How Do You Care For Tropical Fish?
• Do your homework on that special, certain fish you have your heart set on. • Once you’re done, buy your equipment. Not the fish. • Get home, and rinse your tank. Harmful chemicals could be in there. • Rinse your substrate and put it in the tank. (If you plan to have some bottom dwellers and other kinds of fish, put patches of sand in there, so their delicate barbels won’t get infected.) • Fill your tank halfway with water. Put a bowl in the bottom of the fish tank and pour into that. It will keep your landscape design from getting messed up. • Make an Aquascape! Be creative and try different combinations with your decor. • Insert your heater and filter. • Fill the rest of your tank up. • Let your water sit for 10 minutes. • After 10 minutes, put your Water Conditioner in. • Wait another 15 minutes after you put in the Water Conditioner. • After 15 minutes, put in your Bacteria Supplement. • Begin to cycle your tank. An internet search for fishless cycling will bring up a guide. It is
