Completely agree on the ease compared to freshwater and friends commenting haha. It can be as easy as a freshwater. The only difference is having to make saltwater or even easier, just buying pre-made from your LFS.

The shop i got my set up from told me to keep it super simple and not over think it. Start with a fowlr setup then work up to corals invertibrates etc. Its just as easy as a freshwater imo its just less forgiving when it goes sideways

@@robsrandomrants1183 agreed. Sounds like they steered you right

Do you think I should start with freshwater first? Or its alright to start immediately into saltwater? Im planning to start soon but I'm not sure if I should immediately go with saltwater.

@@jcferrero09 if you ultimately want saltwater, just start there. But make sure you do more research, if you think you're ready, do more research I promise you haven't done enough. Saltwater is more expensive and you things can go very wrong if you don't know what you're doing. Once things get going though they can be very simple like freshwater

Matt Gosling sane here

Thanks! You'll be glad you did. It's now my favorite tank. I tried to move too quickly though and wasn't fully informed and didn't always get good advice about what I could put in my setup. Have had to re-home a few things...like the starfish and Condi Anemone. But overall, it's still going strong with the same exact setup.

+Fun With The Bugs cool! I'll have to check out your video too!

Saltwater isn't as scary as many people make it out to be provided you research the heck out of it first. There is also a huge variance between a 20 gallon FOWLR (Fish Only with Live Rock) and a 100+ gallon fully active reef tank with Tangs, Angelfish, etc. I have a vid showing how to build a 20 Long FOWLR on my channel for a few hundred dollars with all accessories included.

Jester's Aquatics I’ll be checking this out I have a 20 gallon tank that I may convert from a fresh to a salt

Almost a month in, tank is cycled has one orchid dotty back, this Friday I’m getting my first corals, supper scared I feel like I’m gonna kill them and I have no idea what to do with my lights and I’m scared they are gonna be unhealthy or something, supper excited still just gotta remember to ask plenty of questions and wish myself luck!!

@@nulla6602 how'd it work out?

@@kygu honestly it’s not hard if anything it’s a little bit easier water changes are far less frequent yeah you have to keep on top of water chemistry but with the salts they have available these days everything is done for you just get it to the right solidity a decent skimmer a small sump that can be a container it does not need to be anything fancy.

They sure are! Awesom

Hey Cody, there are several really great fish stores in the area. Shoot me a message if you want to know more. When getting started, I frequented Animal Adventure, Aquariums Unlimited, Legendary Aquatics.

Thanks Alan. I do really try my best to provide good water for them to live in

+David Towell cool man. I'm actually in Chesapeake as well

Do you know how to use periods

That’s a lot of tanks! If you already have that many, it shouldn’t be much more work for you to have a saltwater.

+dwsdarius thanks Darius. It's been a ton of fun getting this tank going. The corals are addicting...

Phillip Owens north GA? I’m interested.

Not to start. It requires additional lighting and expenses. Work on keeping water parameters right for the fish first. I made a lot of mistakes with my start. Some chain stores were willing to sell anything regardless of setup

+k lee 😉 I refuse to take the blame. 😂

It's really cool to see.

Hi Stephanie. I didn't use anything to hold my rocks together. I just made sure they locked together pretty well. I do have putty that can be used, but I opted not to use it so that I can pull it out to frag corals as needed or rearrange if I didn't like the look.

Around 4000$.

You can do it for a lot less than 4000$. My setup cost about 900$

Most frags can go for about 20$ or under for a small piece

They are the best!

I am buying a 75g, would also like to know this. I dont really want a sump.

They really are beautiful and offer so many new options. I moved to a biocube, but am trying to make it a beautiful coral garden.

Good luck! They are very beautiful tanks.

It is a hang on back skimmer. I think it is listed in the description.

Other than that your tank looks great! Happy reefing!

I was thinking the same I always stay away from anenomes except for the bubble tips and rock anenome

Thanks! Glad to hear you like the videos

i also flushed my condy because it killed all my fish

I'm still an amateur as well. :) I shouldn't have put the two different anemones in together and ended up removing the Condy. That said, the original is still alive and I've had it almost a year now. I feed it frozen mysis shrimp with the rest of the fish and every once in a while some silverside fish.

Yay nice tanks

Ahhh man the puns!

Challenge the Wild hey dude.can I have a shout out

For the 110, you’d want a more elaborate setup than I showed. You’ll want a sump

u mean mesmerizing...

In area nearest lfs is about 2 hours and nearest pets mart is an hour away

Fish Freaks, Nebraska Aquatic Supply. Both great shops. I prefer NAS.

I found that about 6 months later. They have an amazing selection!

cool guy 45 you need a filter. I plan on using a cannister filter

It is the Eshopps PSK-75H Protein Skimmer: amzn.to/2touX4J

Start with a "Fish Only" saltwater tank with some live rock and live sand. If you have a local fish store nearby, you can buy pre-mixed water to make it easy to do water changes in the beginning.

I understand. haha. Just looked at your channel subbed and like the saltwater tank you've got going.

Creative Fish Studio thank you so much I appreciate the kind words 🤗🤗

I have seen a really nice 20L

20 gallon

You really should! I just stumbled on Pet Paradise yesterday and they have a ton of fish too. I just heard that Legendary Aquatics is moving to a bigger storefront. They are awesome.

pet paradise and simply pets are my go to's, serverts brothers own them and they have some pretty cool stuff. actually working on my first saltwater now so your video really helped me out, especially being that i live in the area! im sure ill catch ya at some point in one of these stores haha

That's awesome Alyssa! I actually just went to Pet Paradise for the first time last week. I happened to stop at the Chartway Credit Union across the street and happened to see it on my way out. They have a huge selection as well.

eshopps PSK skimmer. they are like $170ish

That’s awesome. Yorktown is beautiful.

The sea urchin?

+Marisa Snowden yes and powerheads, some live sand and rock to get it cycled quickly. You can clean your HOB filter and use the filter cartridge and put bags of chemipure and activated carbon in it if you want. At first I just ran the filter without chemi-pure or activated carbon.

Any tank that is well sealed can handle freshwater or saltwater and hoods are universal as well. For the filter it depends on what kind it is (ie can it handle different media bags, or is it just a straight carbon filter). The only type of filter media that is universal from Saltwater to Freshwater is Carbon, any other type of filter media should be discarded. Made that mistake when I first started up my saltwater tank and had a Fluval BioMax bag running in my Fluval 50 HOB. Needless to say it didn't end well. I recommend a filter that allows you to put a variety of media bags in it and once the tank cycles, add a Chemipure Elite bag. For the lighting you will almost certainly need to replace it if it isn't LED and definitely replace it if you want to do corals (no stock light is suitable for a variety of corals). I would personally replace the tank heater as well. They are not expensive but they can turn your tank upside down if they go wrong. Some tank heaters also are not manufactured with saltwater in mind. I ran the stock Aqueon 200 watt heater that came with my tank and then I noticed that there was peeling/flaking on the heater and it turned out the saltwater was corroding some kind of protective layer Aqueon put on the heater. I replaced it with due post haste for a brand new one that is suitable for Marine tanks for a whopping $20. Much better than having metal flakes in my tank or worse, chilled or boiled fish.