Aquarium - transparent capacity for constant keeping of fishes. Water in an aquarium plays a huge role for the organisms and plants living in it. Try to watch purity of water and to adhere to recommendations.
It is required to you
- Aquarium, water and the enclosed instruction.
Instruction
1. Before landing in a new aquarium of plants and fishes it is necessary to prepare not only water, but also an aquarium. The frame aquarium is carefully washed with warm water of room temperature with baking soda or laundry soap. Then it is filled with water of room temperature depending on putty for a period of two-three up to ten days. In two three days the procedure should be repeated. It is necessary to change water two-three times, the painty smell will not be gone yet.
2. All-glass aquariums from organic glass wash with warm water with addition of salt or 5% solution of acetic or hydrochloric acid. After that they are washed once again with warm water. When filling a new aquarium it is necessary to remember that it is filled at first with water to a half, and in two-three days add waters so that to the upper edge remained to the 4-8th. Thereby pressure upon glasses of an aquarium increases gradually, and they do not burst. Filling with water a small aquarium, under a stream it is necessary to substitute a wide plate, a hand, a piece of plywood, the sheet of cardboard not to wash away soil.
3. It is better to fill a big aquarium through a hose. At the same time water has to fall on the deep plateau put on other plate standing upside down on soil. Sometimes aquarians fill an aquarium with water right after landing of plants, but not to it. In this case when filling an aquarium with water it is necessary to use a funnel with a reflective plateau. For an aquarium it is necessary to find a covering (usually thick glass). It will protect it from dust, will not allow fishes to jump out, will interfere with too fast cooling and evaporation of water. If indoors air too dry, then an aquarium it is possible to use for its moistening. In this case the aquarium can be not covered, but it is necessary to reduce water level that fishes could not jump out of it. For air flow in an aquarium and for protection against rust of an iron framework the covering is put not on aquarium walls, and on small supports height the 5-15th. It can be pieces of an eraser, a strip from organic glass, clips from not oxidized metal. But an aquarium which contains the fishes capable it is good to jump or get out on walls through a crack, it has to be densely covered.
4. How to make an aquarium beautiful. Registration of an internal part of an aquarium has to be close to natural conditions of dwelling of fishes as we usually also create an aquarium to have a nature corner in the apartment. Sometimes it is possible to see imitating the flooded city of a block of marble or divers whose of helmets air bubbles beat, but all this it is possible to allow only the child in the children's room. The aquarium not for children has to look as it is possible more simply outside and brightly, but naturally inside. It is desirable to hide all devices and technical devices. In general, choosing jewelry for an aquarium, it is necessary to seek to recreate, first of all, a natural picture, emphasizing only beauty of the main inhabitants of an aquarium - fishes and plants.
5. Well the soil located steps, and which is creeping away in water sand looks it is possible to fix by stones or glass strips hidden behind them. The trays with flowers established along a back wall create a good background. Them it is possible to arrange steps: to ahead plant low plants, and behind them high. Also other option of a many-tier zasadka is possible: low plants land ahead, and big behind and from sides. For fans of asymmetry it is possible to suggest to plant ahead, almost at a windshield, some big plant, and in the middle or sideways to put a stone or a snag, at the same time on all aquarium let plants of the different size grow. When choosing you remember that different plants demand various lighting. Plants with identical requirements can be grouped at the different levels and to equip terraces (step) which usually do of a tree and stones. In the general composition of your aquarium has to be one or several bright spots fixing an eye. Other decorative means should not be evident, them it is better to arrange on the background. Sometimes the overall picture of an aquarium has only one element drawing attention. It has to be the bush of a magnificent plant, for example sagittariya Japanese or kriptokorina. It is necessary to put him a little aside from the center of an aquarium not to create symmetry, unpleasant for eyes, and also to make room for feeding. Then plants with tape-like leaves, a vallisneriya usual or branching elodey and a peristolistnik which, expanding, will create frames on the background at the edges will well look. Several bushes which are not encumbering the middle of an aquarium and the foreground can be arranged izoetis, a spiralelistny vallisneriya, a marsiliya; soil has to have a slope with the deepest place everywhere in the free, not set part of an aquarium where dirt will gather. On a water surface it is good to start up a richchiya, a salviniya and several bushes of a water kapustka or lyagushechnik.
6. If at you two-three aquariums stand nearby, when landing plants it is necessary to think not only of creation of an underwater landscape in each of them, but also and of the general impression made by a nature corner in general. The greatest charm is reached by an underwater picture, certainly, only when plants begin to expand: the leaves focused in relation to light, shoots taking the most brightly lit places give to an aquarian landscape big naturalness.
7. For reconstruction of a river landscape use roundish stones, for imitation of rocks - flat stones of irregular shape, fragments without keen edges. In aquariums with the fishes digging soil the large stones forming the basis for high terraces place directly on a bottom, sometimes paste them epoxy resin or cement. The stones intended for an aquarium should not contain metals and salts of calcium. It is the best of all to use stones of basalt origin and also facets also some types of sandstone. If on the chemical composition the stone causes suspicions, it is possible to process it solution of hydrochloric acid, as well as gravel. Beautifully roots and branches of trees look in an aquarium. For registration it is possible to use snags which long time lay in flowing water or peat bogs. The alder and a willow are considered as the best breeds. It is impossible to place in an aquarium the begun to rot tree, the lain any time under a silt layer. Live wood is completely unsuitable. Roots or branches even if they long time were in flowing water, before the room in an aquarium should be boiled down in saturated solution of table salt. Such processing disinfects wood and condenses its structure - the boiled-down snags become dense, heavy and sink in water. For registration of a tropical aquarium it is possible to use a shell of coconuts, stalks of a bamboo and reed.
8. In aquariums for twilight, night or territorial species of fish it is necessary to make shelters for each such fish. For this purpose put snags on soil (besides, alder or willow); the separate or put in a look a peshcherok, grottoes large stones; disguised by sand, gravel, stones or snags of cutting of ceramic pipes or pots.
9. For spawning in an aquarium it is necessary to create shelters or substrate for caviar. It can be the flowerpots lying on one side, a shell of coconuts, pottery, scraps of glass, synthetic tubes, fibers, a tile, etc. However these objects should not have acute angles and allocate hazardous substances in water. In a cage for a tag of whitebaits females of viviparous breeds of fishes it is necessary to hang up a piece of glass. It has to hang obliquely on an aluminum or galvanized steel wire so that its side edges adjoined aquarium walls, and lower had a gap in 3-4 mm through which whitebaits would have an opportunity to fall down. It is impossible often and the more so completely to change water in an aquarium. For the majority of species of tropical fishes it is rather simple to update water, and it becomes not more often than time in seven-ten days. For this purpose a rubber hose from a bottom of an aquarium suck away garbage and the remains of a forage, merge no more than 1/3, and 1/5 all volumes of water are better, adding water with the same characteristics, as well as water in an aquarium. Fresh water has to be added in the small portions, gradually. In cold water aquariums at a podlivaniye water should not be warmed up. For warm-water aquariums it is the best of all to use water 1-2 degrees warmer, than aquarium water. Partial change of water is made at violation of the oxygen mode (if fishes choke), during the cleaning of a bottom and glasses. But you have to try to minimize even partial change of water. At substitution of water or cleaning of an aquarium of fishes it is not necessary to catch. Full change of water is a last resort and has to be made in exceptional cases: at a disease and death of fishes, emergence of parasitic microorganisms, etc. After full change of water the biological balance has to be established anew. And at well set stable mode water can not change for years.