Your First Aquarium
Choosing the right equipment decorations and plants when setting up a new aquarium is vital to achieving good results and healthy fish. Your goal should be to closely match the conditions in your aquarium to the natural environment your fish came from. | Aquarium Fish Diseases 1
As with any other type of animal diseases can be a problem with your tropical or salt water fish. The good news is many problems can be prevented before they take hold. |
Aquarium Fish Diseases 2
In addition to the common fish diseases we discussed in a different article. There are a few others that you should be aware of. | Aquarium Fish Keeping
Aquarium fish keeping is America's second most favorite hobby. It has outranked such popular pastimes as stamp collecting and gardening. |
Aquarium Lighting
One of the most common questions asked regarding lighting is how much do you need. That will depend on a number of different factors. | Aquarium Plants
Aquarium plants are no different than any other plant in that they still need certain things to grow. Things like light, CO2, nutrients and trace elements are all required for aquatic plants to grow. |
Choosing An Aquarium
Before you choose your first fish to put in your aquarium, you obviously need to choose an aquarium. If this is your first aquarium, you may want to go with a 5 gallon aquarium until you have more experience keeping fish. | Curing Live Rock And Sand
Whether you buy pre-cured or uncured live rock, some die back will occur during the shipping process. Therefore, your live rock will need to be cured again before it is placed in the aquarium that contains your fish, corals, or other marine animals. |
Feeding Saltwater Fish
What has been learned about good feeding practices for freshwater fish, applies to salt water specimens in spades. It is extremely important not to overfeed saltwater fish, because this is one of the major causes of pollution. | Feeding Your Freshwater Fish
There are basically two types of food for your fish, dried foods and live foods. In a broader sense, the latter includes a fresh frozen food now generally available. |
Freshwater Aquarium Fish
There are so many freshwater aquarium fish available, that you could write a book just on that subject alone. In fact, many have. So we will just cover some the more common species of fish available for your freshwater aquarium here. | Getting A Saltwater Aquarium
Ready For Fish
Now that your saltwater aquarium has completed the cycling process is time to get ready to add the fish. First however, you will need to perform some basic cleaning tasks. |
Saltwater Aquarium Fish
There are many varieties of saltwater aquarium fish that you can add to your aquarium. All of them are very colorful and a joy to watch. | Saltwater Aquarium Setup
Setting up a saltwater aquarium is not the nightmare that it once used to be. Went to a planned out your system and purchase all the equipment and supplies you need, you can follow these simple steps to get your new salt water aquarium up and running. |
Selecting Healthy Saltwater
Aquarium Fish
When you pick out fish for your saltwater aquarium, you may want to be sure, that you are getting healthy ones. Most dealers will not knowingly sell a sick fish, but unfortunately, even with the best of intentions mistakes can be made. So it is best that you know what to look for. | The Aquarium Nitrogen Cycle
All living creatures give off waste, fish are no exception. These waste products which are nitrogen base break down into ammonia, which naturally is highly toxic, to just about all fish. In the wild, the volume of water per fish is very high in waste products become diluted to very low concentrations. |
Water Filtration
There are three basic types of water filtration available for your aquarium. They are mechanical filtration, chemical filtration, and biological filtration. | Site Map |
