Home Aquarium

Someone gets cats, dogs or exotic birds, and you decide to buy a beautiful home aquarium. This hobby has many positive aspects. Transparent vessel with living inhabitants is a beautiful decoration of the interior. If it forms a stable ecosystem with a normal microclimate, then the content of fish does not turn into a serious test with a bunch of problems. On the contrary, your underwater world can autonomously unattended to exist during a period of small trips on business or leisure, which can not be said about other pets.

What do you need for a home aquarium?

1. First, we determine the optimal volume of the vessel. It is not necessary for yourself or your child to buy a tiny jar, hoping that there will be less trouble with it. Experience of many fans proved that it is easier to cope with an aquarium of 50 liters. The larger the volume, the less it is necessary to wash it and make a substitution of water in the tank.
2. It is better for beginners to purchase a home aquarium fully equipped with all the additional equipment for beginners. Usually it is easy to maintain and looks aesthetically pleasing. Otherwise, you will have to find a suitable filter, a compressor, a heater, a device for lighting. The filter capacity should be sufficient to pass through it an hour from 3 to 4 volumes of fluid that fits in the aquarium. The heater is needed to keep water within a constant temperature, usually it is set within 20 ° - 25 °, but much depends on the species of living organisms. The lamp will allow to extend the light day to 10 hours, its power should be not less than 0.5 W to 0.8 L - 1 L of water.
3. The marine aquarium looks attractive, but it's easier for beginners to care for freshwater fish, they are best suited for starting. You can take water by tap. Chlorine will evaporate after settling the liquid for several days in a separate container, and if the instruments show high rigidity, then it is removed by boiling.
4. Without soil, any aquarium at home looks poor. In addition, it is required not only for decorative purposes, gravel (up to 3 mm), as well as special ready-made compounds, are necessary as a nutrient medium and for supporting aquatic plants. It is desirable to pour the soil thickness from 3 cm to 5 cm, depending on the type of algae and fish.
5. At the front, the home aquarium is planted with smaller plants - Javanese moss, arrowhead, cryptocoryn, and other dwarf organisms. In the background, plant hornwort, fern, Elodie Canadian.
6. The most persistent and unpretentious creatures that can forgive beginners aquarists are guppies , swordsmen, cardinals, lalius, barbs .

We hope that our advice will help to properly launch a home aquarium, subject to all listed common rules. We wish you a lot of joy and exceptionally good impressions from your new passion.