How To Make A Fish Tank

I have always enjoyed keeping them as have several of my hobbyist friends but there never seemed to be much passion with the exception of a couple of people. In this article I will tell you a little about keeping and growing plants successfully, or at least what makes it successful for me.

First of all, lets discuss the need for plants in the aquarium. An aquarium without plants is like a home without furniture. It is liveable - but ugly, uncomfortable and inef

Here is a first-person work that covers all three in following the life and career of David Powell. A span of some five decades spent pursuing and enjoying building out exhibits, collecting specimens and dealing with the "human" sides of our interest.

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This is a personal narrative of Davids time as an adventurous diving youth (in the days when gear was quite "experimental") to many years designing, helping run some prominent west coast (US) public aquariums (M

Ammonia is toxic to fish so we wouldnt want that to build up in our aquarium. Luckily, there are types of bacteria that use Ammonia as part of their metabolism.

They use up the available Ammonia and convert it to a compound known as Nitrite(NO2). So, all is safe and sound, right?

No. Unfortunately, Nitrite is also very toxic to fish.

Bummer.

Now it happens to be that another type of bacteria come along and use this Nitrite in their metabolism. They scrounge up all the Nitrite they can find and convert it to a comp

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Ok well i would agree with everyone here about the guppy being the hardiest fish you can buy, not much else will survive where these happy critters cant.

I think as you are a newby to aquariums.

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