Change the water in your aquarium is a tedious task. A few simple rules can make the job easier.
Aquarium care
Aquarium care is important, so that the fish bring you joy and live a long time, learn how to properly care for your aquarium. There are a few simple rules that should always be observed.
Growing aquarium plants
Growing aquarium plants is an art no less complex and interesting than keeping aquarium fish. It requires a lot of knowledge and skills.
Do you need a filter in your aquarium?
Do I need a filter in my aquarium? This question is asked by every novice amateur. Despite the seemingly obvious answer to this question, there is still no unambiguous answer.
Why is cloudy water in aquarium?
If the water in the aquarium is cloudy, it indicates an unfavorable microclimate of the room pond. In addition to the fact that this sight itself is not very pleasant, it can also be dangerous for the inhabitants of your home lake. Especially if the water has turned cloudy, which previously it was clear as a teardrop. This situation sometimes requires emergency intervention in the ecosystem of the artificial pond.
Homemade water pH test
Water ph test is produced by the industry in the form of strips impregnated with an indicator substance. These test strips are convenient. Their packaging has a scale for determining the concentration of hydrogen ions.
Water pH in aquarium
Water pH or the hydrogen value is one of the most widely used characteristics of aqueous solutions in both engineering and biology. The importance of the hydrogen value can be imagined if we remember that a decrease in pH in the internal environment of the body by just half a unit will lead to death.
How to reduce water hardness at home?
The need to reduce water hardness in the aquarium arises quite often. For example, if you decide to achieve spawning from neon, it is almost impossible to do it in hard water. Therefore, we will devote some time to available at home methods of reducing water hardness.
Find out water hardness at home
What is water hardness, what types of hardness there are and what units are used to measure it, we analyzed in the previous article “Water Hardness”. Now we have to figure out how to find out the hardness of water at home. And choose from the existing methods of the most suitable for us.