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Our Featured Article:
Is Your Aquarium Balanced?
By: Nathan Miller
The world
as we know it is in balance. Animals breathe in oxygen and give
off carbon dioxide. Plant absorbs carbon dioxide and give off
oxygen as part of there process of photosynthesis. Animals eat
plants and animals wastes, feed plants. Water evaporated from
the seas and come back to freshen the earth.
The absolute balance of an aquarium world is not usually
possible for a beginner. Usually the fish give off more waste
matter (both in gas and solids) than the plant life can absorb.
And plants almost never provide sufficient food for fish life in
an aquarium tank (the things that the aquarium keeper must
provide to maintain plant life). But too much encourages the
excess growth of algae, causing green water and green-coated
tank walls.
Below are the 4 things you as an aquarium keeper must learn to
balance:
Food:
It must be a balance of vegetable and animal matter. The reason
is that insufficient food stunts the growth and lowers the
resistance of fish to disease. On the flip side too much food
can also harm the fish by polluting the aquarium.
Size of Tank:
The tank must be larger enough to provide space according to the
number and size of the fish. It mustalso have sufficient surface
so that oxygen can be absorbed to satisfy them.
Temperature:
This poses no problem for us in this part of the world as the
range of 24 degree centigrade to 30 obtainable here is most
ideal for tropical fish.
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