Equipment For Setting Up Your New Fish Aquarium
The first thing to consider when you are planning anew aquarium is where are you going to place it? You will obviously need to be able to see it, whilst having straightforward access on the water changes to remove and replace the water. But, whilst all of this water is being moved about, you also need access to electricity (with masses of plugs!). Given that water and electricity do not mix, some thought is needed.
Then, with a load of fish, if the aquarium is in a high traffic area of your household, lots of varieties will not take kindly to the constant disturbances. You will also want to keep away from draughts and direct sunlight. So in all, quite a conundrum when you are trying to work out where to position the aquarium.
Now, you need to start on the supplies! Along with the actual aquarium you need the cupboard to place it on. A large tank will weigh ample – even a two foot aquarium can weigh in excess of a grown man. So the furniture that you place it on should be the proper equipment, not just any old bit of a cupboard that may not take the extreme weight.
Next, look at the equipment that is needed to fit out the tank. You may find that your aquarium arrives with much of the gear that you will need, but lots of the time it is not actually up to the job. For instance, you need a decent filter to keep the water clean. But in my experience, the filter that arrives with the tank is just merely up to the job if you have no living plants and only some clean living fish. Start building up to a full tank and lots of the required plants and the load on the filter is far too much. I always upgrade a filter to at least the next size up from that which is recommended for / supplied with the aquarium.
If you have purchased a general tank then it may be setup for cold water fish. The conversion to tropical fish is quite easy, as long as the tank is made of suitable materials (you should not try to convert a plastic aquarium to a tropical aquarium). All that you need is an underwater heater. If you have a centrally heated house then the heater is not going to have to work too hard, so the minimum for the size of the aquarium will be plentiful. But a few fish keepers prefer to double up with two heaters set to the same temperature, or sometimes setting one slightly higher.
Finally you need an air supply. You might fit a venturi to the air pump that adds air to the out flow, but you must keep the filter clean. I use this on my bigger tanks, but a separate air supply on the smaller aquarium as the filters clog quicker.
Written by Keith Lunt. If you are in need of Pet Supplies, call in!
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