Preface
Setting up and caring for an aquarium requires special knowledge and skills that beginner aquarists usually do not possess, and experienced aquarists often encounter unexpected situations that require specific actions based on an understanding of the processes that occur in the aquarium as a living ecosystem. A newly equipped aquarium can initially meet your desires, expectations and ideas. And then, gradually, imperceptibly, various changes begin, both pleasing and distressing. Fish, plants, and other living inhabitants of the aquarium actively interact with the environment. By consuming food, absorbing oxygen, releasing waste products, changing, they change the environment.
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Motto: Be inquisitive friends of aquarium life!
This motto can only be true if you learn to understand and evaluate the current, everyday processes occurring in the aquarium as a fragile, closed living ecosystem, processes that can change rapidly and lead to irreparable consequences – illnesses and even death of your beloved aquatic pets . Learn to make good decisions about what needs to be done to ensure a balanced and sustainable daily aquarium life, long-term preservation of pleasing beauty, healthy aquarium life. Beginning amateurs are often lost, don’t know what to do, and take the wrong actions, leading to irreparable, often sad, consequences. those who discourage keeping aquarium fish and engaging in aquarium farming.
Maintenance of the aquarium. The main commandment of keeping an aquarium.
Excess is always harmful!
Impatience and haste are the worst enemies of the aquarium and aquarium life. It may seem to you that the plants are not growing fast enough, and the fish are growing slowly. You generously fertilize the soil in the aquarium with mineral fertilizers, hoping to help the growth of plants and fish, but in reality you disrupt the natural development processes that alone can keep the aquarium impeccably clean and beautiful.
The aquarium should be maintained only as needed. The less time and effort you spend on it, the better. It is important to remember that any excessive intervention in the internal life of the aquarium can disrupt the natural biological processes, cause disturbance to the fish and inhibit the growth of plants.
Too much feeding is the cause of most aquarium problems. Turbidity and spoilage of water, uncontrolled development of algae, indigestion of fish and their disease – all this can be a consequence of excessive, abundant feeding.
So. If there is something wrong in your aquarium, then the reason for this, most often, is not in the aquarium animals and plants, but in the lack of knowledge and skills in maintaining an aquarium, the ability to maintain a stable balance of aquarium life.
Knowledge and understanding of the processes occurring in the aquarium
General views
To successfully maintain an aquarium, it is very important to create a habitat for the fish that is similar to the one in which they lived in natural conditions for millions of years. The foundations for such an environment are laid when installing the aquarium. Water parameters can be easily adjusted if the fish inhabiting the aquarium come from the same natural environment. This is the first very important and essential condition for maintaining an aquarium.
If you stocked the aquarium with fish from different places of origin, then they may require completely different water. This will make caring for the inhabitants of the aquarium extremely difficult and can make it almost impossible. Fish, plants and decorative elements go well together if you decide to recreate a piece of the underwater world of the Amazon, African lakes of Malawi and Tanganyika, African rivers, reservoirs of Thailand and China. It is in these places that the vast majority of fish and plants that usually populate aquariums live. However, very rarely do we ask questions about the original habitats of the beautiful fish we purchase.
Fish require similar water parameters as a key habitat corresponding to the chosen biotope. The German zoologist Ernst Haeckel proposed the terms “biotope” and “ecology” in his book “General Morphology of Organisms” back in 1866. E. Haeckel emphasized the importance of the habitat as the basis for the existence of organisms, explaining that the biotope of a particular ecosystem is formed by environmental factors and the interaction of living organisms living in it.
Biotopes
The term “biotope” (in Greek bios – life, topos – place) refers to a habitat defined by the specific living conditions of organisms. These basic conditions include water, soil, plants, temperature, light, method of nutrition, etc.
The term biotope, unfamiliar and practically unknown to many beginning amateur aquarists, is well known to advanced aquarists who widely use the term “biotope aquarium”. Have you ever come across such a mysterious phrase?
A biotope aquarium is an artificially created example of a certain natural ecosystem of a reservoir (lake, river, pond, etc.), in which all natural conditions are sought to be observed, a copy of a water area created in an aquarium in which living organisms live.
There are five main types of biotope aquariums.
The Amazon River biotope is characterized by dark water color, which is explained by humic acids and tannins, high water acidity (5-6.5 pH), water hardness in the range of 3-10 dGH, temperature – 25-28°C. To give the water in the aquarium a dark color, natural ingredients with a high tannin content are used – peat, coconut fiber, oak, beech and almond leaves. Driftwood is important.
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