anyone on R2R do FW & SW?

[Devaji]

just curious if we have any members that do and enjoy both the salty side and fresh water tanks?
thinking about it real hard...

 

[BringingThatDottyback]

I keep both, I love the simplicity of a low tech planted tank compared to salt.

 

[CasperOe]

Yeah, we keep both as well! 4 reef and to FW. Missus keeps a FW tank just for electric blue acaras.. Beautiful fish!

 

[Samz]

We have both as well. Just 1 small reef tank (for now) and 8 freshwater tanks. I can't even imagine not having both, and the approach is so different between freshwater and saltwater that to me it's like 2 different hobbies. Brackish tanks can be pretty fun, too.

 

[00W]

2 fresh, 2 salt here.

 

[Rusty_L_Shackleford]

My wife and I have a 32g biocube reed, a 34g red sea reef, a 29g planted tank, and a 10g saltwater "utility tank" that I use to quarantine dish and just tinker with for various projects. The biocube and planted tank are my "wifes" tanks. Meaning she picks out livestock and feeds them and I do the maintenance. But hey I'm not about to argue against more tanks. So we have his and hers reefs on either side of the TV in the living room and we have the planted tank in the bedroom. I love having a tank in the bedroom, and it is nice having one tank that is super low maintenance. Compared to my reefs I feel like I never have to mess with it. The lights are on a timer and it had an auto-feeder for flake food. I supplement the feeding, but if get busy or forget it doesn't really matter. I never even have to wipe algae off the glass. I trim the plants when it gets a little overgrown, i rinse out the filter pad when I remember, and top off when it gets low. It gets 5g waterchange whenever I'm feeling froggy on my day off a couple times a month.

Stock list:

10 cardinal tetras
3 blue danios
3 zebra danios
Pair dwarf neon rainbows
3 juli cories
3 salt and pepper cories
1 golden yoyo loach
Pair kribensis
3 platies (plus several fry)
2 mystery snails
2 Otto cats
Unknown number of ghost shrimp and blue neocardinia shrimp

The kribs, snails, platies, and shrimp are all actively breeding. The kribs have eggs right now actually.

 

[Devaji]

nice to know there are FW and SW keepers on here.

I am really thinking of turning my new IM 200 gal peninsula in to a low tech planted tank with mostly Epiphytes lots of them on drift wood.

post pics of your tanks guys. i want to see em. I need FW mentors too

 

[jimfish98]

I have kept both. Up until two months ago I had two FW systems and a SW system. Converted a FW back to SW, so just down to one FW system. It is a big one though.....2000g formal Koi pond. Had to close it down and sell it all off two years ago and then got to upgrade it and reopen it last fall. New fish are still small (12-20 inches) but another year and they should all be 2-3ft and the pond will look a bit fuller.

 

[Devaji]

I have kept both. Up until two months ago I had two FW systems and a SW system. Converted a FW back to SW, so just down to one FW system. It is a big one though.....2000g formal Koi pond. Had to close it down and sell it all off two years ago and then got to upgrade it and reopen it last fall. New fish are still small (12-20 inches) but another year and they should all be 2-3ft and the pond will look a bit fuller.

cool never even thought about Koi pond. maybe some day if I live in a warmer place. they would be koi siccles around here.

 

[steveschuerger]

I do both, but changing my discus tank over to reef due to need to consolidate tanks. Afterwards will still have the 90 and 22 gallon as reefs and 16 gallon as pea puffer fresh

 

[NCsalt]

Yes

I have a Scarlet Badis species only Fluval Betta pico.

He loves his live baby brine shrimp.

 

[jimfish98]

cool never even thought about Koi pond. maybe some day if I live in a warmer place. they would be koi siccles around here.

Knew a family north of you in Billings Montana in koi forums that had ponds that survived. Key is depth and then temp winter structure with clear plastic. The depth with air will prevent freezing while the structure creates a greenhouse effect. In their case, temps would be miserable outside but air temp in the structure in the 50's and water in the mid 40's. Other folks just over winterized them in into temp ponds in their garage or basement. There are options.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Three salt and three fresh. Fresh are American cichlids, two fowlr and a reef.

 

[Waters]

I currently have 1 fresh and 1 salt.....have kept many freshwater tanks while keeping reef tanks though.

 

[Aquariumaddictuk]

both FW & Salt.im closing down one discus tank shortly & moving into my planted setup.the 800 litre water changes per week are no fun in the English winter so if I can halve that I'll be happy

 

[MoshJosh]

Have kept FW in the past and would love to again in the future!

 

[Alexraptor]

It all started in FW, then i started dabbling in SW, and as of a couple of years ago it's now fully SW.

Funny thing is, I find SW infinitely easier than FW. Easier to keep nutrients under control... maybe a bit too easy if my recent dino troubles are any indication.

 

[Gill the 3rd]

I started in fresh water planted tanks like many others did. Every time I went to the fish store I would see the saltwater fish/corals and think how cool they are. I now have 1 saltwater tank and 3 freshwater. The saltwater tank is 90% of my total maintenance between all the tanks lol.

 

[SaltyCabbage]

Yup! I used to keep quite a few fw tanks with mainly South American fish but moving houses brought out epistylis in my SA cichlids and wiped everything out within two weeks, watching my 7yr severum basically melt alive was devastating.

I’ve since downsized to a 125g with a pair of aequidens diadema and a 10g with some ember tetras and a betta.

Sadly don’t have many pictures of the 125g or the old fish room, though I did find some!

 

[taahrii]

Yeah, we keep both as well! 4 reef and to FW. Missus keeps a FW tank just for electric blue acaras.. Beautiful fish!

I just ordered a pair of electric blue acaras for my 75. They should be to my lfs next weekb I got the tank after seeing the ELA's for the first time. Such pretty fish