| Starting a salt water aquarium is an exciting | | | | easy to maintain. These fish can reach about 6 inches |
| endeavor. You have the opportunity to create your | | | | in length so their size must be considered when |
| own marine environment that you can enjoy in your | | | | thinking about how many fish you wish to |
| own home. However, choosing to start an aquarium | | | | incorporate into your aquarium. |
| will require you to make quite a few important | | | | Triggerfish - Curious, brave, and lively are good ways |
| decisions. Questions like will you include "live rocks" | | | | to describe the triggerfish. These saltwater fish are a |
| into your ecosystem, what kind of filtration will you | | | | fixture in many saltwater aquariums. Their lively and |
| use, and how big will your saltwater aquarium be, | | | | curious nature provides the saltwater habitat with a |
| must all be considered. | | | | lot of action. The triggerfish gets it's name from a |
| However, one of the most exciting questions you | | | | spine on its dorsal fish that it raises as a form of |
| must ask yourself is what kind of fish will I include in | | | | protection. |
| my tank? Fish are the obvious highlight of the | | | | Dragonet - The dragonet is one of the sea's shy |
| saltwater aquarium and are quite an investment so | | | | creatures. Usually they a bottom dwellers where they |
| this is a list of the 5 best fish to purchase when | | | | easily retreat to burying itself in the sand when |
| starting an aquarium. | | | | nervous or aggravated. These beautifully colored fish |
| Surgeonfish - A surgeonfish is certainly one of the | | | | are not difficult to maintain, however they do not |
| first fish that you want to purchase when you start | | | | get along well with one another. So be sure that if |
| a saltwater aquarium. These fish are very active and | | | | you wish to purchase a dragonet, it will most likely be |
| add a great deal of life to your saltwater habitat. | | | | a solitary species in your saltwater aquarium. |
| They are easy to feed and maintain, which makes | | | | Clownfish - The clownfish is a brightly colored orange |
| them a clear choice for a fairly new saltwater | | | | fish with white stripes on its side. It is well known for |
| aquarium. Another wonderful characteristic about | | | | its ability to live among the tentacles of the anemone |
| these fish is that they do not bother coral so there is | | | | without being harmed. These fish are hardy, easy to |
| no need to worry about putting them into a FOWLR | | | | maintain, and have a long life expectancy. However, if |
| (fish only with live rocks) saltwater aquarium. | | | | you wish to include them in a saltwater aquarium with |
| Surgeonfish are also beautifully colored so you are | | | | an anemone, you will not want to include a triggerfish. |
| not trading the ascetics of the fish for its resilience. | | | | In a natural environment the triggerfish feeds on the |
| Basslet - These beautifully colored fish are a perfect | | | | anemone so be mindful of the environment you wish |
| choice for the beginning saltwater aquarist. Not only | | | | to design when choosing fish. |
| are they brilliant in color, but they are very active and | | | | |