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Aclimitising your new wet pet

Aclimitising your new wet pet
We at The Fish Room would like to try and help you make the aclimitisatin process as easy as possible for you and your new pet. We have enclosed what we believe to be the best practice for introduction new fish into your aquarium. If you have a quarantine aquarium available, we strongly encourage you to quarantine your...

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Setting up a New Aquarium Part 5

Setting up a New Aquarium Part 5

Probably the most important part of keeping an aquarium is learning about the cycle. They joy with cycling is you can make it as complicated or basic as you wish, and for the sake of this we will make it as basic as possible for you.

The simplest way of explaining the cycle is that is makes your aquarium safe for your fish. It does that via good bacteria within your filter breaking down nasty stuff and turning it into something that is less nasty for your wet pets. This process goes from ammonia (very nasty) to nitrite (also very nasty) on to nitrate (only nasty at high levels). The idea is to not put fish into an aquarium with ammonia or nitrite but to wait until this process has gone through to nitrate. Depending on the method you use to cycle your aquarium this could take anywhere from 3 days up to 6 weeks.

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Setting up a New Aquarium Part 4

Setting up a New Aquarium Part 4

Bottled bacteria is a good way of speeding up a cycle for a new aquarium (please see cycling section) using these products can shorten a cycle down from upwards of 6 weeks to as little as 3-7 days. If using a bottled bacteria to cycle a fresh aquarium, please note although your aquarium is cycled and ready for wet pets, it is still a very immature system, so slowly adding fish is still the best option.

 

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Setting up a New Aquarium Part 3

Setting up a New Aquarium Part 3
Many hobbyists (including us at The Fish Room) prefer the natural look for their home aquarium. These are normally stones, wood, spider wood and leaves. Often most of these can be collected from local beaches or river ways. If you are collecting your own decorations, some cautions need to be made. With wood, it is recommended to only use hard woods as soft woods can root and leech into an aquarium very easily.

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Setting up a New Aquarium Part 2

Setting up a New Aquarium Part 2
Plant selection is also very important, all too often pet shops sell non-aquatic plants as aquatic plants, this is a recipe for disaster as they will not last long submersed underwater in your aquarium. We at the fish room do not carry not aquatic plants, to give you the best possible chance of having your plants survive.

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