Anyone who has kept a n aquarium knows how dirty the water gets. After all, even though fish are tiny, they are also rather sloppy animals, and the water wishes constant maintenance. Even if you make it a practice to change the water and rinse out the aquarium on a once-a-week basis, you’re still going to want some assistance with the monumental task of maintaining a healthy environment for your fish. One of the things that will help you is a good filter. Filters can be biological or chemical, but one of the most effective filters you can buy is one that uses diatomaceous earth as it’s filtering medium.

As the name indicates, diatomaceous earth comes from the soil. Diatoms are small organisms that die and leave fossilized remains in the soil. By so doing, they fill the soil with minute cavities which can be employed effectively in filtering debris out of water, including the water in fish tanks. These are the same types of filters which are utilized in pools and municipal applications, and they are fantastic for capturing even the tiniest particles in your water. In fact, they corral particles that are too little to be caught in most other types of water filters.

Vortex Diatom Filters are high-speed mechanical filters which are engineered to fine filter water in aquariums without disturbing the natural, and desirable, level of bacteria. Although many of us have been conditioned to think of bacteria as being a bad thing, there are many alternative categories of good bacteria that we rely on every day, so it is important that we not rid any ecosystem of the good bacteria that it needs for plants and animals to survive. A filter which damages the balance could prove hazardous for your fish.

A System one Pressure Filter from Aquarium Products will polish tank water at the rate of 300 gallons per hour. It may be employed both in saltwater and freshwater aquariums successfully. By filling the filter jar with diatomaceous earth, which can be acquired separately, it will run for roughly three hours at a time. It has to be turned off after three hours, because running it longer will cause the motor to burn up. However, in that 3 hours, you will have filtered and polished the best quality of water on the market today.

Although it may appear a little weird to use soil to clean your tank, diatomaceous aquarium filters are so popular that they are on back order at most online shops. With persistence you will be able to find the filter you need to keep your aquarium clean and your fish healthy.

Here is the second part of Setting Up a Reef Tank as promised from LA Fishguys.

I love that name! Enjoy!

Episode 51 , pt2, How To Set Up A Reef Tank, LA Fishguys

setting up a reef tank

Hey COOL!! LA Fishguys!! Yep. The are setting up a 100 gallon reef tank. I thought this was kind of a neat video. Very informative! Actually, this is part one. I will probably post the rest over the comming days.

Enjoy!!

Episode 51 , pt1, How To Set Up A Reef Tank, LA Fishguys

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Custom Aquarium Design

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The Benefits Of Ordering A Custom Aquarium

Another one of the many benefits to ordering a custom fish tank is design. One of the most common reasons why custom aquariums are purchased is because consumers cannot find the particular fish tank design that they were looking for. …

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People tend to buy and install aquariums mostly because they have seen them in their friends or colleges’ houses. We think that it is so easy to maintain such a beautiful fish tank, bringing enjoyment to us and our children, but we are mistaken. Not only it is a very difficult task to keep your fish tank in order, but also it is a great responsibility, which must be analyzed before taken up. The greatest problem for beginners arises, when they choose species for their fish tanks. The most popular pretext of buying this or that fish is its color. Some people also choose species, because the saw them in their friends’ aquariums and want to have the same. But such an important purchase cannot be made so thoughtless. There are a number of reasons for this. To begin with, there are species, which cannot live in one and the same aquarium. It is predetermined by nature and you cannot do anything about this. If you put incompatible fish in one fish tank, problems are inevitable. One of these fish will have to die. If you don’t want to torture defenseless creatures, you have to read several books on aquariums and consult specialists in this sphere.

The greatest advantage of aquarium fish is that they don’t need so much care as other pets do. You don’t have to feed them several times a day or comp them out, you don’t have to look for a lively insects for them. All you need to do is to put a pinch of dried food once a day. Fish can even survive without food for several days in case you have to go on business and don’t have a friend or a neighbor, who would take care of them. The water must be changed just once or sometimes even rarer and nothing bad will happen to your marine pets.

There are several types of fish that should be considered when starting up an aquarium. The most popular and unpretentious type are the community fish. The greatest thing about them is that they can live in one and the same tank with any other type of fish. Some of them tend to school and look very beautiful in your aquarium, swimming together hither and thither. Guppies and Neon fish are the most popular ones for those, who want to have colorful and cheerful atmosphere in their aquariums. Neon fish are very beautiful and opalescent, so you will never be disappointed by your choice.

The second type of fish is the semi-aggressive fish, which can be quite tolerant to other species. Rainbow shark and Red tailed shark belong to his type. However, it is not recommended to put semi-aggressive fish in aquarium with a smaller fish, because they will obviously be eaten.

There are much more useful recommendations if you want to have different species in your aquarium and you can get them in the nearest pet shops and aquarium fan web-sites.

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