sharkbait9
Active Member
Originally Posted by glowplug
I dont doubt that its good advice, ill try it tonight and probably continue to do so till I man up and get better equipment! Instead of new living things! But when your first starting out you want SOOOO much. I have heard horror stories about fishkeeping before technology caught up with the hobby.Like NEVER changing water! You got any crazy stories sharkbait? WAIT, you know how ive been lately!!!! You might want to keep em simple!---#!!-!-!~- HAHAHA
I'm only playing around with you and that whole southern stereo type. The horror stories are not really horror stories, but by today standards I guess you could say they are. Most of my earlier knowledge came from a store that I have nuked many of times on this and other boards. I’m sure you have read some if not most of them. Like upon stating up a dish tank you buy it all at one, tank stand package salt mix , heater an hydrometer, crushed coral at least 4 inches of it, filter (fluvial was the best at this time). And two to three damsels they were cheap and the hardiest. You could have ventured into getting the wet dry but they were not as advance as they are today. Bring all your new stuff home. Set it up under gravel filter place two power heads on up tubes. wash out crushed coral place in tank, mix tap water and de-chlorinator in a bucket add salt. Mix by hand until salt is dissolved, dump into tank keep doing this until your tank is filled if salinity is high remove some water and add tap water. Once water is at appropriate salinity. Next turn on heater and get tank up to 76 degrees. Set up filter and start filtering. To cycle tank place fish in tank and let them acclimate to water temp of fifteen minutes. Add one cup of tank water to bag and reseal. Wait 30 minutes and add another cup of tank water to bag. Once thirty minutes has passed open bag and dump fish and water into tank. Sit back and enjoy. Test waters once a week for ammonia, trites,trates, and ph. Once your levels have spiked and have dropped down to the safe limits which were not zero, it was hard to get your waters down to zero back in those days. Test kits used to say what the safe limits were, nothing what is expectable by today’s standards. But if one of your fish should die during cycling, OH tank the dead fish out no sense keeping a dead fish in your tank it will pollute your tank. Yeah, that makes sense…..wait…..what. So once your tank is done cycling if you want to, you can bring back the fish that are still alive and trade them in for credit on a new fish purchase. So wait the poor fish suffer and cycle the tank and when they do their job I can send them back to go into some one else tank to suffer again. Yeah…..wait…….what. Ok so any way, as your tank starts to mature you will need to vacuum your crushed coral or stir it up. Any water you remove needs to be replaced, get a bucket and mix salt and tap water and fill tank back up. When anything new came out it had a “reason” and you just dosed it as per the instructions. Then came new test and we all tested and thought we were doing great. So as it stood back in the day are mortality rate was high and ungodly because of price. The reason why saltwater fish was a hard hobby and only for the advance in fish husbandry was because the lack of technology and advancement we have today. The wealth of knowledge was maybe worth five bucks by today standards. Saltwater fish keeping is not hard by any standard, it just has a different chemistry then freshwater. But it really comes down to a couple of things, water changes with a good quality salt, proper lighting, crushed coral beds are horrible and under gravel filters only killed the good and polluted the water. If this information was available to us back in the day mortality would have been a lot less. Again saltwater keeping was just becoming available to the common person. Plus all info was really based off of fresh water fish with just a little bit of saltwater knowledge. Algae was due to sun light, nothing else. Why would it be from anything else tap water is what we drink, so it has to be good for fish. I could go on and on about this, but I’ll see if other old school keepers chime in on the travesty we did back in the day.
Oh yea, this hobby is like drugs, you try weed at a party and then go to the stronger stuff. Same idea in saltwater, you start off just wanting to try it and see the next thing you know your a joesing trying the bigger and better stuff, running around like a crack head looking for a fix
I dont doubt that its good advice, ill try it tonight and probably continue to do so till I man up and get better equipment! Instead of new living things! But when your first starting out you want SOOOO much. I have heard horror stories about fishkeeping before technology caught up with the hobby.Like NEVER changing water! You got any crazy stories sharkbait? WAIT, you know how ive been lately!!!! You might want to keep em simple!---#!!-!-!~- HAHAHA
I'm only playing around with you and that whole southern stereo type. The horror stories are not really horror stories, but by today standards I guess you could say they are. Most of my earlier knowledge came from a store that I have nuked many of times on this and other boards. I’m sure you have read some if not most of them. Like upon stating up a dish tank you buy it all at one, tank stand package salt mix , heater an hydrometer, crushed coral at least 4 inches of it, filter (fluvial was the best at this time). And two to three damsels they were cheap and the hardiest. You could have ventured into getting the wet dry but they were not as advance as they are today. Bring all your new stuff home. Set it up under gravel filter place two power heads on up tubes. wash out crushed coral place in tank, mix tap water and de-chlorinator in a bucket add salt. Mix by hand until salt is dissolved, dump into tank keep doing this until your tank is filled if salinity is high remove some water and add tap water. Once water is at appropriate salinity. Next turn on heater and get tank up to 76 degrees. Set up filter and start filtering. To cycle tank place fish in tank and let them acclimate to water temp of fifteen minutes. Add one cup of tank water to bag and reseal. Wait 30 minutes and add another cup of tank water to bag. Once thirty minutes has passed open bag and dump fish and water into tank. Sit back and enjoy. Test waters once a week for ammonia, trites,trates, and ph. Once your levels have spiked and have dropped down to the safe limits which were not zero, it was hard to get your waters down to zero back in those days. Test kits used to say what the safe limits were, nothing what is expectable by today’s standards. But if one of your fish should die during cycling, OH tank the dead fish out no sense keeping a dead fish in your tank it will pollute your tank. Yeah, that makes sense…..wait…..what. So once your tank is done cycling if you want to, you can bring back the fish that are still alive and trade them in for credit on a new fish purchase. So wait the poor fish suffer and cycle the tank and when they do their job I can send them back to go into some one else tank to suffer again. Yeah…..wait…….what. Ok so any way, as your tank starts to mature you will need to vacuum your crushed coral or stir it up. Any water you remove needs to be replaced, get a bucket and mix salt and tap water and fill tank back up. When anything new came out it had a “reason” and you just dosed it as per the instructions. Then came new test and we all tested and thought we were doing great. So as it stood back in the day are mortality rate was high and ungodly because of price. The reason why saltwater fish was a hard hobby and only for the advance in fish husbandry was because the lack of technology and advancement we have today. The wealth of knowledge was maybe worth five bucks by today standards. Saltwater fish keeping is not hard by any standard, it just has a different chemistry then freshwater. But it really comes down to a couple of things, water changes with a good quality salt, proper lighting, crushed coral beds are horrible and under gravel filters only killed the good and polluted the water. If this information was available to us back in the day mortality would have been a lot less. Again saltwater keeping was just becoming available to the common person. Plus all info was really based off of fresh water fish with just a little bit of saltwater knowledge. Algae was due to sun light, nothing else. Why would it be from anything else tap water is what we drink, so it has to be good for fish. I could go on and on about this, but I’ll see if other old school keepers chime in on the travesty we did back in the day.
Oh yea, this hobby is like drugs, you try weed at a party and then go to the stronger stuff. Same idea in saltwater, you start off just wanting to try it and see the next thing you know your a joesing trying the bigger and better stuff, running around like a crack head looking for a fix
