I might buy my bosses 75g bow front tank. Its set up right now as a SW tank, but honestly its kind of nasty. there are 2 fish in there and a ton of star fish and other little critters. But he does nothing to maintain it. Whenever the water evaporates he just gets a bucket and fills it up and every now and then feeds the fish some flakes.
Now given, if i buy the tank I dont know if i want to keep it SW or convert it to a FW Cichlid tank with rock structures.
I guess It all depends on how much harder maintaining a SW tank is than a FW. I have read about it quite a bit, and it seems that once you get past the inital setting up and the water/salt right, its just as easy if not easier then a FW tank. a few gravel vacs here and there and topping off the tank when the water evaporates. Only thing is, I know what can go wrong with a FW tank as far as algae and other probs go and I know now how to fix them for the most part. I am still having a BBA prob in my 29g tank that just wont go away.
However, how hard is it to keep a 75g SW tank pristine and almost perfect. no algae, no unwanted growths, etc etc. I basically want it to be an awsome show "like" tank that ppl with gaulk over when they come into my apartment!!!
( i know keep dreaming)
Another thing pushing me away from SW is the price of the fish and that all the LFS's around here dont offer any type of garauntee on SW fish, if it dies that night then ur screwed. On FW fish they have a 3-5 day guarantee. Oh well.........
Please let me know what yall think I should do...... thanks....
