The term "aquarian economy" usually is meant as a set of aquariums of various size and appointment and also the equipment, necessary for them, for lighting, heating, water filtration, etc. Fans of aquarium fishes sometimes face a problem of impossibility to acquire aquarian economy of the necessary sizes, but it can be made independently.
It is required to you
- - glass (thickness of 4-8 mm);
- - glass-cutter;
- - glue-sealant;
- - fabric for wipe;
- - liquid for degreasing, for example, alcohol;
- - emery paper;
- - gloves
Instruction
1. Define how many aquariums, and what sizes, are required to you. It depends on quantity of species of small fishes which you are going to part also from what part of the room you will take away under aquarian economy. For each species of fishes tanks are necessary for keeping of producers, spawning, keeping of juveniles, bringing up of whitebaits and feeding.
2. Make marking on glass and start cutting. Cut glass in gloves – so more safely. It is better for line of a section to process an emery paper at once, then glass can be taken barehanded. For a start try to make a small aquarium. For a nerestovik cut out the following details: a bottom – 250х400 mm, front and back walls – two details on 250х390 mm, sidewalls – two details on 250х250 mm.
3. Degrease the surface of glass. Accurately applying glue-sealant, stick together aquarium details. The aquarium bottom has to support perimeter of walls from all directions.
4. That the aquarium turned out from the first, follow the following rules. You apply glue-sealant evenly and a good layer that it was enough for gluing together. Until sealant grabbed yet, iron a finger seams to smooth and distribute glue. It is better if it will be a little more sealant, it can always be erased. You do not dry an aquarium about heating devices – it can burst. Let dries at the room temperature.
5. By analogy nerestoviky, make a big aquarium. For it it is better to take glass a little more thickly. Besides, in a big aquarium it is recommended to do stiffening ribs. For this purpose it is necessary to cut out from glass of a strip and to paste on perimeter of the top walls in an aquarium. Such design stiffens glass capacity. To calculate width of stiffening ribs, it is necessary to increase glass thickness by seven. For example, if for production of an aquarium you use glass of 6 mm, then the stiffening rib has to be not already 42 mm.
6. If you want to make a long, but not wide aquarium, it is necessary to use couplers. A coupler – a piece of squared glass which is pasted between a back and front wall on the center of an aquarium. One aquarium can be strengthened also two couplers, in that case they will divide it into three equal parts.
7. Establish ready aquariums. For this purpose bedside tables, whatnots, racks, etc. will approach. Even if a surface on which you are going to put an aquarium ideally equal, under it it is worth putting laying. Very well polyfoam 20 mm thick is suitable for such purpose, only cover it with dark fabric – some species of fish "do not love" a white bottom.
8. Install the lighting, filtering and other necessary devices in aquariums. The complete set of aquariums depends on for what purposes any given capacity is intended.