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i want to purchase a few fish, clown fish, 2 tangs, and a puffer fish, how big does the aquarium nee2007-11-24 23:36:51

and what all do i need to start the salt water aquarium, thanks, also where can i find the cheapest starter kit

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A small tang will grow up to 7 inches and require a minimum of 75 gallons for swimming, a large on grows to 1.5 feet and needs 150 gallons. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scate.

Clown fish are a little easier, they would easily fit in as little as 10 gallons since they never swim far from their home http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scate.

Puffer fish brow from 4 inches to 1.5 feet depending on the type and require anywhere from 30 to 100 gallons. They are also not reef-save so you could only keep them in a fish-only tank.

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If you were interested in setting up a fish-only with live rock tank, that is about 100 gallons, you would need florescent lighting, heater, skimmer, three-stage filter (1000gph), hydrometer, marine test kit, wave-maker, 50 pounds of live rock, enough substrate to put a two inch base, reverse-osmosis water amd salt.

Fill your tank with salt water (you can mix it in the tank for the first time, but after that it has to be mixed in advance) to a specific gravity of around 1.022, get all the equipment running and wait for the temp to be right (75)

Add the live rock and start testing the water regularly. You will start getting blooms of beneficial bacteria (couldy water), and red and green slime. When the amonia, nitrite and nitrate levels have stopped spiking (takes weeks) you can start adding your clean up crew (probably 50 snails, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 sand-sifter starfish and a dozen hermit crabs). After a couple of weeks you can start adding fish. Be careful when selecting them because you cannot medicate you tank. Replace evaporated water with just water and do weekly water changes of at least twenty gallons of pre-mixed and well-aerated salt water.

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have you been to a pet store and asked these questions, yet?

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As big as it needs to fit them all comfortably.

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I am afraid there are no CHEAP starter kits, specially for salty ones, so expect to pay a high price.

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This is an expensive outing - salt water fish need a lot more room than freshwater. I would guess what you are talking about here, to do it successfully you are going to need several hundred dollars. Just the fish you are talking about here will run you around $200-300.

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I think it would be great if you took half of a room and mad it an aquarium. Then the fish could have almost all the freedom they could want. And with only those few fish, you may never have to clean it.