The choice of marine aquarium or reef aquarium you plan to set up often begins with the choice of saltwater fish species you would like to keep in it. Besides personal preferences, there are many other important issues to be taken into consideration:

Each marine fish's adult size, behaviour, water preferences, feeding habits, compatibility with other saltwater species and, in modern fish keeping, environmental awareness is extremely important.

My journey with saltwater tanks started in the spring of 1986 with a 75gal. Fish tank and this hobby has gone wild on me since then! I set up my first tank with the mindset that I'd keep things simple in order to keep the cost down. A Skimmer of course, but no metal halides, no fancy power heads or reactors and of course no stonis. I'd stay with mostly softies and anemones. No live rock or live sand, that knew at that time (mid 80’s) still nobody. Industrially mixed sea salt, ready to use like today? That simply did not exist in Germany in the mid 80’s. At this time we had to learn so much and we did it.

Today I have too many tanks, three 68gal. “Nano”, one 255 gal. Fish tank (almost exclusively with aggressive fish) and my current 115gal. Reef tank, first set up in Nov. 2004 which I would like to present here on my mobile website. Information about all my other tanks you will find on my Homepage (http://www.reefdreams.de) !