very nice, i'd love to have a lil saltwater tank someday, just large freshwater ones fer now

i used to have freshwater...BORING
reef setups are freaken sweet, so full of life, i have tiny little abalonies, astria starfish, brittle starfish, snails, seabugs, medusa worms, tiny feather duster worms, tiny filtering clams, 3 kinds of sea sponges, and all those are just the hitchhickers that came with the live rock! (collected from the sea or aquacultured to be full of detoxify bacteria)
i have fancy shrimps, 5 kinds of hermit crabs, all kinds of snails, then there is the corals, and clams and anemones and feather duster worms and scallops.

the diversity of life in a reef tank beats freshwater hands down.
it costs more (the lights mostly, metal halide is the best and i have it on this tank but the bulb alone on this tank is $80) but it's worth it and overall the ammount of care seems the same if not a little easier (the more live rock you can cram in the tank the better as it is natural filtration)

i mainly want some so can have a snowflake eel, they're awesome

i know some one who got one for free once, it was unknowingly hiding in the live rock they purchased.

wow, lucky

Whoa, that is a awesome tank!

nanocubes are difficult for beginners but they appeal so much to me!
im such a noob and i think id screw up starting with a large tank, so im sure id blow up a nanocube

i find nanos easier and they are MUCH CHEEPER to set up and maintain and easier to tend to.
you are supposed to do a small 20%ish water change every 2 weeks (i just do a big one once a month) well on a 100 gallon tank that is 20 gallons, on this tank its a lemonaid pitcher.
i started with 30 gallons and i went up to 75 then went back down to a 12 and 20 and i like my 2 smaller tanks better, i can do a large water change with a 5 gallon bucket, before i filled a rubbermaid 30 gallon bin.

take my advice and get either a nano cube or aquapod, they are both plug-and-paly systems that are fully set up and ready to put stuff in, and the filter system is built into the back of the tank itself seperated by a back pannel so there is nothing hanging on the back that can drip.
even better is to get an up and running system that was set up by some one else, chances are you can get it cheeper than starting from scratch and you know everything work right (assuming it looks good when you got it and is not full of bare rocks covered in green crap) and you just need to do exactly as the previous owner did (ask what they did to care for it) i got this system used, empty, but from the pictures of when it was up and running i knew it was a great set up

I think from what I read while I was at work that it's usually hard to keep all of them alive and happy when you have such a small tank for saltwater. But that's only if I'm remembering right. ^^;

i read that too, but i find them easier.

That and they really are nice when you think about it. Much easier than getting a huge tank to put salt water in it.

I love those little things.

We had this particular model on display, set up to show off some SW plants, and eventually, I acclimated some mollies to sell as cheap "cycling" fish for SW tanks. There were two of them, actually. Beautiful things. We were going to showcase a (very young) snowflake moray eel in one of them, but the little shit kept getting back in the filter. I had to rescue him like 3 times before we moved him to a regular SW tank, soon after which he holed up in his lovely piece of live rock and didn't come out (or eat) for a week.

He lost Fiji rock privileges after that.

I miss that little guy, he has such personality. He eventually found a home with a regular customer.

Supercool!

its beautiful beastcub. i wish my 125 saltwater looked half that good but i guess thats what happens when you have a tight budget and im more into fish than corals

that is another nice thing about nanos...they are easy to fill with corals

yeah true but i wants lots of pretty fishes lol

yah

when i downgraded from a 75 to a 23 and a 12 i had to part with some of my fish...which sucked as i liked them all.

Tis beautiful.... Wait *spots fish* OMG It Is A Clown Fish! Tell a joke!

I'm so bored with my freshwater tank. I really want a saltwater tank. After my summer at the aquarium, my fresh tank seemed even more boring. I want a 10-12 gallon with some live rock and a peacock mantis shrimp. I will name him Smacky and feed him snails.

OO-oo-oo!!! I found Nemo!! =D lol... I have 3 fresh water tanks in my home most filled with some form of chilid, but I hope to one day get a salt water tank ^.^

Very nice! I'm setting up a 5.5 gallon nano on my computer desk. One day I plan to have clms as well. I just need to save up enough money for the light.