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Originally Posted by fishfingers
Lol I'm not making any friends am I. remember we are talking about a tank with LR, sofities and light! Basically all you would need to worry about is salinity, lighting levels and iodine to some extent.
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No fish? Surely begginers want to have "nemo" in their tank.
Ammonia/nitrate levels need to be monitered along with phosphates and other nutrients to prevent algae blooms. You dont need to have fish in the tank to have high nutrient levels. All that good stuff can come straight from the tap.
Also id like to point out that you just contradicted yourself a bit by saying this. Your saying that there is nothing to keeping Sw the way you just described it. It sounds like a FW tank just with some salt in the water.... in that case why even mention the given scenario? I mean you should be all for begginers keeping hard to keep species like certain pipefish, cephlapods, butterflyfish etc....
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I don't think freshwater is a good learning step to get when you get saltwater coz almost everything is looked upon from a different perspective.
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And what perspective is that? I myself dont see it in any different perspective than i do my reeftank.
Id also like to say that your theoretical thinking (which is appreciated) doesnt agree with reality. The reality is that there have been countless people who jump into SW and end up having to tear down their tanks. Go to craigslist.org.. where do you think the deals on SW equipment and livestock are comming? Not from the experienced reefer who wants to give out deals at his own expense, but by those people who have failed. Its not an easy hobby at the begginer level and im sure hundreds of people can testify.