The maintenance of an aquarium - process rather labor-consuming, especially for the beginning manufacturer. A health basis for the fishes and plants inhabiting an aquarium is quality water. It has to be transparent, not have color and a smell that is reached as a result of special preparation of liquid.
Instruction
1. The most important that the beginning aquarian has to know - fishes cannot be let in an aquarium with tap unprepared water. It can lead to death of living organisms. That fishes and plants took root, in advance prepare water, make it transparent. In a new clean aquarium pour water from under the crane and let it stand 2-3 days. As soon as water loses a chlorine smell, it settled enough. It is possible to put soil and to plant plants.
2. After soil laying, water can lose transparency again, becoming at first blue, and then muddy. These are parts of soil, small stalks and backs of plants pollute water. Therefore it is impossible to put fishes there so far. Approximately in one or one and a half hours, soil will accumulate, and in an aquarium it will be possible to put fishes. If you after all doubt water quality, add special means for water preparation (for example, Aquasafe). This mix will make water completely suitable for dwelling of fishes and will protect it from development of pathogenic flora.
3. After fishes and plants lodged in an aquarium, water will have 3-4 more months a bluish shade. And only later certain time when all living organisms take root finally, water will find dullness and transparency again. It means that water reached the most optimum stage which at experienced aquarians is called ""old"". In such water both the animals, and plants feel comfortable. Fishes are not ill and actively breed, and plants have bright, saturated color. To define that water reached this stage simply. In the dark room illuminate a front wall of an aquarium a desk lamp. If water is not visible, fishes kind of soar in air, so you achieved perfect condition of water.
4. If your aquarium is equipped with the modern systems of cleaning and filtration of water, then it is not necessary to change it often. Update water only if water dimmed, there were a lot of parts of seaweed and waste products of fishes floating in water. Then a part of water is cast and the corresponding volume of the settled or prepared tap water is added. The more often water in an aquarium changes, the smaller volume needs to be merged.
5. If there is no system of cleaning to make water transparent, it is necessary to change it from time to time. It is necessary to cast from an aquarium no more than 1/4 parts of water, replacing it defended water. It is necessary to do it not more often than time in 2-3 weeks. Fishes take liquid change very hard therefore get the system of filtration better. Also do not forget to wash aquarium walls from a raid. It can become the main reason for turbidity of water.