I had no idea about aquariums, but now I have a little one at home and it’s working!!!! I haven’t been traveling in my holidays, and that’s the reason why I have had enough time to spend with the aquarium, and I want to share my amateur knowledge with you: First of all you have to know if you want cold or hot water fish, and then buy the fish tank (ask the seller, and explain what kind of fish do you want). It’s worst to buy a small tank than a big one, I have one of 45 litters (it is enough) with filter and thermometer.
When you have the recipient you have to buy the sand (better sand about
This part is exciting but a little bored because you have to wash the sand with lots of water till it is clean. Then put the sand inside the fish tank (situated in the correct future place), put the filter and the thermometer, and finally, the decoration.
The water that the seller recommend us was “aigua de Ribes” of 5 litters. Put a bowl into the tank on the sand and fill in with the water (try to put the water in the bowl, if not, the sand will be removed). When you have the water at half level, plant the seaweeds where you want, and continue putting water till the mark of the filter, when you finish, take out the bowl. Your aquarium have to stay one week or more with the filter on and without fishes, to make the cycle of the nitrates and nitrites.
When the week passed, catch some aquarium’s water and let it to analyzing in the fish shop. If the water it is ok, buy the fishes!!!! (I recommend to buy few and many resistant fishes at first). To introduce the fishes into the aquarium, first put the plastic bag with the fishes inside the aquarium water during 5 minutes so that the fish are at the temperature of the water. Afterwards make holes with a needle in the plastic bag, that it is still under the water, because they keep on adapting themselves to the water of your fish tank, and finally go breaking the bag until they go out alone. The fishes eat ones a day.
We made it like this and they haven’t died yet!
