish are more colourful, but an African lake tank can rival a SW tank anyday, but like I said before, the variety of life and the surprises you get with a reef are fantastic. I would not give up any of my tanks over another.

Jon

 

[Bloo]

If cost wasn't an issue, I'd have a massive tank for pl*cs
In addition I'd have a huge house that could house it (!) and also a marine tank.
Oh what the heck - if money wasn't an issue, I'd have a farm, a huge house and loads of fishtanks etc. etc.

 

[fishwatcher]

I would definitely go with tropical. Though saltwater has some beautiful, colorful creatures, I think freshwater has just as many, they are just more understated.

 

[Paul_MTS]

unlimited funds i would do a several massive FW as the big fish are gorgeous!!

 

[debiasir]

i would stay tropical and have a huge coldwater set up to, i am not keen on marine to be honest

 

[guppygirl]

Well, I'm a green person, a coral reef gets me a little, but there's nothing like a lush green paradise.
Depends on your taste.