Aquarium?

Aquaristics can be a wonderful hobby – but this is not as easy as it looks and some starters imagine it.

It’d be very important if you don’t mind. 1 or 2 books “Aquaristics for Beginners” would thoroughly read through.

To make an AQ such a beautiful eye-catcher and a suitable habitat for fish, it needs more than to set up an AQ, water pure, plants and animals pure. An AQ is a highly sensitive biological system in which many factors are dependent on each other, must be mutually consistent.

Otherwise, you quickly have a green, nasty broth with decaying plants, an algae plague and sick and dying fish.

It is very important that a new AQ at least. 3 weeks have to enter (EXCE animals!) – rather it is not possible that the important useful bacteria are formed, which convert the highly toxic substances into non-toxic plant food.

It takes about 1 week until a water pollution takes place. Then the nitrosomonas form, which oxidize ammonia (toxic) in nitrite – this also takes about 1 week. And only when the nitrite rises high (also highly toxic for fish), then the nitrobacters are formed which convert this nitrite into nitrate (= nontoxic plant food).

Then it is urgent to find out which values the water comes from the line – total hardness, carbonate hardness, PH value. Because according to these values (and of course the size of the aquarium), you have to select the possible fish. And according to this is also the necessary facility. Some fish need a sand bottom, others need a strong planting or a lot of free swimming space, some need wood and/or caves….

Of course, it is not possible to combine all types of fish with each other, some of which can only be considered a couple, others need a larger group.

The selection of the aquarium and the entire technology is very important. The low-priced complete sets are usually also only “priced” – the filters do nothing, the lighting does not. And that’s how you can try, it’ll never be a beautiful, working aquarium.

If the place and the money has, it should start at least with an 80 cm AQ (100 l) – such an aquarium forgives the first care error better than a usual 60 cm AQ (54 l).

ALL this aquarium you NOT get for the planned 100 euros – because the ground floor, decoration, plants and and and usually cost more than the AQ itself.

Therefore, my good advice: Just look at the many regional classified portals – there aquariums are delivered for mostly little money without end. But please don’t buy one that’s still filled – so you only get the biggest problems. Buy one that is empty and clean and has all the required technology.

So much information you need to get. And a lot of time you need to work on the subject responsibly.