Wanting to buy True Percula Clown Fish

[trout_pout]

how often must you add the salt?

 

[DrOizo]

You measure the Sg using a Hydrometer or stick on meausing thingy and when the sg drops to below the level you want.. say 1.024 you slowly add premixed solution or salt into your sump untill the SG comes up to the level you want. The sg usually climbs though due to evaporation (This is into Gallons a day!!!) so You need a good RO unit and a top off unit aswell other wise the SG will be way too high!

 

[trout_pout]

are clownfish freshwater also?
I think I read something like that on google
Is freshwater just the normal water that you keep like the corys and the tetras in?

 

[modernhamlet]

Clownfish are exclusively saltwater and will die in very short order in a tank without the proper chemistry.

If you do decide to take up the challenge of keeping saltwater fish, I would urge you to read an entire book on the subject before you buy anything else.

 

[DrOizo]

As said by Mh if your looking into SW make sure you read lots of books and spend alot of time on the SW forums

 

[big_fresh]

are clownfish freshwater also?
I think I read something like that on google
Is freshwater just the normal water that you keep like the corys and the tetras in?

g'day trout_pout,

maybe you are thinking of a clown Knife fish...these are freshwater preadatory fish...

and yes FW is water that you keep cories and tetras in.

gee...it seems that the effect of finding NEMO has been a universal 'cash in' marketing booster for fish shops.

They've got "starter kits" in some LFS here in sydney (thankfully my LFS has not tried to cash in on the Nemo phenomenon) starting at around $350 (including fish!)

However I didn't see a protein skimmer or any live rock. i feel bad for those fish.

 

[smoKe]

Goldfish it is..

 

[trout_pout]

Looks like i'll be going tropical..so, stupid question #1
What would be the next best thing to a clownfish which fish is familiar in the tropical category?

 

[modernhamlet]

Looks like i'll be going tropical..so, stupid question #1
What would be the next best thing to a clownfish which fish is familiar in the tropical category?

If you're looking for similar behavior, perhaps a pair of dwarf cichlids like Kribs, Rams, or Apistos? They can be colorful, active, and tend to center their lives around a "home".

Not the same obviously, but it's the best cross-over I could think of...

 

[WayneVT08]

If you think about the LFS, they keep many fish in small tanks, working at a fish store you realize how fast the fish come and go. Most fish only stay for no more than a week, being in a tank that small for a week isn't even going to phase them, but say you put a small Panther Grouper in a 20 gallon tank, he'd be fine for a while, but would eventually outgrow the tank.

And another thing the fish stores have that regular consumers don't is water volume, many stores have very large systems, larger than most of us can keep at home, water volume is a huge thing.

You could have a 5 gallon display tank with a huge sump/refugium in the closet behind the tank. And 20 clownfish in a 20 gallon tank, with about 1200 gallons of saltwater in the system would make no dent in the potential bioload of that system.

It all doesn't come down to how big the display is, just how big the entire system is.

Keep that in mind, read all the sticky's on the SW forums here and read books that you can get from the LFS. The Conscientious Marine Aquarist is a very good book that everyone should read.

 

[Snooks1!]

Apr 15 2004, 10:46 AM

 

[Scotty001]

I wonder if he ever did get his nemo lol.

 

[andywg]

I wonder if he ever did get his nemo lol.

If he did I hope he ignored most of the advice up the top. Some of it is so wrong and misleading it makes my eyes hurt.

 

[BigC]

This thread started in 2004, Andy right some of the replies are misleading.
Regards
BigC