How to make your aquarium

If you are an admirer of the aquarium you may think that to make sea water aquarium will surely make your pockets drained away ..., but if we are good at sorting and of course often diligent search for information of course we can all News.

Presenting a fantastic sea view into the favorite room in the house will certainly be aternatif to relieve stress. to start this hobby takes perseverance and our willingness to set aside time to take care of our aquarium regularly.

In the beginning you need a minimum aquarium size 60 cm by 30 cm wide and about 40 cm tall, if you are able to create your own aquarium would be more cost effective. With the size of your aquarium they will need about 4-5 gallons of sea water, for the initial setup you can put the live rock 2-3 boulders are arranged according to your tastes.

As for the additional equipment that I use include: undergravel firter 1 set of size 60 cm, power filter size variation of 2 pieces, size 10 watt T5 lamps with, like a lamp JEBO with actinic size of 60 cm, a timer to regulate the flow out of the powerhead .

Materials to Make Aquarium

In making the aquarium, you will need the following materials.

* Glass with a thickness of 3-16 mm, depending on needs.
* Diamond glass cutters, used to cut glass. This tool can be found at hardware stores or large supermarkets.
* Special glass glue, this glue used to glue the glass.
* Duct Tape, used to help piece glass aquarium stand upright when dried.
* Stone shavings, used to smooth the edges of the glass.
* Ruler of iron, used as a gauge glass.
* Markers, are used to mark the pattern tank.

Steps to Make Aquarium

1. Determining the Size of Aquarium

Use a ruler to measure length and height glass aquarium you want. Make five pieces of glass, bottom, front, rear, right side, and left. The front and rear glass is made the same size, so too the right and left. However, the size of the glass front and sides are made different. Typically, the glass front is longer than the side.

2. Glass Cutting

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To cut emissions, require special skills. If in doubt, cut it or do not have a glass cutter, you can use glazier service. However, if more comfortable doing it yourself, you can cut the glass according to the size you want.

To facilitate cutting glass parts, glass surface should be marked with markers and a ruler. The established pattern can be directly deducted.

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3. Smooth Glass

Brush the edges or rim of glass with a whetstone until the edge of the glass becomes smooth.

4. Preparing Glass Pieces

In order to more easily work on this tank, you can arrange the five pieces of glass on a flat area that had been cleaned. Leave a gap of about 1 cm for every piece of glass.

5. Cleaning Glass

Make sure the glass surface clean of all dirt, especially the part that will be bonded with glue. To clean it, you can use a liquid cleanser, such as acetone.

6. Shaping Aquarim

This requires precision and accuracy to shape it. Begin stringing the tank with pieces of glass together using glue. Then, the tank is dried first. Minimal drying time is 1 day.

With a strong glue for glue and shape does not change or shift aquarium and can stand upright, you can use duct tape on each end of the aquarium.

If the artificial aquarium you are finished, the next step is to test the robustness of the aquarium. The test can be done by putting water into the tank for 24 hours. Then, consider whether there are parts that leak.

If there were no leaks, then you succeed with your work. Furthermore, you can simply decorate the tank and install complementary, such as filters, lights, bubbles, sand, and of course your favorite fish.

Tips and tricks expands Nanoreef Aquarium Hobby:

1. Always replace the sea water at least 10% every week.

2. Do not rush to enter into the organism because the aquarium marine aquarium takes the process to the process of recycling (recycle) of at least 20 days.

3. supplements notice that you add into the aquarium, try not too excessive.

4. note the temperature of the water, try not to exceed the max limit of 28 degrees Celsius, if necessary add a small fan.

5. without the chiller and skimmer aquarium you could survive the turn of the new water you run the routine.

6. careful in buying an aquarium inhabitants.

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Clownfish family and Clown fish life

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When hearing the name of clown fish, in memory of people will tend to imagine the figure named latin fish Amphiprion ocellaris (Figure 1). Nevertheless, the clown fish is actually comprised of not less than 29 species (Table 1). They all look gorgeous and funny. Twenty-eight species of clown fish is a species of the genus Amphiprion, while one species is a species of the genus Premnas (Figure 2). Premnas has a special characteristic, namely a "thorn" preoperkularis found under her eyes.

