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A freshwater aquarium tank is awesome. They look great anywhere in your home, be it in the living room, dining room, bedroom, or even the kitchen! The swirls of colors from the fish and corals make it a very pleasing aesthetic piece which could calm you down even after a long day’s work.
However, getting one is not as simple as buying a table and chair set from the furniture store. The first thing you should remember before getting one is that having an aquarium is a responsibility. It is not a simple appliance that you just turn on when you’re in the room and turn off when you’re leaving. The fish and plants inside are living things that you should take care of, and that’s the responsibility that you should be aware of. It’s similar to having a dog, though the difference is that they’re a lot of small pets and that they’re in the water.
Next, you’ll have to decide on the size of your freshwater aquarium tank. It can’t be too small if you’re planning on having a whole school of fish inside, and it can’t be too big that you won’t have space in your house to fit it in. It would also be better if you’d prepare a corner in your house to fit the tank in, instead of figuring that out after you’ve purchased the tank and then you’d find out that the tank is too small, too big, or just doesn’t look right in the space where you could place it in.
The equipment you’d need would be the tank itself, a water heater/filter, the gravel/sand/plants, and the fish. You would have to wash out the equipment first with water – do not use soap or any cleansing agent. That could leave behind residue which is harmful to the fish. Once you’ve set up the tank, you can now fill the tank with water. So that you won’t disturb or displace the set-up that you’ve created, you can place a plate in the middle of the tank and let the water fall onto there. That would prevent splashes which could destroy the set-up, as the water would only spill to the sides.
After the aquarium has been set-up with the plants, you can’t put in the fish yet! You’d have to wait until the nitrogen cycle of the plants has cycled at least once. There are chemicals and products which you could purchase to speed it up, and once that’s done, you could now put in your fish. Add the fish two at a time, and slowly so that they could get accustomed to the temperature and pH level of the water, and also so that the ecosystem you created could adjust to the additional load of having two more living things. This is important to reduce the stress of the fish, so that they wouldn’t die easily.
Now, you have your freshwater aquarium tankup and running. The responsibility that you have in your hands is real, but the pleasure of taking care of it and enjoying the fruit of your labours is very rewarding.
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