Siphon Aquarium
How to Care for Aquarium Fish
You are keeping the simplest kind of pet if you have fish in an aquarium. These are a few essential steps to take in order to provide adequate care for your new marine friends. A few of these care measures will have to be done everyday, but there are some fortnightly and weekly things to do too. The maintenance work you have to perform daily is very simple and pleasurable. You can detect any signs of sickness by spending a few minutes watching them everyday. Yes, fishes do suffer from stress so keeping a fish happy is the secret to keeping it healthy.
Check the lights and the filters of the aquarium daily to see if they are working correctly and they are properly plugged. You have to make sure you feed your fish daily. Two to five minutes is the maximum time limit for your fish to be able to consume whatever food you give them. Any excess food will become debris in the tank and lead to illness or attribute to excess nitrite levels. Keep a weekly monitoring on the pH of the water and its temperature. Do not procrastinate on any adjustments that need to be made. Be sure to ask your pet store what the right pH level to maintain when purchasing the fish. The conditions are different for each kind of fish.
Cleaning the filter is crucial. The waste materials that are produced in the tank due to excretion of the fish are collected in the filters. Without cleaning the filter repeatedly, they will not be able to remove the wastes because they will get clogged very soon. The filters have another important job to do apart from removing the waste materials from the tank – this is to cycle oxygen within the tank. You will find that the cycling of gases within the tank will become reduced in speed if the filters are clogged. This limits the amount of oxygen in the tank. Without rectifying this problem as soon as possible, your fish are surely moving towards an untimely death. Change the filter on the aquarium every two to three weeks depending on need. An indication to clean your filter is when the water starts looking or smelling bad. You may either clean your filter with ordinary water or change it but it depends on what kind of filter you are using.
The proper way to change water in a tank is to do it gradually. You have to be particular to detach lights and other equipments when you are cleaning your fish tank. Change only about one in three parts of the water of the fish tank on a weekly or biweekly basis. Water can be added from the tank provided you treat it for temperature, keeping it near two degrees of the water in the aquarium. If you are confused what kind of water would do best for your fish, your local pet store owner can guide you. In some cases, just a half-hour treatment for the water would suffice, but in some cases, you may need to keep treating the water throughout the entire night.
Using a good quality scrubber, remove the alga formations that develop on the sides of your tank. Be careful not to disturb or scare the fish. Shift the rocks and other nonliving stuff in the aquarium to release debris held under them. When replacing the water, try to get this debris out using a small bucket or a vacuum siphon. Regularly pick out the decaying leaves of the plants in your tank. You can clean the exterior of your aquarium with a bit of sponge soaked in water. You will also have to clean the cover and the lid of your aquarium. Your cleaning is done.
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