How Do You Setup A 30 Gallon Freshwater Aquarium?
You will learn how to setup a 30-gallon freshwater aquarium, manage the 1st Cycle, stock it half-way with fish, and care for and maintain your new underwater ecosystem. Part 5: Maintenance Water Changes Water changes are critical to the survival of your fish. As you have already learned in Part 2, the ammonia produced by fish causes the Nitrogen Cycle to occur, a natural cleaning process. However, it can only clean up so much. In essence, the fish pollute the water, and if it gets too dirty then the fish will die. The most important thing you can do (besides feed and love your fish, of course!) is change the water in the tank when it gets too dirty. Changing the water is no different than changing a baby’s diaper, scooping the cat’s litter box or taking your dog outside to go potty. The good news is, cleaning the fish tank can be done way less often! When to Change the Water As you have probably heard from other books or pet store salespeople, you should change one-quarter of the water
You will learn how to setup a 30-gallon freshwater aquarium, manage the 1st Cycle, stock it half-way with fish, and care for and maintain your new underwater ecosystem. Part 3: Get Your Fish Choose Your Fish As noted in Part 1, there are thousands of species of tropical fish. How do you decide which kind to get for your home aquarium? Four important things to consider when choosing between species of fish are visual appeal (looks), compatibility with others (attitude), full-grown size (inches long), and nutritional requirements (plants/meat). Their hardiness is also taken into consideration because the most discouraging thing for beginners is to loose a fish friend right off the bat. There are endless combinations of fish that can work for you–too many to include in this article! However, based on generalized statistics of fish sizes and attitudes, I will give you several samples of fish combinations that you could put in your new 30-gallon freshwater tank. Only stocking your tank abo
