| are beginner salt water fishes you can choose for | | | | Clownfish |
| your salt water aquarium. This would include damsels, | | | | Clown fishes are like damsels, they are also quite |
| mollies, clownfish, tangs, and triggerfish among others. | | | | tough. However, clown fishes find it hard to adapt to |
| Setting up your own salt water tank can encounter | | | | a new tank. Clowns are defensive but not |
| mistakes, especially if it’s your first time to | | | | aggressive, except with other clown fishes. They |
| make one. You better start with a few inexpensive | | | | usually do well without an anemone. This is good |
| fishes in order to save money. Many marine fishes | | | | because anemones are much harder to maintain. It |
| can be found in the wild rather than being raised in | | | | needs very clean water and superior lighting. Every |
| captivity. | | | | species of clownfish wants a particular species of |
| Here are some of the best beginner salt water | | | | anemone. Other clowns are raised in captivity. |
| fishes: | | | | Surgeonfish |
| Damsels | | | | A Surgeonfish is quite adaptable. When your tanks |
| These are the best beginner fishes for marine tanks. | | | | start to have algae, surgeon fishes are best to be |
| Damsels are: | | | | placed there. They are algae-eaters. Hence, Tangs |
| - Strong | | | | must be fed with green leaves if there are no algae |
| - it can withstand even the worst water condition | | | | growing in the tank. |
| - not picky eaters | | | | Triggerfish or Lionfish |
| - easy on the pocket | | | | If you want a tank for large aggressive fish, start |
| The weakness of the Damsel is that they are | | | | with a trigger or lionfish. They are adaptable. |
| aggressive. If you put more inside the tank, there will | | | | However, lion fishes are expensive. They should be |
| be a lot of fighting. It is excellent to use damsels in | | | | fed plenty of shell fish because they are carnivorous. |
| breaking into a new tank. You can still keep the | | | | Many people feed lion feeders with goldfish. Feeding |
| damsel if you want to keep other additional | | | | them with goldfish is not good because they are |
| aggressive fishes. If you want to keep a delicate fish, | | | | freshwater fish. Do not give the same nutrition that a |
| take the damsel back to the pet shop once your | | | | saltwater fish has. Feeding saltwater fish with |
| tank is ready for more fishes. | | | | freshwater food can cause premature liver failure. |
| Some damsels are not aggressive as compared to | | | | Your fish will die early. |
| the blue damsel and yellow tailed damsels. The three | | | | Blennies or Gobies |
| domino and striped damsels are the more aggressive | | | | Blennies or Gobies are small fishes that are adaptable |
| ones. | | | | and not aggressive. Some of them demonstrate |
| Mollies | | | | many personalities but they usually get lost in a big |
| Other people want to break-in their tanks with | | | | tank. |
| mollies. Mollies are adaptable to salt water. Hence, this | | | | These are also a good addition to a tank in order to |
| can work to your advantage if you start with cheap | | | | control algae. Some of these fishes are fed by sifting |
| fishes. It is also essential to maintain the salinity and | | | | through the substance. They will be very hard to |
| pH on these not so sensitive fishes. Mollies are raised | | | | maintain and fed in a fish-only tank. |
| and bred in captivity. | | | | Angels and Butterflies |
| You can easily adapt mollies to salt water. This can | | | | These fishes must not be considered when buying |
| be done by dripping saltwater into the bag for 6 | | | | from a pet shop. They are all delicate and difficult fish |
| – 8 hours. When the bag gets full, remove | | | | to maintain. Butterflies have specific diets which can |
| excess water slowly. Through gradual increasing of | | | | make them very hard to be raised in captivity. Bat |
| salinity it can give the mollies time to adapt to their | | | | fishes must also be avoided. |
| environment. | | | | |