Aquarium and fish care for beginners

Caring for an aquarium and fish for beginners can seem a challenge, but if you approach everything consistently, then even a large aquarium without previous experience will not be too difficult.

Aquarium and care for it - tips for beginners

Those who just decided to start an aquarium face a huge choice of shapes, sizes, and also with a wide variety of adaptations to maintain the biobalance in the aquarium. Choose the size and shape you need, based on your own preferences and capabilities. It is only necessary to take into account that in very small aquariums it is much harder to maintain the necessary conditions, water spills faster in them, temperature jumps are possible. It is better to choose aquariums of medium or large size. Minimally necessary equipment for the beginning of the arrangement of the aquarium: soil, water filter, thermometer, oxygen water enrichment compressor, fish net, aquarium light and siphon. Plants placed in the aquarium can be artificial (usually these are acquired if the fish that are planned to be introduced can eat live algae) and live. Water for the aquarium should be further cleaned before placing it in a vessel. When the aquarium is already inhabited, it is necessary to maintain the formed ecosystem in it, changing only part of the water from time to time.

Care for aquarium fish for beginners

What you need to know for beginners who decide to start an aquarium depends on what kinds of fish are planned to contain. Each species has special requirements for water, its temperature, diet, the population of other fish in the aquarium. It is necessary to choose those species that live in nature under similar conditions. It is better for beginners to acquire types of fish that are not aggressive in nature and resistant to diseases, as well as fluctuations in water composition. The most common and simple in care are cichlids , guppies, swordfolds, vailehvosts, various types of catfish. What should be feared for beginner fish breeders, so it's overpopulation of the aquarium. After all, I want to get as many beautiful and different fish as possible, but in cramped conditions they begin to ache and even die. Also it is necessary to pay attention to feeding. In this matter it is better to underfeed than overfeed. Fish can safely live without food and two days, but the abundance of undernourished food leads to rapid turbidity of water and reproduction of bacteria.