Someone talk some sense into me!!!

+1 to everyone that says freshwater arent as exciting.

I have had a 2ft freshwater for a while before I moved into my first 55g marine. My marine only has 4 fish, and already leaves the freshwater fish for dead.

Im not going to abandon my freshwater fish, but if I had gone marine first I definately wouldnt have gone back.

 

Wow! Thanks everyone! Lots of great thoughts!! Maxi mini sounds awesome! Can't drill, and thx for the freshwater negatory

 

I'm thinking a seahorse planted tank and keep my CPR hob fuge for seahorse food fuge

 

Very cool idea It'll basically take care of itself for the most part.

 

Oh yeah THAT'S cheap :

 

If he has enough time (and money, of course ) then why not? You could also save some money by raising some brine or mysis shrimp.

 

Yeah! Blows the cheap out of the water but a seahorse tank wouldn't be too bad on that level! I have all the equipment! Oh well for cheap!

 

+1 to a seahorse tank.

I have another small 2ft tank thats sitting around which will be converted to a sea horse and nano reef tank .

Good luck with yours

 

depending on what Cichlids your talking they more than likely will tear up any plants, Africans more than likely would tear them up more than CA Chiclids would, I guess

 

Seahorse tanks are absolutely not cheap. A new tank will never feed an adult seahorse, an old one wouldn't even do it, IME. The size of a CPR fuge will never sustain them. It's a great thing to have, as it will provide lovely little snacks, but that's about it. We had a macro pod haven. He cleaned it out in 4 days. They will absolutely gorge themselves. They don't have real stomachs so they will sit there and eat and eat and eat and..... you get the point.