If you decided to take care of small fishes, then do not hurry in shop behind their purchase. At first laborious work on arrangement of an aquarium, preparation it to settling by living inhabitants is necessary to you. Before buying small fishes, you need to pass several important stages of the device of the house for them.
Instruction
1. Pour water for an aquarium after it settles several days. It is better if it is not in bottles, and in a basin or in glass jars. The wide throat that hazardous substances which are in tap water (in particular, the chlorine terrible for fishes and plants) managed to disappear is necessary.
2. While water settles, fill an aquarium with soil and plants. Soil has to be such that was suitable for those fishes which you are going to get. Also in it plant plants. Bury roots in soil more deeply. As water plants have to be washed freely by water, you should not use fine sand, it will slezhivatsya, and roots will decay. Use small and average pebble, stones, etc. better.
3. Do not plant too many plants – over time they will expand, will blossom, and it will be more difficult for you to look after an aquarium, also it can break a microenvironment. Do not plant them too closely to each other and at a front wall of an aquarium, they will block the review and to darken an aquarium.
4. After you suited soil and planted plants, fill capacity with the settled water. Do it accurately not to damage soil, plants and the strengthened equipment (illumination, etc.). It is the best of all to pour not too much, and on a plate, then water will flow down several streams.
5. After you filled in water, do not hurry to place fishes there. At first wait when in an aquarium the microclimate is established. The aquarium is the closed ecosystem which at reasonable approach and the correct leaving will exist several years. At first water will be muddy and whitish because in the new environment the set of bacteria will breed. After a while it will be cleaned and will become transparent, and plants will get used to change, will recover and will finish. That's when only then you can start in an aquarium of small fishes.
6. In order that the aquarium was the comfortable house for all the residents, it is necessary that in it lighting was adjusted and the heater is installed and also the filter worked. Also on update water from time to time. For this purpose it is necessary to transplant small fishes for a while in a spare aquarium with otstoyanny water, and old (about 1/5 from total amount) to replace a part new, defended. In the same time clean an aquarium, remove the died-off plants or their parts. In order that aquarium walls always were clean, lodge in it several snails.