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What's the difference between a marine and tropical tank?
Marine is a salt water tank, cold water and need different equipment.
Tropical is warm non-salt water, and you dont need anything special other than a heater and filter.
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alan-g-w
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Sound, cheers.
What sort of set up would red bellied piranhas need?
And Ste W, what sort of fish are you going for?
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Tropical, they'll also need a decent sized (3ft length min) within a year as will hit 6-8" very quickly.
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Glad that it's the easier setup then.
Doing my room up soon and I've been looking at getting a tropical type of animal, was looking at snakes as well. But figured piranhas might be more entertaining 
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Ive kept Piranha for years, all sorts of different kinds, so if you've any questions then feel free to ask.
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alan-g-w
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Nice one mate, will do.
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Simon
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salt water and freshwater
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quote:
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salt water and freshwater
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alan-g-w
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quote:
Originally posted by Simon
salt water and freshwater
Spring water and tap water.
Your turn.
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My marine tank crashed a few months ago, just started it up again today. Only got a 12G nano tank.
Got myself 5kg of live sand, and a single 4kg piece of live rock today, along with 50litres of salt water. came to over 80 quid!!! The rock was 60!
I forgot how expensive marine fish keeping is!!
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chloe16v
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marine tanks are not cold water cosmo  26c  i used 2 300watt heaters to heat my 8ft marine tank
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marine tanks are not cold water cosmo 26c i used 2 300watt heaters to heat my 8ft marine tank
26? Really?
Ah, always though marine were mainly cold water, certainly not that sort of temp.
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26-27c is the optimal temp if not running a cooler, other wise about 25c is normal, although they can run as low as 21c, it all really depends what fish or corals you have in the tank as some need it cooler than others 
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One minute, so why the fuck do you need a cooler when air temp is often less than 18?
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chloe16v
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in the summer months the water temp can sore well above 30c and with the metal halides it doesnt take much, the cooler keeps the tank at one temp so it doesnt get too warm, even a 1c change in temp over a short time period can corse catastrophic consiquences to both fish and corals
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Room temps in the UK rarely go above 26 tbh, even in summer.
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normal rooms dont have fishtanks with metal halides above them, the heat off the metal halides is far more than 26c,
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Cosmo
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pfft, shitty marine tanks.
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chloe16v
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better than any trops tank 
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and please try not to get upset because i know more about them than you its all down to experiance
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Cosmo
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Far from it.
Corals are boring, a decent planted tropical tank looks 100000x better than a marine.
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4ft marine tank
4ft planted trops tank
i know what i would rather have 
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