Devices for an aquarium differ in the variety. Even the experienced aquarian can get confused in all these jars, boxes and tubules what to speak about beginners in this case. If you only just begin to master aquarium husbandry and are going to get all necessary for keeping of beautiful tropical small fishes in house conditions, not superfluous for you will be to learn how independently to make a fishes feeder. Believe, it is very simple.
It is required to you
- glue for plexiglas, plexiglas, plastic, a hollow rubber tubule, polyfoam, a knife, a pricker
Instruction
1. It is very easy to make a feeding trough for a dry feed of usual polyfoam. Take a small rectangular piece 1-1.5 cm high. Length and width depends on the sizes of your aquarium and special role does not play. A fine edge or a knife accurately cut out a rectangular or square frame from polyfoam. You watch that width of edge of a frame was not more than 2 cm, but also very narrow too you should not do it. Such feeding trough will well float and will not sink, and in case of its pollution or deformation, such feeding trough can be replaced with new easily.
2. If near at hand there is no polyfoam or you want to create for the aquarium something more practical and less extravagant, the feeding trough can be made of a rubber or plastic tubule with a diameter of 0.8 - 1 cm. Bend a tube a ring, and record the ends an insubmergible subject of a cylindrical form of slightly smaller diameter. Such feeding trough will also stay afloat, but unlike foam, can accidentally sink if water gets into a tube cavity. You watch that connections were recorded hermetically and did not disperse by gravity or at contact with water.
3. For a live forage make a feeding trough with a double bottom. If for feeding of small fishes dry crustaceans the frame freely floating on a water surface suffices, then the feeding trough with small openings is necessary for a crank. Fishes will swim to a feeding trough and to be enough the live forage which is hanging down from holes. It is possible to make such feeding trough of plexiglas or plastic up to 1.5 mm thick. Make a rectangular frame of four strips of glass, having accurately stuck together them among themselves. Also make a feeding trough bottom of plexiglas or plastic. In day it is necessary to make a large number of openings, with a diameter about 2 mm. When all parts of a feeding trough are ready, stick together the basis with a bottom. It is possible to fix such feeding trough to edge of an aquarium wire hooks.