POLL: Once you go salt, you never go back?

[55Reef]

Like most everyone else. I started with FW. Oscars, Arrowanas,
Jack Dempseys etc. I love my SW tank. I do miss my FW days.
As soon as I have the time and space. I'll set up a new FW tank.

 

[smp]

Keeping any kind of tank is a lot like gardening.
If you think about it, nurturing life is what we are all doing. People can say they like the beauty, or the challenge but I think the primary human desire here is nurturing life and making things grow healthy and strong.
I live in a cold climate, my aquarium keeping gets pretty focused come winter, that's when my projects get underway. In the summer, I have bikes and I used to tend the garden at my parents house, I don't have a garden anymore though.
But yes, fish tanks are beautiful and challenging. They are a lot like gardening, I think both are borne out of the same desire. For me I know this is the case.

 

[Clayman]

Now that I have my SW I am selling my 80 gallon FW community tank to my brother, BUT I will keep my 33 gallon Crayfish tank it is in my bedroom anyway.

 

[Pandora]

Loaches... checkered or dwarf? I'm a fan of Kuhli's myself

 

[blange3]

Clown loaches are my favorite!

Why I started with fresh? Because back in the day that's all that there was! I moved to salt early 70's for the challenge. I came late to reefs but it is my current focus.

I go back to the days when Exotic Aquarium Fishes by William T Innes was the only book, and lived through the subsequent years where mentioning Dr. Innes and Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod in the same sentence brought the kind of reactions that close threads down around here!

 

[Cutiewitbooty]

I started with FW a long time ago, i can't even remember not having my own tank in my room. Right before i got into SW I was breeding oscars, african cichlids, i also have 4 pirahnas. Never got into plants though. I like SW sooo much better now, it makes FW just seem boring. When i had my 46 gal SW set up i decied to set up my 37 gal into a FW, i was all excite, but once i got it set up i lost intrest really fast, so i guess i'll stick with my SW.

 

[LukFox]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6582397#post6582397 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Wiskey
What kind of loaches are those? I don't think I have seen them before. Thanks,
Whiskey

Pandora is right, they're drawf chain loaches (botia sidthimunki) . Their chain patterns have significantly filled out since that picture was taken (looking like the large one in the back in that photo), but they're just so hard to get a clear picture of!

Cute weather loaches too! Those were one of my very first fish - I love 'em!

 

[bhdmc]

Even those I do not currently have any FW tanks, I still enjoy reading about them , looking at them at a friend 's house, at the LFS, or at the Major Aquariums around the world. I thinks they are as cool as SW.

 

[robmacy]

I like saltwater better. more colors! even though it is more $$$

 

[old salty]

I enjoy both. Reefkeeping is more involved with keeping animals while my FW tank is keeping plants. Very different approaches, but equally satisfying. My interest in planted FW tanks has really gone up since I started with the reef. Here is a quick pick:

 

[zemuron114]

i've done turtle tanks since i was 5 years old. Turtles were my first love lol they will always have a piece of my heart!!! :-D

 

[Cutiewitbooty]

that planted tank is really nice, sweet tank

 

[old salty]

Thank you!!

 

[javajaws]

Yeah, nice tank old salty. Mine always seems to get that "overgrown" look. Yours looks "just right".

BTW, Have you thought about an external CO2 reactor?