At last you brought home a long-awaited aquarium. Without knowing all features, you most likely will begin to fill it at once with water, to fill up with soil, to immerse seaweed and to start small fishes.
You should not hurry so, for this purpose that your work did not turn in sizif, first of all wash up an aquarium, in it for certain a heap of different harmful microorganisms, there could be any toxic substances from detergents with which it was wiped in salon. If you bought a frame aquarium, it is the best of all to wash it with solution of baking soda, or usual laundry soap. If you bought a beskarkasny aquarium - wash up it by means of 5% of solution of acetic acid and salt.
Now we will choose the place where it is necessary to establish an aquarium - to put it just on a windowsill will be not the best option as it is necessary to exclude long action of direct sunshine. If it reproduction causes not to make the sun microscopic green seaweed which settle on glasses; water blossoms, and plants become covered by a fringe. Do not you want to turn the aquarium into the swamp?It is desirable, to establish an aquarium to a window by side if it is impossible to make so close a window dense curtains. Do not put an aquarium near heating devices, and surely pick up its height it is possible to admire it both sitting, and standing. Think also that the aquarium needs electricity, and it is desirable that more place as to it sometimes it is necessary to bring buckets and canisters, and a flood few times water on a floor was near, you will begin to lose interest in an aquarium. It is the best of all to put an aquarium on a leaf from polystyrene, 1 cm thick to give it big stability. On the place for an aquarium decided, it was necessary to fill it with water, it is necessary to do it gradually, having filled it at first on a half, and in a day to add water so that to the upper bound there were 5 cm - it will allow to avoid troubles, in the form of the burst glasses. Check whether your aquarium flows then drain water, the "first" water needs to be drained. After refill, the aquarium is ready, but do not forget that just to start small fishes, in an aquarium it is not enough, it is necessary to buy devices for aeration and filtration of water and to ship the thermometer in water to watch water temperature. Also I advise you before purchase of small fishes to consult the expert.