Looking to buy an aquarium – should you buy a glass aquarium or an acrylic one? Glass is a long time favourite, and most of the tanks that I have seen are glass, but consider this: Acrylic is reputed to be 17 times stronger than glass, softer and more flexible than glass, and hence highly [...]
Having gone through the same experience myself just some time back when I got my first tank, here are some things, you as a budding aquarist would find useful: Tip # 1: Look for the largest tank you can afford – both in terms of space and money. Before you know it, your fish population [...]
Usually, preparing an aquarium implies getting some cheap albeit hardy fish like the zebra danio, and releasing them into a new tank. These fish then go about providing ammonia through their respiration, waste etc. This ammonia in the tank helps to create a colony of nitrifying bacteria (the good bacteria) and initiate the cycling of [...]
Probably the most common aquarium fish parasite, Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, causes the disease known as Ich or white spot in freshwater aquarium fish. Marine ich is caused by a different ciliate, Cryptocaryon. Literally translating into “fish louse with many children,” each parasite can beget over a thousand offspring. Though the disease it causes can be likened [...]
An Ultra Violet Sterilizer is a device that filters water filtration using an ultraviolet light bulb to kill microscopic organisms. I always knew it more in the context of the home water purifier, but it given that it helps cleanse the water from known bacteria and stuff, it would also be pretty useful for an [...]
