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What kind of maintenance are we talking about though? Like I think the main thing they are worried about is cleaning filters and not so much checking levels of things in the water. Possibly vacuuming out the tank too, though I know a PWC is pretty easy to do.

Well maybe I should rephrase my question then... if you set it up with enough LR and a sand bed do you need some kind of mechanical filtration? I mean can you even vacuum sand like you can the gravel in a FW? And if you have cleaners like shrimp and crabs do you need to really worry much about...

So I'm trying to convince someone to let me get a Salt tank going, specifically a FOWLR build. I think I've gotten past most of the hurdles, and they love the way aquariums look and stuff. However the last hurdle seems to be care and maintenance. From what I've read once you setup a salt tank...

What kind of tank are you going for? I've been considering getting a salt tank (if I can find a good deal on things lol) and that seems to be the most important factor that determines everything else. Like in a Fish Only with Live Rock (no corals) you want like 1.5/2 pounds of Rock per gallon...

So the glass cracking was from an old FW build so it wasn't that I was dropping in LR/Sand. I'm putting this thread here in the salt section because I want a salt tank lol. I'm wondering if maybe just whatever the glass tank was sitting on wasn't level, since like I said I remember that it...

Just for the record I'm 99% sure things weren't just "dropped in" lol. I mean it seemed to be holding up fine until sometime during the night it just randomly decided to crack. It's not like I just dumped gravel/rocks in, heard a crack, and went "nothing to see here, move along" lol. That...

Hello, I just have a quick question I would like some clarification/help on. Namely is there any major differences between a glass tank and an acrylic tank I should think about when buying a tank and setting it up? To be honest I'm really leery of glass because of a bad experience I had in the...

Basically as the title says I'm thinking about setting up a saltwater tank and have some questions. I've had a FW tank in the past and have always been interested in the SW side of things, so was thinking that maybe instead of setting up another FW I would go salt. However, before I do I want...