Dr Foster Fish

It can be fun to create a fish tank aquarium, but like all hobbies it pays to do some research before you start. Before buying a fish you need to cycle the tank properly to ensure that there are enough bacteria to cope with the waste produced by your fish. We recommend a fishless cycling method detailed below.

Choose tank

aquariums aquarium can be purchased in glass or acrylic. glass tanks are cheaper, are heavier and sometimes spring leaks. Acrylic tanks are more expensive, more rarely leak, come in a variety of forms, but does scratch easily. Acrylic tanks generally last longer than glass tanks.

Shape Fish Tank

Acrylic tanks come in a variety of shapes including cylinders, hexagon, octagon, round, and the traditional rectangular shape. There are also tanks and tank wall coffee table. The traditional rectangular shape is still the best, however, that the volume of surface water is a maximum exchange of gases for good. For other forms, with a smaller volume to surface ratio of water surface, maintenance will be higher and more frequent changes of water will be needed.

In general, you can buy the largest tank that will fit where you are placing it and you can afford. A larger tank requires less maintenance and you can take in more fish without risking overcrowding.

Fishless cycling method

Requirements

Ammonia, nitrite and nitrate test strips

bacterial culture of a reservoir created - this can be a filter material or gravel

Or use a commercial preparation, such as wikis, by Dr. Foster & Smith or Biospira by Marineland
unscented ammonia

Method

After adding the bacteria culture to your newly created reservoir add 5 drops of ammonia for every ten gallons of water. Test ammonia. If no records add a few more drops until you get a reading. Continue to add the same amount every day until you can detect nitrite in the tank. Now add half the quantity of ammonia per day until the records of nitrate on the test strip. At this point, the nitrite levels should begin to decrease. When they reach zero the tank is cycling. Make a water change of 30% and you're ready for your fish.

Choose fish

Carefully consider the types of fish can be kept together. Community fish are those who live in peace with each other. All fish below are adapted to a tropical aquarium of the Community.

* Guppy
Loach Horseface *
* Lyretail
* Hatchetfish
* Molly
Leopard Catfish *
Neon Tetra *
* Head Tail Light Tetra
Opaline gourami *
* Platy
* Pearl Gourami
* Harlequin Rasbora
Penguin Fish *
* White Cloud
* Rainbowfish
* Black Phantom Tetra
* Australian rainbowfish
* Ram
* Black Shark
* X-Ray Fish
* Spotted Catfish
* Blue Acara
* Plecostomus
* Rummy Nose Tetra
Tetra Serpae *
* Paradisefish Spiketailed
* Blue Acara
* Angelfish
* Black Shark
* Pencilfish
* Cherry Barb
* Black Neon Tetra
* Bristlenose
* Chinese algae eater
* Upside Down Catfish
* Bala (Tri-Color) Shark
* Zebra
Elephant Nose *
* Boesman of rainbowfish
* Black Phantom Tetra
* Flame Tetra
Dwarf Loach *
* Green Catfish
Dwarf gourami *
* Congo Tetra
* Blue Danio
* Bumble Bee Goby
* Bloodfin
Tetra Luminescence *
* Corydoras
Banjo Catfish *
* Cardinal Tetra
Gourami Flame *
* Giant Danio
* Clown Loach
* Festivum
* Emperor Tetra

Examine the fish tanks at the pet store to ensure that the fish look healthy and not dead fish in tanks. The pursuit of fish, you will be.