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The aquarium is something that you have decided that you want to have, so that’s the next step. Before you buy any fish for your aquarium, make a list of things you want to have. Keep an aquarium and you’ll need to be patient. To be fair, though, you can’t go into a pet store and start picking fish right away. Take a trip to the pet store to get information and look around to figure out what kind of fish you want to keep in your tank. Carefully look into these fish to make sure they can live in the water and eat the food they need. Be careful not to put the prey and the predator in the same tank at the same time. When you buy fish, keep in mind that freshwater fish are more durable than marine fish, and they will be less affected by changes in the water.

One reason that freshwater fish are more durable than saltwater fish is that saltwater itself is more durable. A fish’s body needs water to work properly, just like any other living thing. Water is absorbed through a fish’s skin in freshwater.

Saltwater fish, on the other hand, have to drink salt water because their body fluids are taken through their skin by osmosis. The salt is then flushed out in the form of very concentrated urine. They are good for someone who doesn’t know how to keep fish in an aquarium because there is more leeway when it comes to the water. Some freshwater fish have a range of water temperatures that they can live in that can go up to ten degrees. However, most tropical fish can only tolerate about two degrees of change in water temperature, so this is not the case for them.

If you’re a new fish keeper, you’re not alone in getting discouraged. Water is hard to control, and fish, even those that live in freshwater, aren’t the toughest animals. Sometimes they don’t make it through these changes. It’s important to be patient when you do things. It must be running for at least 24 hours before you add any fish. Decor and plants in the tank may need to run and filter for a few days before you add fish. Decor and any substrate should be cleaned very well before being added to the aquarium, so be sure to do that.

New aquariums should have live plants in them because they will help to grow good bacteria that will help to reduce the amount of ammonia in the tank. Test the levels of ammonia and nitrite in the aquarium before you put fish in it to make sure they are safe. Add only three or four small fish at first. A general rule is to wait another 30 days before adding more fish because that’s when most fish illnesses start to grow. In addition, check the levels of nitrite and ammonia in the water before you add these new fish. Amounts of ammonia should go back to zero. This also takes a month.

Keep fish healthy with a few simple rules. Don’t feed the fish too much. Any extra food in the tank will become debris, which will then turn into ammonia, which is bad for the fish if they eat it. Change the water in the aquarium often. A third of the water should be changed out of the tank every two to three weeks. This will keep the fish in the aquarium as calm as possible, so they won’t have to be taken out of the tank. Finally, don’t forget to clean your filter. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions, because some filters need to be changed more often than others.

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