Did you get an aquarium and hurry to choose for it small fishes? However before inhabiting the underwater world, provide future residents to all necessary. Make list of what needs to be bought, and go to big pet-shop where to you will help to equip an aquarium in full accordance with your wishes.
The house aquarium can be freshwater or sea, landscape or recreating fauna of a certain region, very big and very compact. Filling of future house reservoir and the choice of its inhabitants depends on the general idea. Beginning to begin more simply with a freshwater landscape aquarium with several species of decorative fishes. It is the most convenient the rectangular shapes established on a special curbstone. They are steady and rather capacious.
The artificial reservoir needs the system of filtration and aeration of water. Power of the compressor depends on the volume of an aquarium and the number of its inhabitants. The consultant can help with specialized pet-shop with the choice of a certain model – it will pick up an optimal variant for each concrete aquarium. Also models meet the built-in life support system. The following important item - acquisition of soil and plants. They can be natural or artificial. Live seaweed eat too much fishes and quickly lose decorative effect. Besides, they decay and spoil water. Having chosen living plants, be ready to watch their state, and to replace or replace in case of need. Artificial flora looks naturally, is beautiful and safe for fishes. From time to time it should be cleaned from garbage and deposits – on it all efforts with plastic seaweed come to an end. Any aquarium does not do without decorative elements - caves, grottoes, picturesque ruins. They serve as natural shelters for fishes and recover an underwater landscape. You should not get everything pleasant – choose the locks, figures and shells corresponding to the general idea of registration and leaving enough place for fishes. Before purchase study future scenery – they have to be non-toxic, not have too narrow cracks where inhabitants of an aquarium and sharp elements about which they can be wounded can get. Buy useful partners – the snails providing purity of an aquarium naturally. They will clean glass, plants and soil from a raid, to remove traces of activity of fishes and the remains of their forage. Besides, these beings very lovely look. If you bought living plants, specify whether the snails chosen as you eat them. Get an arsenal of small objects for service of an aquarium. Rubber hoses will be necessary for you for water change, a glass tube for removal of garbage from a bottom, a scraper for purification of glass, nets for catch of fishes and capacity for their change. Do not forget also about a forage for future inhabitants. Is most practical to buy the ready vitaminized universal mix – it is suitable for the majority of breeds. And, at last, the most interesting – the choice of fishes. Do not buy up all pleasant copies – the number of future residents depends on aquarium volume. Consider that some breeds, are incompatible with each other. Before a visit of shop study specialized literature, make the approximate list of future residents, and in pet-shop introduce amendments in it by means of the selling assistant.