The aquarium with small fishes is not only an element of a house decor. Long ago it is proved that observation of behavior of the small fishes swimming there of glass, calms and weakens. Thus, the aquarium can play a means role for stress relief. Filtration has to be otherwise small fishes in dirty water long will not live in each aquarium. Filters purify water from inorganic substances, remove the organic compounds and other substances dissolved in it from water, provide circulation of water and enrich it with oxygen.
Instruction
1. Process of installation of the filter depends on its purpose and type. And in the location the filters for aquariums divide into external and internal.
2. Internal filters: Airlifts are the simplest devices lifting water in a tube by means of the bubbles created by the compressor. Such filters almost completely immerse in an aquarium, almost to the bottom. Airlifts establish in small aquariums, spawning and nursery for whitebaits. Stakanny filters. The plastic "glass" having inside substrate for filtration fastens to an electropomp. Such filters quite often play a role of aerators of water. Multisection internal filters resemble on a box, divided into sections. Such filters unite in themselves several types of filtration at once. And each section the filtration. Such filters fasten to aquarium walls. The truth they have an essential shortcoming – they are big the sizes. Ground aquariums establish at the bottom of an aquarium. The plate or several connected plates are put on a bottom, filled up with sand. Ground filters usually play a role of auxiliary filters.
3. External filters are multisection and kanistrovy. Kanistrovy filters are installed outside of an aquarium and are reported with it through hoses of a fence and return of water. Are very capacious. Support all types of filtration. Some models are equipped with the heater. Multisection external filters are very similar to their internal fellows, they are only established out of an aquarium.