You decided to have fish in the aquarium, but do not know where to start? Then, first of all, you need to find out what you need in the aquarium for beginners, what kind of fish it is better to settle into an aquarium and how to take care of them.
Contents of the aquarium for beginners
Your aquarium will look beautiful, and the fish will be healthy and vigorous, only if inside the tank everything is in a stable biological balance. There is a certain pattern: the larger the volume of the aquarium, the easier it is for the fish to live in and easier to care for. For a standard apartment, an aquarium with a volume of about 50 liters will be optimal. In this case, the aquarium should not be too narrow and high. It is better to buy a home aquarium for beginners, made of thick glass or acrylic. The aquarium should have a cover in which lighting will be installed. Most often these are fluorescent lamps.
For normal life of the aquarium, you need a pump that will feed oxygen into the tank and simultaneously filter the water in the aquarium. It will be necessary to care for the aquarium various devices for cleaning the soil and walls of the aquarium, a thermometer and, if necessary, a heater. Various tests are also available to monitor water parameters.
In order for fish to live comfortably in the aquarium, and the tank itself looked attractive, it is necessary to purchase a background for the aquarium, and also to choose the right soil and aquarium plants.
To install a home aquarium for beginners, you need a curbstone or a small table that can withstand the weight of the aquarium.
Fish in the aquarium for beginners
Experts advise to populate the aquarium for beginners with fish, which are not demanding in care. These include viviparous sword-bearers, mollies, pecilia, guppies. Inhabit small aquariums and spawning fish. This and Sumatran barbs, and zebrafish, and larger fish of the scalar , and parrots. Beautiful bright neonchiki will look beautiful in the aquarium.
You can buy a fish sucker antsitrus. This indispensable cleaner of aquariums will eat from the plants and walls of the tank green algae build-up, the remains of the food and, thus, take care of the purity of your aquarium. It will help to keep the aquarium clean and such a fish as a catfish corridor, which lives at the bottom of the tank and loosens the soil, looking for food there for themselves.
Do not overdo by choosing fish for your aquarium. Beginning aquarists should remember that overpopulation of the aquarium is by no means impossible. This will immediately affect the health of your fish. Therefore, do not buy just a lot of fish, and when buying each fish, be sure to ask the seller what size this or that individual can grow.
Counting how many fish can fit in your aquarium, remember that for a single fish about 7 cm in length you need 3 to 5 liters of aquarium volume.
It is better not to buy expensive and rare fish at first, because they can be overfed for inexperience, which is very dangerous for their life. And in the first place, it can be killed by overfeeding of valuable fish.
It should not be populated in one fish tank, very different in their behavior.
First, you should avoid the acquisition of fish that are difficult to maintain. These include fish such as black paku, which from a small fish with a beautiful coloring grows to a length of 40 cm and has a weight of up to 4 kg. A beautiful and bright two-color Labeo is a territorial fish that does not tolerate the neighborhood of another fish, similar in color. We need a huge aquarium and for a predatory black and orange fish, an astronotus that eats everything that it gets into its mouth. Very aggressive and beautiful African cichlids, which are also not suitable for a beginner aquarist.