Aquarium in an interior - it is always beautiful, but it is not so easy. That your aquarium brought joy, but not efforts and chagrin, try to pick up components of the underwater kingdom correctly.
Instruction
1. Practicality. How to create an ordinary aquarium in the city apartment. It will be a standard aquarium, but not with collection small fishes. What to choose? Perhaps, having come to pet-shop, you stop a look on a beautiful round aquarium, but often it is not practical, it is very difficult to clean its walls from pollution, there will be difficulties with lighting. The rectangular aquarium will be optimum. Height has to be equal to width, and time length two to exceed it. If to speak about volume, then tanks of 50-150 liters are more relevant to room rooms.
2. Interior. It is the most favorable to put an aquarium a face to a window at small distance. Day lighting for it is very useful, but light should not be too bright. Of course, the aquarium has to fit harmoniously into an interior and attract a look at the entrance to the room.
3. Soil, water and plants. It is necessary to take care of a qualitative layer of earth. Its thickness has to be about 5 cm. Well gray river sand with granules on 5 mm will approach. Will not bring benefit fine yellow sand from a sandbox in the yard, will do much harm rather. Before the room in an aquarium, soil carefully is washed out and exposed to boiling within 15 minutes. Beautifully large stones, granite fragments look inside, but they also have to pass a sterilization stage. Aquarian water is not that water which flows at you from under the crane. It is too pure and in it is not present favorable for fishes and plants of microflora moreover presence of chlorine affects negatively. Therefore water, as a rule, settles and is a little warmed up that gas disappeared. Will help to make water qualitative and useful to fishes filters, them in modern shops great variety. The most popular – spongy. To enrich water with oxygen, place an azrator or compressors in an aquarium, they meet also as a part of filters and separately. Beauty and picturesqueness to your aquarium will be given by plants. They turn it into tiny model of the real reservoir. The most convenient planting of plants is considered such when dark high plants are planted along a back wall and on each side, and in the center beautiful low bushes, or small plants. The most unpretentious - the Javanese moss, anubias a dwarfish, Thai fern, Griffith, a saggitariya broad-leaved. At a combination of these plants, the landscape in your aquarium will be just magnificent.
4. What has to be light. Lighting can be natural, artificial or combined. The lack of hit of direct sunshine is desirable, otherwise walls of an aquarium will quickly acquire seaweed that leads to pollution. Fluorescent lamps are very convenient for lighting. Light will be uniform and beautiful. Those which on a range are brought most closer to sunlight will be more appropriate: warm white light, white light, but only not day. To determine the necessary power of lighting – usually watch plants. If appear green fouling – light too much. Plants became pale and thin – there is not enough light.
5. Inhabitants of an aquarium. About a week the aquarium has to stand without fishes. During this time Wednesday in it will become most favorable, there will take place necessary chemical processes. Biological balance has to be established. Less trouble will be brought by the small fishes unpretentious to a forage, water temperature and its chemical composition. There should not be too many fishes, it is better when inside there is more scope. Formula of calculations is as follows: has to fall on each two centimeters of a body of one "inhabitant" water about a liter. The aquarium young small fishes is better to occupy. It can be cardinals, speckled somik, sword-bearers, petsiliya. Will inure to benefit and mollusks. Melanija for example, clean aquarium walls, and also filter water and loosen a bottom that is very useful.