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Aquarium Maintenance
An aquarium of fish makes a fascinating focal point in homes, businesses, and offices. Keeping them operating and the fish healthy is a challenge that can lead to a lot of questions. For answers, ask your questions here.
287 Questions
Protein skimmers to remove small amounts of water. They create bubbles and this becomes the skimmate. Also, some water remains in the skimmer when it is on.
In general people do not have to adjust their water or salinity because of skimmers.
It is important to match the size of the tank and the skimmer.
You should probably find them a new home and when the time comes to have fish again, you should buy a bigger tank and a filter. Three fish cannot properly live and survive in a 2.5 gallon tank - this is not even safe for a betta
What fish can be combined with a beta in a ten gallon fish tank?
Bettas go great in a community tank. Tetras, Loaches, and Cory Catfish all go well with Betta fish. Anything that doesn't have large, flowing fins and isn't a fin-nipping fish will do well. Just be sure to add the Betta last or he might be territorial and vicioius toward the other fish.
Can an aquarium be an ecosystem?
Yes, it is possibloe to turn an aquarium into an eco system and certain types of Nano Aquarium are already complete micro-ecosystems, like the ones here: http://www.zooroyal.de/Aquaristik-Shop/Nano-Aquaristik/Nano-Aquarium-Nano-Cube/DENNERLE-NanoCube-Complete-Plus-20l-Aquarium-Set.html
In order to turn a larger aquarium into a self-contained eco-system you need to start slowly. Getting the right plants to grow can take weeks. After that, snails, mollusks and other invertebrates are added and the fish come last. It is a quite a long process and also rather expensive.
No there is nothing that will clean a tank other than using your brains and muscles to do the work. (All living aquatic creatures excrete and make ammonia) If you set up your tank properly, follow the basic rules of stocking, and have a good power filter the only regular cleaning you will need to do is to scrape the algae off the inside of the front glass and syphon the mulm from the gravel bottom of the tank at the front. The basic stocking rules are. :- 1 inch of fish needs at least 1 gallon of water. :- Every tank needs a permanently running cycled filter. (This converts deadly Ammonia into none deadly Nitrate):- Every tank needs at least 50% of its water replaced every week. (This prevents a build up of excessive Nitrate.) Follow the above rules and your fish stand a chance. Fail in any of them and I can guarantee that your fish will be constantly getting sick and will live a shortened lifespan
Should I clean my aquarium that I havent cleaned in 3 years even if the one gourami is living well?
Yes, of course! If fact, you should change 50 percent of the water every two weeks!
In saltwater aquariums what kind of sand do you use?
Use calcium carbonate or calcite based sand; usually called 'aragonite' sand. Do not use play sand (ie, silica sand) or normal sand, it will cause massive diatom blooms.
Why is it important to test water in a fish tank?
you have to make shure that the tank is clean and ate the right tempiter or you will kill the fish
Why does your fish keep biting the tank?
they see a reflection of themselves in the glass and think it is another fish
shops
Why Is the dH of a aquarium so important?
The dH is the measurement of KH which should be above 4.5 dH. The KH can determine the stability of the PH in your tank. If it's too soft, you may need to add crushed coral to your filtration, too hard and you may need peat moss; this is all dependant on the type of fish you keep
How does coral help an aquarium?
1. It gives the little fish a place to hide from the bigger fish, and a place for any fish to hang out.
2. Living coral in a marine tank will filter out algae from the water
3. It looks fantastic! it ads color to your seascape.
4. anenomes will attach to it and add even more diversity to your tank
coral in a fresh water tank will release toxic amounts of salt.
Once algae grows in the coral it is nearly impossible to clean and looks really crappy.
Is there any way to remove an egg mess from a microwave?
I would try using a 50/50 solution of warm water and white vinegar. This always seems to clean everything. Hope this helps! I spray window cleaner all over and let it sit for a bit. Then I clean it out with a rag that I rinse often. You don't want that stuff in your food! :) I think there is vinegar in window cleaner so that's why it works...I don't know! I'll try that answer above too!
Not if they are maintained with the mindset that it is a living ecosystem. Do not try to keep it scrubbed perfectly spotless all the time. Don't use chemicals near it to clean. If you have an open wound don't go bathing in your aquarium. Change the water at least once every two weeks if you don't have true aquatic live plants in the system. I don't think an aquarium is any less 'unhealthy' than a dog or cat licking it's butt then your kids hand... or face eww.
yes you can
Why is it best not to use tap water in a aquarium?
There is nothing wrong with tap water. Most people use it safely. You simply have to make sure that you either let the chlorine evaporate off before using it or you use a commercially available water conditioner to remove the chlorine/ chloramine.
In a fish tank which way do you turn the filter?
There are so many different types of filter it is hard to give instructions/direction on how to set one up. The filter outlet needs to send the water away from the filter.
What size of tank should a battea fish use?
A minimal tank size of 2.5 gallons is recommended for a single Betta fish.
An aquarium is good example of mini-ecosystem carefully examine an aquarium?
An Aquarium is a good example of mini-ecosystem carefully examine an aquarium set up to represent a pond or reef. This will allow you to observed behaviors or interactions that may be difficult to observe in the natural habitat.
Why is your water tank steaming?
you need anti freeze. this also stops the water from boiling over (will not allow water to turn to steam when heated or freeze in sub zero temperatures).
What cycle occurs in the aquarium?
Nitrogen Cycle occurs in the aquarium.
Fish produce ammonia which is toxic. In a well established aquarium, Some beneficial bacteria will break down the ammonia into nitrite, and a second species of bacteria will break down nitrite into less harmful nitrate. The whole process of converting ammonia into nitrite and then into nitrate is called nitrogen cycle.
Although, only well established fish tanks have this nitrogen cycle going normally.
For new aquariums, fish keepers must do fishless nitrogen cycle before they add any fish at all, or the fish will risk dying to ammonia poisoning due to insufficient amount of good bacteria. The whole fishless nitrogen cycle process can take 6~8 weeks.
How does an aquarium gravel vacuum work?
Air is pumped into the side of an open ended tube one end of which is placed at the bottom of the tank. Air rises in water, so the rising air creats a collumn of rising water in the tube. A small material bag is placed at the top end of the tube and as the water flows into this bag it filters back into the tank. If the other end of the tube is moved around close to the mulm and rubbish on the (subtrata) bottom of the tank, the water flowing into the tube will lift the rubbish up the water column where it is filtered out and remains in the bag at the top for later removal.
