A beautiful aquarium brings aesthetic pleasure and decorates the house. It is not easy to design and start an aquarium, it is necessary to approach it responsibly. After all, a balanced ecosystem must be established in the home pond. If you know how to properly start the aquarium for the first time, and without hurrying to follow all the recommendations, then anyone can make a beautiful and healthy living place at home.
How to start a new aquarium?
Before starting the aquarium from scratch, you need to purchase: ground, backlight , heater, filter (external or internal), aerator, snags and stones.
It is important to determine which fish and plants one would like to have, to ascertain the conditions for their maintenance, and to specify whether they are compatible with each other.
The aquarium must be washed without the use of chemicals. The soil must be thoroughly cleaned before filling it in a vessel - it can be left under running water for a couple of hours.
The aquarium must be installed in the chosen location, only not in a draft and not under direct sunlight. Further, it is possible to distribute the soil 5-8 cm thick all over the bottom. After laying the soil to place driftwood and stones in the aquarium - they will become elements of decor.
After this, you should fill the vessel with water, you can even pour water from the tap. After filling the aquarium, you can install a filter, aeration, lighting and heating in it. Now you need to turn on all equipment (except light) and leave the water to boil so for a few days. At this time, bacteria, algae begin to multiply in it, the water can become cloudy. But to touch the aquarium at this time is not necessary - it creates its own microclimate and the dregs itself will pass.
On the fourth day, usually plant the first plant - nasas, hornfels, riccia, hygrophil. On the fourteenth day, it is recommended to turn on the lights and you can start the first fish - for example, swordsmen. After three weeks, you can populate more fish and plants, be sure to replace a fifth of the water every week and clean the soil with a filter.
Thus, from the purchase of the aquarium and before the launch of fish in it takes at least two weeks! Knowing how to properly start a new aquarium, and performing everything consistently, the home pond will develop normally. In the aquarium, the biological system stabilizes in a month.