Walter writes to me:

I just convinced my wife to buy a tank from the honeymoon ... we bought a giant starfish and coral white dead and some shells ... Qeste purchases were authorized to fulfill purchase of the tank ...
I was told that for my freshwater aquarium is not going well ... please give me some advice to put into the coral and the rest are at the beginning ... and I do not want to start a marine aquarium ... how can I do to adapt these things aquarium sweet?? .. is there any treatment?

Hello Walter, you're talking about dead animals, right? And furnishings such as a bottle of Coke, a quartz watch, a picture frame with photos, of course, the honeymoon? Or are plastic objects that resemble a starfish and a coral??
Why would it better to leave things where they are. The starfish , did not die by accident ... and then they harvest ... I do not know if I bend.
The coral and shells, but probably, have died alone, beached and later, for example
But where was left become coral sand. So nature needs of these animals, our house instead, NO, unless you are alive, we try to keep these, multiply them, we spread the love of animals, information, respect for nature, and so on.

The starfish, being a dead animal, I think that fouled the water, any water. Therefore be kept out of the future aquarium, if you want next door, but just does not make sense mettercela inside. The aquarium is made of fish and organisms LIVE, the rest is decor that tries to reproduce nature. In nature, a starfish and withers and dies remain standing there for ever!

The only type of freshwater aquarium that can hold a skeleton of coral is dedicated to African cichlids. They come in all sizes, are beautiful, colorful, interesting behavior and reproduction . So you will have no difficulty in travare more specific information on the Internet. I would not recommend you start with a salt water aquarium, marine, without previous experience with a tropical freshwater.

As always ... you are invited to buy first and foremost a book about the aquarium and its fish.