Reef Tank and Fish Tank: What’s the Difference ?
There are many different ways you can set up a saltwater aquarium depending on what you would like to keep and what interests you most in the hobby. Accordingly hobbyists tend to put names on the different types of aquariums that can be set up because they have similar general requirements depending on the classification of tank.
FishOnly Tank
A FishOnly Tank is a tank that is dedicated to keeping fish, without any sort of corals, anemones or clams. They can contain some mobile invertebrates mainly for helping keep the tank clean. This set up is easier toset up and less costly then a reef tank. This type of tank can be classified into two different areas as ell, fish only or fish only with live rock.
Reef Aquarium
A Reef Aquarium contains a lot of life with the main focus being corals or anemones. This type of system generally contains a huge variety of species that require an extremely specialized setup. The needs of the corals or anemones take priority where as fish in these tanks are considered secondary. Although we generally classify all tanks with corals in it as a reef tank, there are still different types ofreef tanks such as softy, LPS (large polyp stony) and SPS (small polyp stony) tanks. These three tanks also have different requirements as well.
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