Poll: Freshwater vs. Saltwater

[AquariaGuy]

What type of fish does everyone have?

[Toirtis]

I have had both, but currently have just FW....I will be starting another marine tank up within the year, though.

[Mishy]

Hey guys, you know what I heard......see I was talking to this guy I know who lived in Hong Kong till he was about 2? anyhow he told me over there they keep fish in their tanks to eat them later(- an arawana, prized fish there). Anyhow so he was telling me, it is common for the Chinese to convert SW fish to FW fish and was telling me how to do it. Do you think it is really possible? He also said that you could not have yout typical FW fish in with them, only the tropical can be in that tank. He also told me to stop feeding my fish flakes and feed them real food(live foods).

[Toirtis]

Some brackish fish can be slowly trained over to a freshwater environment (although it is not particularly good for them), but you cannot switch a marine fish over to FW.

Live and frozen foods are superior to flake, but also considerably more expensive....most serious aquarists use a high-quality flake regularly, and supplement with live or frozen once or twice per week.

And yes, many of what we consider to be 'pet' fish are actually food fish in their native ranges...arrowanas are eaten, but I have never heard of anyone eating an Asian aro...it would be too expensive (Australians catch and eat 'Barramundi'...the jardini and leichardi aros).

[Mishy]

So in your opinion.....what is the better quality flakes, I use Nutrifin? As I will be buying my fish prawns and what nots and slowly getting rid of the flakes......wait...i mean I will do that for the ones in my 130g. MY guppies, barbs and rainbows will still get flakes.

[Toirtis]

Sera makes what are probably the best quality flakes that are widely available for FW, and Hikari makes some excellent pelleted foods.

[pluff]

Well i have both Saltwater and Freshwater (African Cichlids) to lazy to write the names of them down :)

[afss]

Both Reef and a very neglected fresh.

Scott

[Drew]

I had every type of fresh tank you can imagine but got rid of most of everything to set up my 90 reef...
I know its not the poll, but I gotta throw this in here... fresh is not as boring as most ppl in the marine hobby think... every aspect of salt has a complementary aspect in fresh... and btw, a properly-done planted tank can kick any reef tank any day!!!
Drew :)
also, afaik, nutrifin is the best flake, hikaris are the best pellets... my fish love em too! :d

[redpaulhus]

Mishy -
I highly recommend the Omega One brand foods, especially their First Flake and Veggie Flake foods.
I have also gotten excellent results from Vibragro granules.

Ocean Nutrition makes an excellent line of frozen foods that I feed to both my marine and FW fish, and I am hoping to try some of their flake foods soon.

I like to feed most of my fishes a variety of frozen foods (mysids, Euphausia pacifica, bloodworms, gut-loaded brine shrimp, etc) along with regular feedings of the above mentioned dry foods (I think the non-frozen foods provide vitamins a purely frozen whole-organism diet lacks). I also feed some fresh veggies and nori to my herbavores, and my native fishes get some live foods (microworms, vinegar eels, bbs, blackworms, etc) until they are weaned to frozen and flake.

Gut loaded crickets are one of my favorite foods for insectavores like oscars and arros...

Oh, and to answer the poll - both, although currently there are more FW gallons than SW gallons...

[Chrismo]

I've seen some beautifull planted tanks. I think Saltwater reefs are usually more interesting... because invertabrates are so cool.

But I think planted tanks look just beautifull and peacefull...

[kentracey]

I have a 65gal (48") planted discus tank, 20gal community tank and my 65gal (36") reef. Salt is way more fun.

[Melody]

I think our fascination with Marine tanks comes from the fact that it is so exotic. I enjoy my Freshwater tanks, but almost every fishkeeper I know has visions of a Marine tank in their future.

[ryan_lalande]

i as well have both...well at least i am setting up fresh right now so close enough

i to have had almsot every type of tank.....and most every tuype of fish....from the killers to the tetras...same with saltwater i think i ahve triued almost every common species and alot of the weird ones/rare

[Cougra]

I have a small 15Gal planted tank that I just love working with along with my 30 Gal SW fish tank and a 15Gal mini reef tank.

[visor]

i have a 90 gl fresh and a 175 gl salt and a 90 gl salt

[ve6djj]

Hi all I have both and would recomend this to all . I think the two types are spectacular in there own ways but I also think go big if you can ,I have 230 and 35 salt and 200,35, 4-40's fresh lots of work and fun.... Caio David