Figure 1      Amphiprion ocellaris

Figure 2    Premnas biaculeatus

All of this type is the family of Pomacentridae. Thus, if traced back they were still brothers with groups such as the damselfish Chromis, Chrysiptera, and Dascyllus.

Table 1. Clown Fish Family

Amphiprion akallopisos	Amphiprion mccullochi
Amphiprion akindynos	Amphiprion melanopus
Amphiprion allardi	Amphiprion nigrisep
Amphiprion bicinctus	Amphiprion ocellaris
Amphiprion chagosensi	Amphiprion omanensis
Amphiprion chrysogaster	Amphiprion percula
Amphiprion chrysoptarus	Amphiprion perideraion
Amphiprion clarkii	Amphiprion polymnus
Amphiprion ephippium	Amphiprion rubrocintus
Amphiprion frenatus	Amphiprion sandraracinos
Amphiprion fuscocaudatus	Amphiprion sebae
Amphiprion latezonatus	Amphiprion thiellei
Amphiprion latifasciatus	Amphiprion tricinctus
Amphiprion leukokranos	Premnas biaculeatus

In general, small clown fish. Maximum they can reach the size of 10-15 cm. Brightly colored, body width (height), and comes with a small mouth. Relatively large scales with a unique dorsal fin. Color pattern on this fish is often used as a basis for their identification process, in addition to tooth shape, head and body shape. Color variations may occur in the same species, especially with regard to the location of its spread. For example A clarkii is a species that has spread most widely, so that these species have the most color variation (depending on where found) compared to other species of clown fish.

Known clown fish is a fish that has a relatively wide spread of areas, particularly in the area around the Indo Pacific. One species, namely A. bicinctus, known to be endemic to the Red Sea. They are, in general, found in lagoon-lagoon around rocky reefs, or on koastal area with a depth of less than 50 meters and the water clearly. In the waters of Papua New Guinea, clown fish can be found no less than 8 species.

In nature, clown fish eat zooplankton, crustaceans and algae levels found in their habitat.

MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP

The popularity of clown fish are not separated from simbiosisnya behavior with various types of anemones. Anemones, which for other types of fish poisoning, the clown fish is a safe haven and comfortable. Clown fish are often found hiding, covered, and chatting amongst anemone tentacles are poisonous-tentalel.

In nature, the presence of a clown fish in anemones to protect them from aggression several types of fish such as butterfly-angle or fish that would prey on tentacles. Instead use the anemone clown fish as a refuge from natural enemies. Without the protection of the anemone, clown fish can survive only a few minutes just before devoured by the enemy.

Living together between two very different kinds of creatures that are often used as an example of harmonious coexistence

Clown fish often perform cleanup tasks on the anemone's body is by picking up the crumbs of food, or other debris so the body can be free anemones of various types of parasites. Meanwhile, a clown fish themselves often brought food to the anemone.

As with other marine dwellers, clown fish do not actually have the ability to fight toxins from sea anemones. However they have a sniper tactics how to cope with these toxins. Anemone tentacles lined by mucous that has specific content to protect it from another sting tentacles or stung by the tentacles themselves. Mucus is utilized by the clown fish to protect the body from tentekal anemone sting. Clown fish can survive a few moments to the sting tentacles before paralysis. Degan rubbed his way quickly to the tentacles of a clown fish can be rubbed all over her body with tentacles antisengat mucus. Within an hour a clown fish will be memenyelimuti entire body with antisengat mucus, so that eventually he will be immune to the sting tentacles altogether. Thus, they eventually will secure beramain and are among the tentacles of anemones. At night they often sleep with it wrapped in the tentacles.

When separated from the anemone clown fish for several hours, they will immediately lose immunity. And to become resistant again they need to adapt and take time as mentioned above.

