These Special
Pet Fish Talk Interviews feature
Evan from Colorado, who was 13-years old
at the time this show was recorded. Of
course, everyday Evan gets a day old and
is no longer 13. During this interview
he talks with Tom and Nevin about
starting the
saltwater aquarium, shown below.
Here's a picture,
taken in San Diego during a
vacation, of Evan from
Colorado, who talks about
Starting a Saltwater
Aquarium in this series of
Pet Fish Talk Interviews.
Click
here now to hear all
three interviews, titled "Saltwater Equipment",
"Saltwater
Fish", and "Saltwater Tips"
plus some additional corrections and
comments. The
total listening time is about 2 hours
and 20 minutes.
Here's Evan's 20-gallon
nano-reef saltwater
aquarium just after he
set it up. Evan discusses
many important details about
Starting a Saltwater
Aquarium, during this Special
Pet Fish Talk Interview.
Part
1. Saltwater Equipment
Click
here now to hear the first interview,
which is about 45-minutes long, and
discusses the equipment you'll need to
start a new Saltwater Aquarium. Here
is a list of the topics discussed during
this interview.
1.
Aquarium. Glass or Acrylic. 20 to 30
gallons. 2. Heater. 5-watts
per gallon. Not Titanium. 3. Power Head. Circulates
water. Sweeper nozzle. 4. UV Sterilizer.
Emperor Aquatics. Turbo Twist. 5. Media. Sand. Cultured?
Rinse well before adding. 6 Marine Mix
Salts. R/O Water. 7. Hydrometer. Range:
1.022 to 1.026. 8. pH Meter. pH Strips.
Range: 8.0 to 8.4. 9. Thermometer. Digital.
Range 78 to 82 degrees F. 10. Filter. BIO-Wheel. Small Penguin.
11. Protein Skimmer. Product brands.
StressCoat. 12. Refugiums. Chaeto Plants.
Compact Florescent Lights. 13. Evan promises to do a
second
show.
Click
here
to go a page in AquariumFish.net with a
list of Saltwater Aquarium Equipment.
Part
2. Saltwater Fish
Click
here now to hear the second interview,
which is about 35-minutes long.
Here is a list of the topics discussed
during this interview.
1.
More Equipment. Swing Arm Hydrometer.
Refractometer. 2. Clown Fish, Chromis,
Sergeant Majors. 3. Aquarium Stands.
4. Live Rock and Base
Rock. 5. Everything labeled
for Saltwater Aquariums. 6. Add a piece of
raw unseasoned shrimp. 7. Run aquarium for
a few days. 8. Add Live Rock and
Base Rock. 9. Wait two weeks.
9. Damsel Fish good
first fish but aggressive. 10. Evan prefers one Chromis as
a first fish. 11. Wait two weeks then add Clown
Fish. 12. Add least aggressive fish
first. 13. How to make Baking Soda Juice
to keep pH up. 14. Neon Gobies will pick parasites
off other fish. 15. Dwarf Angels. Fire Fish. Blennies.
16. Evan's fish all eat Dry Food.
17. Aiptasia Anemones. 18. A Saltwater Aquarium is more complex than freshwater.
18. And more expensive too.
19. Huge variety of livestock
for Saltwater Aquariums. 20. Evan loves his 6-Line Wrasse.
21. Evan promises to do a third
show.
Click
here to go a page in AquariumFish.net
with a list of Saltwater Fish for Aquariums.
Here's a another
picture of Evan's Saltwater
Aquarium a few months later,
when the live rock has been
covered with living
organisms that greatly
benefit all Saltwater
Aquariums.
Part
3. Saltwater Tips
Click
here now to hear the third interview,
which is about 30-minutes long and
contains lots of tips about Starting a
New Saltwater Aquarium.
Here is a list of the topics discussed
during this interview.
1.
One of Evan's fish jumped out of his
Nano-Reef Aquarium. 2. Making a special
cover for your aquarium. 3. Use sand and not
crushed coral in a Marine Aquarium.
4. Tom recalls
comments by Dr. Rofen's about
Nitrate. 5. Live Rock, Base
Rock. Don't break the bottom of the
tank! 6. Review of good
fish for first saltwater aquariums.
7. Fish not to buy,
when you're getting started. 8. Evan recommends
a 20 to 30-gallon Nano-Reef Aquarium.
9. Butterfly, Saltwater
Angelfish, Lionfish, and Trigger Fish.
10. Squirrel Fish. 11. More about food and feeding
saltwater fish. 12. Cleaner Crew: Snails and Blue
Leg Hermit Crabs. 13. Evan really enjoys his 20-gallon
Nano-Reef Aquarium. 14. Stuff like coralline algae
is growing and multiplying. 15. Evan offers to come back
and answer your questions.
Part 4.
Questions and Comments Click
here now to hear about 31-minutes
more, which includes corrections about
introducing new fish and about using
titanium aquarium heaters, plus
discussions
about buying, transporting, and
acclimating new fish and invertebrates,
about adding a protein skimmer to an
aquarium with an Eclipse Hood, and about
reducing nitrates in aquarium water with
Amquel+.
Evan encourages listeners to send him
question at the email address or his
Instant Message Service.
More Questions?
Click
Or send a question directly to Evan
at
SWFishquestions@aim.com about
Starting a Saltwater Aquarium. Be sure
that your email to Evan contains a
few words in the subject about
Saltwater Aquariums or Saltwater
Fish.
You can also contact Evan at his AOL
Instant Messenger Name: Vanmo92.
We love Evan's shows on
Saltwater. I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions when I
actually try it.
-George from MA.
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