Step by step aquarium guide

Step by step aquarium guide

Planning

The journey to your own aquarium already begins with the most important of all steps.
The planning.
In this phase, you should first ask yourself whether you have enough time at all to look after the aquarium and the animals in it every day. Furthermore, you have to consider whether you have a suitable …

Buying an aquarium

Having successfully completed the planning of the aquarium, you should now implement the plan deed and buy the planned tank. However, an aquarium is not enough for living inhabitants or plants, so other items are needed. Below this article you will find a list of all the items needed for an aquarium …

Commissioning

The items that you bought in the second step, are now installed. In this phase, you start to place the aquarium in the already selected place.
Do not fill it with water yet!
After you have now built the tank, you start by placing the filter and this …

Running-in phase

Now that you have finished setting up the aquarium and it has been put into operation in the planned location, you now have to wait for the run-in period. This is to give the bacteria in the aquarium time to multiply. These bacteria then later ensure that toxic substances in the water are broken down. The running-in period is normally …

Animals

Now that the aquarium is up and running-in period is over, it is time to let the first inhabitants move in. It is important not to buy all the animals at once, but to introduce groups of animals step by step. Normally, you start by introducing snails, shrimps or similar into the aquarium first. After that you start …

Feeding & Care

The aquarium is in operation, the fish and other animals have moved in and everything is running great. To maintain this in the future, it is imperative to regularly take care of the tank itself and the technology. In addition, you have to deal with the inhabitants most days of the week. Most of them will have a …

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