Showing posts with label Saltwater Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saltwater Tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Decorating AQUARIUM

Decorating your aquarium tank for good looking for eyes, this will make happy our spirit and others people who look that.

Many steps to make aquarium so cute, futuristic, weird and unique from others, in this below this just a little tips for decor aquarium and this basic decor for aquarium.

Sand

You can enhance your marine aquarium with sand. Of course, the sand used is sea sand, because in addition to providing beauty, sea sand can also function as a filter for impurities in your aquarium.
sand
white sand


Coral Stone

Similarly, sand, coral can also filter the dirt from your aquarium, but it is also necessary coral as a place to live marine fish in your aquarium.
coral stone


Lamp

With special lighting marine aquarium, aquarium you will look more beautiful.
aquarium lamp

Sponge

Flower coral is a place of living of the inhabitants of the sea, so if you want to make an aquarium, do not forget to decorate it with flowers coral for marine fish in the aquarium you can live like in their natural habitat.

Many types of sponges that can be kept in the aquarium.

Here are some examples ..
white sponge
sea anemone sponge


sponge aquarium

sponge flower

red sponge

anemone sponge



grenn sponge

Friday, April 1, 2011

Saltwater Aquarium care tips

Treatment is most often done replenish the evaporated aquarium water . Note here: that the aquarium water will always evaporate and the only water that evaporates, not with salts. For that use fresh water (with the best conditions you can get), do not use salt water. If the sea water used to refill the water evaporates, then that would be obtained is the increasing salinity of water in the aquarium. If salinity through a certain number, some or even all types of fish could die. Use a hydrometer every time you refill your aquarium water.

Other treatments that need to be done is to periodically check aquarium water salinity. Usually along with the filling fresh water as mentioned above. Although the water that evaporates has been replaced with fresh water rather than mean levels of salinity can be fixed on the expected scale. Aquarium water salinity could tend to rise due to the feeding of ornamental fish (food always contains salt). Although this trend is classified as very slow, could be many months depending on the amount of food provided.

Cleaning the glass of moss covering it certainly is necessary so that we can always enjoy the beauty of our akuairum. Magnetic glass cleaners are best. It's just that if you use traditional lava sand (from the river) some kind of rock harder than glass may be contained in the sand. If the stone is attached to the magnet, then the glass will be scratched, even worse to cut (and solve)! Be careful!

Replace regular sea water. Although it looks just as 'sea water', but we sometimes do not think that the content in it can consist of anything. Some minerals like calcium and iodine are clearly needed for the growth and health of ornamental fish. And these minerals would have been consumed over time. Replacement of sea water every 3-4 months at 20-25% is recommended.

Lighting is not a matter of beauty alone. Adequate lighting and arranged in such a way that can mimic sunlight is necessary for the bio-rhythmic life in the aquarium. Moreover, if the aquarium is placed in the room that almost no sunlight. Some fish like-kind Keling hour kelingan have a very regular life, at night the fish of this type will be sleeping in the sand.

Finally, periodically clean the bowl container (collection cup) skimmer. Skimmer will not work if the bowl is filled with liquid manure that has been produced.

Caring for marine ornamental fish

Marine fish food can be in various forms: dry food / pellets, assorted seafood, and vegetables.

Pellets as processed foods humans have a very complete nutrition. Can dipasatikan that fish receiving the pellets will live healthier and longer in the aquarium because nutritional needs are met in full.

In contrast with seafood, any seafood species have specific nutritional content. Seafood should be given in a variety of and turns to satisfy the need for a complete nutrisis this. For example, shrimp, clams, fish, squid, and other sebaginya.

Vegetables only be given if there are fish-eating vegetables such as surgeonfish, Angelfish, Butterflyfish and Samadar some kind. Vegetables are often used are kale, lettuce, mustard greens, lettuce Clubs, and others.

How much food should be given? Food for marine fish should be given in sufficient doses or less, not more. Foods that are given too much will affect the quality of aquarium water. As an illustration, for example to 10-15 fish in the aquarium 150 liters, can be given as much as one teaspoon of pellets every day or every other day.

Feeding does not mean that all fish must obtain jatahnya every time food is given. Could have at one time a fish does not get food because the move less quickly than with other fish. But on the next occasion is usually the fish that 'more hungry' it will move more quickly to get food other than fish that are relatively 'more satisfied'.
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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.
make aquarium



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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