At the “aquarium beginning” is brainwork demanded

At the “aquarium beginning” is brainwork demanded by Niki Buchen.

Info and tips for aquarium begginers.

Bevor I start, I want to make clear what I write is only a suggestion and should help you to get maybe an other point of view to the topic aquarium and fish. I also do not want to get to deep in details like how to count a ph-value. One reason is that I am too lazy to look for each technical term in english. As you allready could read I am not an english native speaker. One more thing about these articles of mine – everybody who has something constructive to say to the aquarium topic I wellcome. Well and now let us start. The next thing is bevor you have an aquarium bought is the question where do you put this aquarium and how big should it be? Well by the size I only can say a bigger aquarium is more stable with the water chemie. Which means your mistakes by handling with the aquarium will not be so dramatically big as by a small one. The size also depends from how much money you can spend for your hobby. Aquarium with 400 liter for example can cost much money even if you save money by the equipment like light, water heater or ph equipment. You can spend thousands of dollar by getting an aquarium with fitment which will match your furniture in your appartment. But you also can choose the cheap way with only an iron bay and a glas aquarium. Where do you want to put the aquarium? By the entry that every person who visit you can see your piece of jewellery? I think for you a nice place but on the fish side you will have scared fishes. The minimum if you insist to put an aquarium to a place very much activity is, is that your fish has the possibility to hid. Another thing is that an aquarium needs time after time your service by changing water and putting out dead things like plants and fish or changing the filter material. And it is a good thing if a water connection is not far away. I guess if you have a 400 liter aquarium and you change the water with a tub you will not do it very often and loose fun to have an aquarium. It is also nice if you have choosen a place where you can sit down and look after your fish because it can be so calmative to look in an aquarium. It is also very nice if you wake up with the light of your aquarium, I love it, do not ask me why but I do :-). The place is no good if your aquarium stands on parquet because even if you take care very much by changing water it will be that you will loose some water and this water will find its way to the parquet. It is not nice if you come home and the floor is wet and one day later your parquet make “waves” -I had this bad experience by my own! One very important thing is how much weight is all together? Water itselve is not light, same with glas, sand or stones or wood. Would not be good if you brake with your aquarium down to  your neighbour  under you if have one. Next time I want to write about starting and decoration of an aquarium.

Greetings,

Niki Buchen

20 pieces to a health and nice aquarium

20 pieces to a health and nice aquarium by niki Buchen.

Info and tips for a health and nice aquarium.

One of my hobbies is fish and aquarium and all what belong to this. I think it is more then 25 years ago that I started with it. My first aquarium was a 110 liter glas aquarium with a goldfish. I immediately fall in love with this hobby and decided to buy more fish but a goldfish is a cold water fish and the new one were warm water fish. So my goldfish got a friend of mine and I bought some barbs, Sumatra barbs to be exact. Well these fish were my real first one but even these I didnt keeped for a long time. One day I think nearly one week after buying they were all dead. I bought them in an aquarium shop and got ill fish who had Ichties. This is an illness which can be seen by white points on the body of the fish. Well it was hard for me (I think for the fish much more) but I did not stopped with a defeat. I wanted to be sucessfull by taking care of fish. So my next fish were 6 Scalar (it is a swarmfish and so I took 6 pieces) and I think about 10 Neon fish (also a swarmfish) beause they were so colorful. Neon fish and Scalar I did not bought in the same aquarium shop. For the ground floor I bought 2 Ancistrus (dolichopterus) beause the stuff of the aquarium shop told me that they were good for alga but this another story. So I had total 28 fish. But time after time they got less and the strange thing was only the Neon fish were disappeared. I looked under the aquarium table if a fish was jumped out but I did not have seen one. What happend? Did the pump sucked these small fish away or the died and I did not found them because of the size? So I started every morning when I looked in my aquarium fish and ups one more left. I had no idea were they were and so I went to an aquarium shop and asked what the reason will be for the disappearing of my fish. I answered many questions and then we came to the point which fish I have in my aquarium and bingo, the Scalars were the bad and hungry guys. Yea a newby as I was should first ask and then decide what to do/buy. What ever I still had 5 pieces of Neon and so I bought another 5 pieces and a new 60 liter aquarium for them. So I owned 2 aquariums after 2 weeks but this is nothing – I dont want to tell you how much I have now :-). After splitting Neon fish from the Scalars no Neon fish disappeared. Well this was my “aquarium start”. I told you this to show you that it is not bad to get some informations before you start with this hobby. In my next stories I want to explain step by step what you have to do and consider if you plan to own an aquarium.

Greetings, Niki Buchen