How to equip a fresh-water aquarium

How to equip a fresh-water aquarium.

First of all for aquarium arrangement the aquarium is necessary. How it to choose read here . So, after the aquarium at us is, it is necessary to think of that who at us will float or live there and than it is possible to equip it. That it is easier to think, it is possible to imagine as the natural fresh-water reservoir looks. There there is a ground, plants, the elementary organisms, molluscs and certainly fishes. Certainly it not everything, but that necessary minimum, that we will need to reproduce in the aquarium to create steady ecological system which could function less long more without our intervention.

the Ground . Any ground with the sizes of granules 2 - 5 mm can be considered as an ideal ground. In smaller ground or in sand roots of plants will quickly rot and by that the ground filtration will be broken. The ground consisting of the big stones will long accumulate silt, and all nutrients quickly to be washed away by the filter. The height of a ground for average aquariums about 50 l is sufficient within 5 see

Plants . Universal planting of plants it is possible to name such when high and dark plants land along back and lateral walls, and in the centre any beautiful low bush or group of plants with sufficient space for swimming of fishes. It is possible to use and floating plants, but they should be cut off often enough, differently they will close access to light to plants from below if certainly at you lateral illumination is not realised.

Illumination . For aquarium illumination artificial light or their combination can be used both natural, and. Try not to put an aquarium near to a window on which direct beams of the sun fall, walls will acquire very quickly green seaweed. If all the same decide to put an aquarium on a window I recommend to paste over with a lightproof foil lateral and back walls. Luminescent, mercury lamps and usual lamps can be applied to artificial illumination. Capacity of lamps approximately can be defined from calculation: 1,5-2 Vt/l - for simple lamps, 0,5-1 Vt/l - for luminescent and mercury lamps. It is more preferable than a lamp in the decorative relation that they not only create visibility of natural illumination, but also can warm up water in that place where are directed.

Heating . For arrangement cold an aquarium basically can approach and a room temperature, but here for a tropical aquarium it is necessary to maintain temperature about 25-30 degrees. Heaters are for this purpose necessary. I recommend to get heaters with a temperature regulator which will automatically maintain necessary temperature in an aquarium.

Filters . For some fishes can approach and usual water from under the crane, but others are very exacting to quality of water, namely to its chemical compound, concentration in it of oxygen. For water treating it is necessary to use special filters which there was in the market a huge set. Most simple of them - spongy. Correctly picked up ground too is the filter. To enrichment of water by oxygen apply аэраторы or compressors which can be used as independently, and as a part of filters. Аэраторы create water circulation in an aquarium, thereby facilitating gas exchange with an environment and providing functioning of filters.

Fishes . Here all depends on that whom you wish to contain, but approximately density of planting of fishes it is possible to define proceeding from a parity of length of a body of fish of 1 sm on 1 l of water in an aquarium.

Author: Vyacheslav Ladanov

Date: 2009-09-21

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