Beginner Salt Water Fish Varieties For Your First Saltwater Aquarium

by Jayesh Bagde

There are beginner salt water fishes you can choose for your salt water aquarium. This would include damsels, mollies, clownfish, tangs, and triggerfish among others.

Setting up your own salt water tank can encounter mistakes, especially if it's your first time to make one. You better start with a few inexpensive fishes in order to save money. Many marine fishes can be found in the wild rather than being raised in captivity.

Here are some of the best beginner salt water fishes: Damsels These are the best beginner fishes for marine tanks. Damsels are: - Strong - it can withstand even the worst water condition - not picky eaters - easy on the pocket

The weakness of the Damsel is that they are aggressive. If you put more inside the tank, there will be a lot of fighting. It is excellent to use damsels in breaking into a new tank. You can still keep the damsel if you want to keep other additional aggressive fishes. If you want to keep a delicate fish, take the damsel back to the pet shop once your tank is ready for more fishes.

Some damsels are not aggressive as compared to the blue damsel and yellow tailed damsels. The three domino and striped damsels are the more aggressive ones.

Mollies Other people want to break-in their tanks with mollies. Mollies are adaptable to salt water. Hence, this can work to your advantage if you start with cheap fishes. It is also essential to maintain the salinity and pH on these not so sensitive fishes. Mollies are raised and bred in captivity.

You can easily adapt mollies to salt water. This can be done by dripping saltwater into the bag for 6 - 8 hours. When the bag gets full, remove excess water slowly. Through gradual increasing of salinity it can give the mollies time to adapt to their environment. Clownfish Clown fishes are like damsels, they are also quite tough. However, clown fishes find it hard to adapt to a new tank. Clowns are defensive but not aggressive, except with other clown fishes. They usually do well without an anemone. This is good because anemones are much harder to maintain. It needs very clean water and superior lighting. Every species of clownfish wants a particular species of anemone. Other clowns are raised in captivity.

Surgeonfish A Surgeonfish is quite adaptable. When your tanks start to have algae, surgeon fishes are best to be placed there. They are algae-eaters. Hence, Tangs must be fed with green leaves if there are no algae growing in the tank.

Triggerfish or Lionfish If you want a tank for large aggressive fish, start with a trigger or lionfish. They are adaptable. However, lion fishes are expensive. They should be fed plenty of shell fish because they are carnivorous.

Many people feed lion feeders with goldfish. Feeding them with goldfish is not good because they are freshwater fish. Do not give the same nutrition that a saltwater fish has. Feeding saltwater fish with freshwater food can cause premature liver failure. Your fish will die early.

Blennies or Gobies Blennies or Gobies are small fishes that are adaptable and not aggressive. Some of them demonstrate many personalities but they usually get lost in a big tank.

These are also a good addition to a tank in order to control algae. Some of these fishes are fed by sifting through the substance. They will be very hard to maintain and fed in a fish-only tank.

Angels and Butterflies These fishes must not be considered when buying from a pet shop. They are all delicate and difficult fish to maintain. Butterflies have specific diets which can make them very hard to be raised in captivity. Bat fishes must also be avoided.

Fishes to Avoid - All types of angelfish - All types of butterfly fish - Pipefish - Seahorses - Blue Ribbon Eels - Long-nosed Filefish - Stonefish and - Moorish Idols - Mandarin fish (must be avoided in non-reef tanks)

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