Aquarium Stand - Most Important Things for freshwater aquarium setup

What are you planning to keep your aquarium on or have you already placed ? Whatever be the case you need to know about aquarium stand. Basically whatever you use to put or support your aquarium that can withstand the weight of aquarium is aquarium stand. Although you can buy various types of aquarium stands in other countries, person buying it in our country are very few because it is not available in fish store and we should give order to make it in furniture shop and that becomes expensive.

Quite a sight, aquarium stand downloaded from google

You can use something sturdy in your room that doesn't break if you don't have money to buy, if you can buy then buy it although I never will buy because money I have to invest in aquarium stand I rather will use it for buying fishes and other equipments for my aquarium. Or you can make your own by checking different forums about DIY(do it yourself) aquarium stands. You can use study table like me but don't keep aquarium above drawer or daraj. You can also make cheap stand of iron, I have seen local stores use it. Best of luck for whatever stand you choose, but decide only after thinking thoroughly about it.

 My 4 ft. aquarium in study table

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Fish Tank--Most Important Things for freshwater aquarium setup

Fish tank is the home for fishes and without one fish tank, we know that we start fish keeping hobby. Today we can get a lot of variety of fish tanks in fish stores starting from fish bowls to plastic tanks to plywood tanks to glass and acrylic. We prefer to buy fish bowl at first and buy goldfishes which won't last much longer and we will see goldfishes dying every time we buy and put it in fish bowl. Nowadays there are two types of aquariums that are very popular: Glass and Acrylic. 

Plastic Tanks in Nepal are imported from China    

Fishbowl

                                         


Now let's get to our main topic today, we are especially discussing about Acrylic and Glass tanks.

Glass Tanks: My preference is glass tank, also because acrylic tanks are not available in Nepal. All tanks that use glass as a material for building tanks are glass tanks. You can either build it on your own or buy from fish stores which is usually expensive but is best for beginners.

4 feet tank I built and in process of leak checking

Acrylic Tanks: These tanks are expensive than glass tanks and are not available in Nepal. If you are thinking of owning very large tank then you are best to buy acrylic tank. If you want to know more about this tank do read my blog I will write after I wrap up this topic about most important things for freshwater aquarium setup.

Acrylic Tank

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Most Important Things for freshwater aquarium setup

Then finally you have decided to set up your freshwater aquarium after researching about different aquarium that you could choose from. When you setup freshwater aquarium most important things you need are

• Fish Tank
• Aquarium Stand
• Filter for keeping tank water clean
• Air Pump for pumping air to airstones and also for running under gravel filter
• Air stones for generating oxygen in water
• Aquarium lights for bringing out vivid colour in fishes and for the proper growth of aquarium plants
• Chemicals for neutralising water 
• Aquarium decorations for making fishes feel at their home
• Multi plug to run filter, light, air pump 

I will talk about all these things one by one in my upcoming posts.

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8 things that Beginner Aquarists need

When we are at beginner level of fish keeping we need many things, if we don't have those things then we will surely be taking lives of many fishes. Today let's discuss about very important things that you will need if you are going to start fish keeping.

1. Researching Ability- If you didn't have researching ability then you wouldn't have come here,would you? If you want to have success in fish keeping then you should start to read books articles and blogs about fish keeping and join forums where there are many experts who are always eager to help you. 
2. Good Fish store Owner- We can easily recognize good fish owner, s/he is good if he is eager to help you buy healthy fishes and also give important advise needed for fish keeping.
3. Attitude towards Fish- Aquarist always needs to have good attitude towards fish i.e. you should see fishes as your pet and should care and love them.
4. Fish Compatibility Knowledge- You should know compatibility of fishes otherwise your fishes may vanish the other day with only one fish remaining. You should ask fish store owner if the fish you are buying is compatible with the fish you already have or search in net for it.
5. Tank or Fish Bowl- Many beginners don't know that large aquariums are better in every ways than fish bowls or small aquariums so they end up buying fish bowl in most cases for keeping especially goldfish, most of the times we find them dead the other day. So you should refrain from buying fish bowls or smaller tanks and go for large tanks if  your budget allows.
6. Journal of Fishes- Recently I have started keeping data about fishes in my diary so that I would know its growth rate and keep track of its activities when I read in one book that it is a good habit to keep journal of fishes.
7. Knowledge about water that goes in a tank- You have many choices when it comes to water that you put in your tank. You can use tap water, jar water for drinking, rain water, well water. Please note that you should treat water that you put in a tank with chemicals that you can buy  in fish stores for safety of your fishes.
8. Patience - It is the most important thing that aquarist need. You need patience in every step of Aquarium hobby either it be while setting up aquarium or after setting it up, if you don't have patience then you will always end up regretting. 

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Types of Aquarium Systems

Basically there are three types of aquarium systems which are categorized based on dissolved salt  and you can choose from : Freshwater, Brackish.or Saltwater

Group of Swordtails

• Freshwater System - This is the most popular aquarium system all over the world and mimics the water  of lakes, ponds as well as streams and doesn't have salt like marine or saltwater aquarium system. Freshwater fishes are easily available in all pet shops and are cheap as well as easy to maintain.We can further categorize this system into Tropical and Coldwater. Goldfishes, guppy, Oscar, Flowerhorn, Catfishes are some of the freshwater fishes.

  

  Blood Parrot Cichlid
• Brackish System - The water in in this system lies between fresh and marine in salt content. This is the least popular system because brackish water fishes come occasionally in fish stores. Some popular brackish water fishes are Scats, Pufferfish, some Mollies, Monos and Archerfishes.

  

  Brackish water fish Scat

• Saltwater System - Reef, marine or saltwater aquarium system are also popular among aquarists. Salt content in this system is higher than that of brackish water. Cost for maintaining salt water aquarium is higher than freshwater or so I have read in many articles since I don't have the first hand experience. Clownfish, Angels, Butterfly fish are some of the saltwater species.

Group of Clownfishes

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It started but how?

It was a long break of 3 months after S.L.C. exams and I was very much excited to have a holiday since I was in hostel for ten long years and could only come home on long holidays. One day I went to visit my uncle's house nearby and there I saw goldfishes in small bowl, I was fascinated to see fish swimming in a small bowl. So I asked sister who owned that fishes about fish bowl and where I could buy them and after that I bought one for N.Rs. 400 with gold fishes costing N.Rs.110. I bought 2 pairs  of those goldfishes and came home. I set up my bowl with water and put fishes in it only to see fishes dead after certain days. I bought many goldfishes after that and all died then I thought of giving up my hobby but couldn't so I searched on Internet about causes of their death but I didn't understand anything, what I found out from whole research in net was,"I should buy new big aquarium so that I could save fishes ".