Each type of clown fish has certain criteria in choosing its anemone. Therefore, when buying an anemone fish would be nice to know first the types if desired anemone clown fish species that will be purchased. Table 2 shows the relationship between the type of clown fish with anemone favorite. With this table are expected to facilitate in choosing the appropriate type of anemone with clown fish who want to own.

Polyandry?

Unlike other types of fish, clown fish mating behavior show the opposite properties. If the other fish, it takes several females to one male, in fact one female clown fish has several male.

Known clown fish can change sex. In addition, they have a strict social hierarchy. In one colony of clown fish that live in the anemone, usually consisting of one adult female dominant male and several smaller, and some young clown fish. These young fish are all male sex.

If the female dies or disappears, the biology of adult male will change sex to female. Changes will mate for two weeks or more. Then the largest and oldest male that there will be a partner. Such strategy is known to maintain the continuation of the existence of these clown fish species. In this case the males are widowed females do not need to seek other females away. As is known, in nature, clown fish can not live his anemon more than a few yards just to find another female.

Clown fish eggs can produce 300-700 eggs. Eggs on the rocks under the cloak anemone. Eggs will be guarded by male clowns until they hatch. Eggs will generally hatch after six or seven days. The next seed would "become" planton and drifting sea. After 15 days adrift, eating and growing, seed will grow up a young clown and get ready to find anemones as his home.

Cultivation Oscar Fish

Oscar fish is a freshwater fish species from the Amazon river, Panama, Paraguay and Tio-Rio-Negro South America, and sudapat developed culture in Indonesia.

Oscar Fish has an interesting shape and color. Blackish body color with yellow batikan reddish. Unlike other fish, oscar fish require a little special treatment in the way of breeding, so this Oscar fish, including fish, an expensive.

• BREEDING

1) Parent Selection

a. A good parent to be cultivated is 1.5 years old to 2 years with a body length of 15 cm and 10 cm height and
brightly colored.

b. Parent selection begins when the fish was a teenager Oscar (5 ~ 6 months), by mixing 5 males and 5 females. Oscar fish these teenagers will find its own partner. After each pair then we separate them in a separate vessel until a parent.

2) The difference of Parent Males and Females, see the following table under it?

MALE PARENT	FEMALE PARENT
- Relatively longer body length	- The parent who has cooked belly fat
- More prominent genitals	- A larger hole sex

How Spawning

a. Marriage place is made of cement measuring 1 1 / 2 x 1 x 0.5 m, filled with water that has been deposited during 12 ~ 24 hours as high as 30 ~ 40 cm.
b. If the marriage tub area, can be sealed.
c. A pair of Oscar parent who has cooked eggs inserted into the vessel.
d. In each column given a flat, dark stone and on it was closed most of the column for a calm atmosphere.
e. Oscar held a lunch and afternoon spawning directly fertilized by males.
f. Eggs which are located on the flat stone that has been fertilized diangakat inserted into the tank for hatching. Aquarium measures 70 x 40 x 40 cm filled with water as high as 10 cm, for holding a pair of eggs.
g. Go to the aquarium were given air (aeration) with weak power.
h. Done 3 days is usually the eggs begin to hatch.
i. Water was given a mixture emalin or methylene blue.

SEED MAINTENANCE

1) The seeds of this fish until the age of 4 days do not need to be fed, because they still have a supply of food on sacknya yolk (egg yolk).
2) On day 5 seed fed Rotifera. Feeding should not be delayed because Oscar fish are cannibals (eat each other).
3) On day 10 was given a flea can epidermis that has been filtered.
4) After 2 weeks old seedlings start given without filtered water bug and started to try hair worms.
5) The seed has to be moved to the tub / pool wider after the age of 25 days.

