So, you decided to be engaged in aquarium husbandry. The place for an aquarium is already chosen, its future inhabitants small fishes too, things are easy – to get an aquarium. But how not to become puzzled in huge assortment of models and options?
Form and size
Probably, the first what aquarians – the size of future aquarium think of. If you absolutely still the beginner in cultivation of small fishes, is better to begin, of course, with an aquarium of the average size. However, you should know that care for a small aquarium, it is kind of paradoxical sounded, it is much more difficult, than for big. Why? The fact is that the microclimate of an aquarium and comfort of its inhabitants in many respects are defined by a ratio of the oxygen dissolved in water. In the course of breath of fish emit carbon dioxide which also gets to water. Besides, water is polluted by waste products. Therefore, the area of an aquarium is less, the water will become soiled quicker and more often it should be changed. And the aquarium is more spacious, the more comfortably in it small fishes will feel.The form of aquariums is also very various today. You can order a design of any complexity and give vent to the imagination. But, thinking out intricate design of future aquarium, do not forget that he has to fit into your interior and to be convenient in service. It is the most convenient to clean rectangular aquariums, they are the most popular because of the universality today: such lodge for fishes will decorate any interior and will occupy the minimum quantity of the place.
Material and way of productionImportant detail – material of which the aquarium is made. It can be glass, plexiglas or asbestos cement. Glass aquariums make two types: frame and beskarkasny. In the first case in a junction of sheets of glass the aquarium design in addition becomes stronger by means of metal corners. Frame aquariums it is heavier, but also is stronger than beskarkasny. If you do not want excess expenses, and too big durability is not required, it is possible to manage classical option – a beskarkasny aquarium. Its details connect to the silicone help. Amateur aquarians most often give to beskarkasny models preference. And here plexiglas allows to bend walls of designs under different corners and to do them rounded and asymmetric. Such aquariums usually make for offices or studios, but they are much more expensive of ordinary rectangular. Asbestos-cement aquariums are practically not used by fans, as a rule, make them for large volumes of water in zoos or oceanariums.