Hi everyone, I posted recently and a lot of you had great answers so I’m asking more questions.
I’ve only ever had beta fish before and that was an extremely long time ago. I was going to get back into the hobby and get another beta when I found myself in the position of inheriting someone’s full 20 gal set up with two clown fish for extremely cheap because they are moving and can’t take it with. The timing is not ideal as I would have loved to do extensive research weeks before making the decision to have a salt water aquarium and have the tank cycled and ready but here we are. I’m picking up the equipment, tank and fish today which is an hour away. I plan to siphon as much existing water as possible into five gallon buckets and transport the fish in one of the buckets.
All of the videos I have watched have been about how to set up the tank but none with enough information to go into this with the confidence needed. Like I said, not an ideal situation but we’re working with it. She’s giving me the filter, heater, lights, food, water test kit, salt and a cleaning kit. Is there anything else I need? I was planning on replacing the existing substrate with live sand, can I just add the existing water to the new sand? What does your weekly maintenance schedule look like? Any advice appreciated, please be nice lol
I’ve only ever had beta fish before and that was an extremely long time ago. I was going to get back into the hobby and get another beta when I found myself in the position of inheriting someone’s full 20 gal set up with two clown fish for extremely cheap because they are moving and can’t take it with. The timing is not ideal as I would have loved to do extensive research weeks before making the decision to have a salt water aquarium and have the tank cycled and ready but here we are. I’m picking up the equipment, tank and fish today which is an hour away. I plan to siphon as much existing water as possible into five gallon buckets and transport the fish in one of the buckets.
All of the videos I have watched have been about how to set up the tank but none with enough information to go into this with the confidence needed. Like I said, not an ideal situation but we’re working with it. She’s giving me the filter, heater, lights, food, water test kit, salt and a cleaning kit. Is there anything else I need? I was planning on replacing the existing substrate with live sand, can I just add the existing water to the new sand? What does your weekly maintenance schedule look like? Any advice appreciated, please be nice lol