ENLARGEMENT

1) Enlargement of fish is done after the seedlings were 25 days.
2) Seed produced approximately 1000 s / d 3000 tail for one-time hatching.
3) Body used a 2 x 1 x 1 m, and filled with water as high as 20-25 cm.
4) For the first time enlarged to approximately 300 fish stocked fish.
5) To reduce the heat of the sun at noon, on the vessel were given water plants like water hyacinth and Hidrilla Verticilata. To prevent entry of rain water is too much, on top of the tub covered in part with plastic zinc.
6) carried out after boiling the seeds in the tub for a month with the number to 200 tail
7) Food provided in the form of hair cacng.
8) After the fish were 5 ~ 6 months, the fish had to be selected to be a parent, the food provided was replaced with a fresh shrimp time / life, can also be given rebon shrimp that are still fresh.
9) A pair of parent to produce eggs in 1000 s / d 4000 points for one spawning.

To get a beautiful color on Oscar fish, giving food must be contained calcium (chitine) starting from childhood, such as water fleas (Moina), Rotifera, hair worms, Artemia, shrimp or shrimp rebon times.
Oscar fish have a relatively high economic value;

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SOURCE
Fisheries Agency of DKI Jakarta, 1996
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African butterfly fish life

Perhaps we often suspect that the only relatives arowana fish just arapaima (Arapaima gigas) from Amazon river. In fact not the case .. Arowana included in family-tounge Bony (tongue bone), and in this family there are two other fish species, namely: African Knifefish and butterfly (Pantodon buchholzi). African butterfly is the only fish in the family Pantodontidae. This fish is very similar to arowana fish and knifefish Osteoglossidae included in the genus, because it is still included in the one family that is in the family tounge Bony fish (Osteoglossiformes).

African butterfly or butterfly fish comes from the tropical waters of western Africa, particularly Nigeria, Cameroon and Zaire in the south of Niger, Lake Chad, the Congo and northern Zambezi river.
These fish live in water level in the rivers that flow slowly

and in puddles of water surrounded by lush trees and filled with tree branches that jutted into the water.
Environment like this, of course, rich with insects that became the staple food of these fish. As inhabitants of the waters above, butterfly fish can be kept in shallow water tank.

This fish is not fussy about food, but in order to stay healthy, they require insects as one of the main menu. Although the butterfly fish is a predator, this fish tends to not eat the fish smaller.
Even so, it would be better if it did not mix this fish with other fish that also has a swimming area in the waters above, such as Hatchetfish. Instead Butterflyfish can be mixed safely with the fishes that swim in the middle and bottom, because these fish have never recorded foraging in the water, other than on the surface. If you want to maintain it, the surface water in the aquarium should be quiet, and does not flow. They search for food based on contact with surface water. That is one reason why it is not advisable to mix this fish with fellow residents of the waters, because the other fish movements can disrupt the instinctive butterfly fish. Butterfly fish known to only grow about 10 cm only.

One interesting fact of this fish is that they get the name from pectoralnya fins that look like butterfly wings. The fins are not fully help the fish to 'fly', but rather assist in floating position. They will jump to grab prey. To be sure the fish is able to jump as far as 2 meters. However they do not float or fly using the 'wings' (fish that actually fly using the wings is hatchetfish fish from South America).

Because the habit of "flying" this, it is advisable to grow floating plants like duckweed to reduce these habits, while still providing an area free of plants. Tank itself, of course, must be sealed very well.

The condition of water needed for life to be soft Butterfly fish (<10 ° DGH) and slightly sour acidity level (pH <6.5). Filtration through peat is highly recommended. Lighting should not be too bright, because of its natural konsisi own these fish live in the forests are filled with plants, so that the water itself, of course, filled with rotting leaves, acid water conditions, and sunlight difficult to penetrate the water because the trees are very dense . Male fish have the anal fin is curved, while female fish have fins that is straight. Although it is quite easy to distinguish, but the breeding of this fish in the aquarium quite difficult. Water temperature is not too critical as long as not too extreme (too hot or too cold)
In general, butterfly fish is a fish that is very unique, and very exciting to be maintained. Although not look too pretty, fish fish fish still is an amazing collection.