Marine Fish & Invertebrate Keeping, tips and tricks
Marine fish and animals ARE more sensitive to water conditions than their freshwater cousins. Here, in simple terms is why.
It can be a technophiles wildest dream come true or a technophobes nightmare but if you're patient, get to grips with some basic filtration and water maintenance it can be so amazing.
In a freshwater habitat things change. If your river or pool dries up, chemicals become more concentrated. When it rains or floods again, they dilute. If you are in a pond and a dead animal falls in, the water becomes at least slightly polluted and you can't escape.
You adapt or die.
In the sea (there really is only one) rain has no effect at all on the chemical composition. If a dead cow drops in, although it may cause a localized problem for a short time, either you can swim away or tides and currents will carry out massive water changes in short order.
Life is stable.
It is maintaining this stability that is critical in keeping marine tanks.
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