Monday, March 28, 2011

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.
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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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