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Tips On Buying Fish
When I first started the aquarium hobby, I was not successful; when ever I buy some new fish they sometime get diseases or they die.
Here are some tips on adding new fish to your aquarium:
1. While you are at the pet store check the fishes if its active (note: some fish are shy), has no weird spots or something is weird on it and if you see an aquarium in a pet store that a fish is infested with disease and another fish isn’t don’t buy from that aquarium, find another aquarium to buy from.
2. Put your fish into a quarantine tank for 24-72 Hours. Then check for diseases after 48 hours and their appetite if they eat anything (please note that some are shy). After you know the fish is healthy, you can add them to your main aquarium.
3. Your main and quarantine aquarium should be the same and steady temperature of 26-28 C (78-82.4F). Unsteady temperature could lead to stress or fatal. So keep the temperature steady. Keeping the water parameter steady is another thing on buying new fish. Your PH should be around 7.0-7.6PH.
4. When transport the fish to your home aquarium from the pet store please ask the pet store if they have any fish box that use to ship it to the pet store or if they don’t have any ask them for a double layer bag. (Applies during Winter) During the summer when buying fish drive home immediately because the water temperature in the bag could rise.
5. When you get home float the bag for 15-20 Minutes and then use a net get your fish out from the bag. Please do not add the water that the bag contains because it could contain bacteria that may harm your fish.
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Article Of The Month (August)
Aquarium Maintenance
Cleaning your aquarium is not that hard if you have the right tools.
What do you need?
1. Aquarium Sponge(Must be safe for fish)
2. Gravel Vacuum
3. Water Conditioner(When using water conditioner use the half of the recommended amount. For example it says 5 gallons per tease spoon or squirt. Use only 1 squirt or 1 tease spoon because water conditioner may sometimes spike your ammonia up.
4. Bacteria Supplement(Most Bacteria Supplement recommended dosage is 1 tease spoon per 10 gallons if your is different please follow your bottle instruction.
5. Fish Net(For netting out dead leaves)
6. Bucket(The one that uses a bucket(Shown on the top)) (If you have a Python(shown on the left), you don’t need one.)
First clean the aquarium glass with a sponge first to remove any algae. Then use the Gravel Vacuum to suck up any debris and to change the water. Then readd water to the aquarium. Then treat the aquarium water with water conditioner and bacteria supplement. The fish net is for netting out dead leaves from your aquarium.
Cleaning the Filter
You can clean the filter out by using the water you removed from the aquarium clean it.
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