Required Fish Tank Maintenance

Fish tank maintenance is an absolute must for anyone who owns a fish tank. Of course, if you have the financial means, you can always hire a company to come into your home and care for your fish tank. If done regularly and correctly fish tank maintenance doesn’t have to be involved and complicated. Fish tank maintenance can be taken care of easily if done regularly. Steps To Fish Tank Maintenance Probably the most important piece of equipment for fish tank maintenance is the filtration system. There are a couple of different types of filtration systems. The one you will see most often is a box that fits over the side of the tank. The water is circulated through the filtration system, which usually uses charcoal to filter the impurities out of the water. Another type of filtration system is a biological filtration system. This can be used in conjunction with the charcoal filtration system, and allows good bacteria to grow in the tank and which can help keep the tank clean. The number of fish you have in the tank can lead to problems, especially if you have too many fish in a tank that is too small. Make sure you have the correct population for the size of tank you have. Along with this, overfeeding can often be a problem. Fish should only be fed the amount they can eat within a few minutes. If you feed the fish too much, the leftovers fall to the bottom of the tank and turn into sludge which is not a healthy environment for fish to live in. You will need to change out part of the water on a weekly basis as part of the fish tank maintenance. This keeps the algae level down and helps to provide a healthier environment for your fish. Every two weeks or so as part of your fish tank maintenance, you will need to change out a larger percentage of the water; every week you should be changing about 15%, while every two weeks about 50% or more should be changed out. Just keeping an eye on your fish and observing their behavior can help with your fish tank maintenance issues. If the fish are looking unhealthy, take a proactive approach and figure out what is wrong with them and fix it. Keeping a clean fish tank and healthy living environment are not difficult fish tank maintenance tasks, and a little preventive fish tank maintenance here and there can really help in the long run.

Beautifying Your Aquarium With Fish Tank Ornaments

Regardless of the way one’s taste run – from the classically modern to the truly cheesy – there are fish tank ornaments to meet the needs of any owner. These ornaments can be used to spice up a dul. . .

Water change
Just the normal, did 4 buckets of change and swapped the white wool filter at the top, and also one of the fine blue ones. We went to local fish shop the other day and got a batch of the filter media, they commented that we were buying a lot but I didn’t really see [...]

Water change
Just the normal, did 4 buckets of change and swapped the white wool filter at the top, and also one of the fine blue ones. We went to local fish shop the other day and got a batch of the filter media, they commented that we were buying a lot but I didn’t really see [...]

snails again
Well i’ve ordered 4 different snails will be arriving in the post sometime. I’m getting them delivered to work, now i don’t expect this to be a problem cos it’s accepted that we will get stuff sent there, but a box of water labelled “livestock” might be one of the more interesting things to turn [...]

Ordered New Replacement Skimmer Pump - Eheim 1260
Called up EuroReef and ordered a new modified Eheim 1260 recirculating needle wheel pump for my RC-500 skimmer. Frustrating and annoyed that I have to keep tossing money into this skimmer, but the performance is amazing and the skimmer is totally worth it.

blooming snails
Well I think i’ll have to divert my ranting from algae to snails now. The algae is proving much less of an issue, but the snails have started eating the plants! To recap, we got some snails here: http://www.jammeh.com/fishblog/2005/09/26/woooo/ and some more here: http://www.jammeh.com/fishblog/2005/11/11/more-snails/ and they’re very good in the main, nice colours, shiney etc. I was actually [...]

poor guppies
Another one of the guppies died today, they really do drop off with depressing regularity. Hopefully there isn’t anything that we’re doing wrong, water conditions seem normal, everybody else is fine it’s just the particular ones that has trouble.