Freshwater Aquarium Setup Tips

The first step to keep fish thriving, healthy in your aquarium begins with setting up your aquarium freshwater. There are several items you need immediately, before you buy your fish. These include the aquarium, aquarium plants or gravel substrate, filter and filter parts, fake or live, the structures of the fish to hide, testing equipment for the monitoring of the nitrogen cycle in the aquarium, heat, light, power strip supply, vacuum tank, fish food, and some useful tools, like a fishing net, glass washer, and a bucket to be carried out around five gallons of water.

What size tank you get?

Hopefully, by the time they are ready to start setting up your freshwater aquarium, they have already studied the sizes and types of fish to keep. Some fish may be small – as little as an inch, while others may be thirteen or fourteen inches. Be realistic about the size of tank you will need. In fact, each fish requires about three to four gallons of water per inch in size. If you want to have large fish or schools of fish that you need a 50 gallon tank 100.

If you are a beginner is just beginning, try a tank of 10 to 20 gallons with small fish. You can always upgrade to a larger tank once you decide if you like a tank and you have the money to support the hobby. The first decision in shaping the freshwater aquarium is to decide where to place the tank. You have to have something to put in which will support its weight when full. Considering that each gallon of water weighs five pounds, make sure your table and floor can support the weight well. A 20-gallon tank weighs 200 pounds completely.

Where to put your aquarium

Place the aquarium in the right place is essential. Place an aquarium in direct sunlight can make it too hot, and also interrupt the cycle of light you want to create the proper lighting your tank. Place the tank in a place where you can get just normal, light filtered through the windows. Wash the tank thoroughly before doing anything inside. You can use water and salt, but no soap in the soap residue can kill fish.

Substrates are not all equal

Then get your medium (soil gravel), plants and records of other structures, such as washing or pieces of wood and all of them thoroughly. One way to clean the substrate is put into a paste and vegetables filter and water run through it. You can choose between three substrate sizes: small stones and pebbles, medium sized rocks and stones or large rocks that can cover much of the bottom of the tank. The best option is in the middle – sized rocks and pebbles. No matter what the substrate is, they all refer to it as gravel. Some types of substrate may affect the pH of the water. Stay away from slate, shell, onyx, lava stone, geodes, quartz, dolomite, limestone, and other similar substances.

Aquarium filled

Put your clean substrate in the aquarium and heater, plants and other structures. Wash all disease so they can not be transferred once the fish have been placed in the tank. Then install the freshwater aquarium is in the sense of filling the tank with water. Try using distilled water that has sat at room temperature. If you are using tap water and you have a city or town water supply, must add a chlorine remover aquarium each time before adding new water to the tank. Place the heater on the tank, which is adapted to the water temperature before turning it on (15 minutes) and then install the tank and hood light.

Patience is a virtue.

Plug everything and turn it on. And then be very patient. The aquarium has to go through a cycle of nitrogen, which may take six weeks. Then you need to test the pH level, ammonia level, nitrate and nitrite levels. If all are within range (see the test kit instructions for levels), you can start adding fish to the tank in pairs.

Remember that your tank may well be a lifetime hobby, so wait a little longer during the installation of the initial freshwater aquarium is actually a good thing because it will lead to healthy fish. You will need to continue to test the water for these chemical products forever, so that both fish and plants grow. Patience will bring many rewards, especially when you consider the amount of exercise you will see your fish.

About the Author

Kevin Smith has been in the freshwater aquarium hobby for over 30 years, and enjoys helping others get started in this amazing hobby. He’ll teach you too how to have a stunning and thriving freshwater aquarium, when you sign up for his FREE “The Ultimate Freshwater Aquariume-course at http://www.afreshwateraquarium.com

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