How to avoid tropical fish diseases in home aquariums
Do you ever feel like you know just enough about your experience in avoiding fish diseases in home aquariums to be dangerous? Let's see if I can fill in some of the gaps with the latest information from my experience in avoiding fish diseases in home aquariums experts.Hopefully the information presented so far has been applicable. You might also want to consider the following:
People who keep tropical fish in home aquariums are informed that to avoid numerous fish diseases they must maintain sterile conditions. Whenever the fish become ill or begin dying, the hobbyist is advised to put antibiotics or mild antiseptics into the tank, killing off most forms of micro life. But nature is not sterile. Nature is healthy.
Like many an apartment dweller, in my twenties I raised tropical fish and grew house plants just to have some life around. The plants did fine; I guess I've always had a green thumb. But growing tired of dying fish and bacterial blooms clouding the water, I reasoned that none of the fish I had seen in nature were diseased and their water was usually quite clear.
Perhaps the problem was that my aquarium had an overly simplified ecology and my fish were being fed processed, dead food when in nature the ecology was highly complex and the fish were eating living things. So I bravely attempted the most radical thing I could think of; I went to the village, found a small pond and from it brought home a quart of bottom muck and pond water that I dumped into my own aquarium. Instead of introducing countless diseases and wiping out my fish, I actually had introduced countless living things that began multiplying rapidly. The water soon became crystal clear. Soon the fish were refusing to eat the scientifically formulated food flakes I was supplying. The profuse variety of little critters now living in the tank's gravel ate it instead. The fish ate the critters and became perfectly healthy.
Before going further to my story, I would to introduce a vedio for your viewing
When the snails I had introduced with the pond mud became so numerous that they covered the glass and began to obscure my view, I'd crush a bunch of them against the wall of the aquarium and the fish would gorge on fresh snail meat. The guppies especially began to look forward to my snail massacres and would cluster around my hand when I put it into the tank. On a diet of living things in a natural ecology even very difficult species began breeding.
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I would like to share with you some information from the eBook Tropical Fish - A Complete Guide
It covers a topic that has recently moved to center stage--at least it seems that way. If you've been thinking you need to know more about it, here's your opportunity.
The more authentic information about Tropical Fish you know, the more likely people are to consider you a Tropical Fish expert. Read on for even more Tropical Fish facts that you can share.
A complete Guide you will be exposed to page after page of essential information that will expand your knowledge and remove the guess work from keeping tropical fish.
If you want to...
• be able to set up your own aquarium from start to finish,
• be able to maintain your aquarium to keep it looking pristine and fresh,
• enjoy the benefits of beautiful and healthy fish and an eye-catching habitat to accommodate them,
• be able to identify the initial signs of illnesses and disease occurring in your aquarium,
• enjoy the reactions and interest of friends and family when they see you aquarium,
• save money on unnecessary products they recommend at the pet store,
• rest easy with the knowledge that you have happy fish that will live long and healthy lives...
A Complete Guide will help you achieve your goals using simple and easy to understand techniques. You will be amazed how quick and easy it can be to set up a professional looking aquarium. Many of these people had no idea what was involved in building a tropical fish aquarium. They where amazed with the end result of their efforts and could not believe, if the correct planning was done and everything was implemented in the correct order, how straight-forward the set up process was. Many of them suggested (or maybe they were joking!)
More often than not we are fed up with the quality of other tropical fish products on the market. The information they offered their books were over priced, and generally didn't focus on telling you how to get the best results using methods that don't require a lot of effort and products that don't cost the earth. Both of these things I believe take the fun and enjoyment out of keeping fish. After all, something that costs piles of money and requires a lot of work on your behalf can't really be deemed as enjoyable... well I don't think so anyway!
However, this Complete Guide is your one stop guide to everything you need to know about caring for tropical fish. The instruction Video will walk you through the initial planning details that have to be thought about, such as...
• where your aquarium is going to be situated in the house, and where is should definitely not be situated,
• selecting the right size aquarium for you... because smaller does not mean easier...
Learn how to set up an aquarium and have it swimming with happy fish within 24 hours!
• learn all about cycling... you NEED to know this,
• timing is key... learn when the right time is to add fish... don't risk inflicting pain on your fish by having the water at an incorrect temperature...
Learn the maintenance techniques that will save you time and money...
• learn about better and cheaper alternatives to "off the shelf" products,
• reduce the number of partial water changes you have to make without putting your fish in jeopardy...
Understand your fish's diet. Are your fish top, middle or bottom feeders? Just any old fish food won't do... how will your bottom feeders eat if all the food is floating on the surface and vice versa?!
And its all explained in a manner that a layman can understand! Which is great as they will definitely want to help you set up and care for the new family pets!!
I was talking with tropical fish friends of mine, and they suggested that I should get some trusted instructional video one that outlined the necessarily steps to setting up a fantastic looking tropical fish aquarium as I was new to tropical fish keeping, an instructional video to show me what steps to take to set up a tropical fish aquarium would be something that I would definitely watch. Wow... what a great e-Video I found.
Those who only know one or two facts about Tropical Fish can be confused by misleading information. The best way to help those who are misled is to gently correct them with the truths you're learning here.
More information!
posted by Jia @ Saturday, September 16, 2006
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