Aquarium Tips

[dixaisy930]

I thought this might be a helpful thread to start...a place where we can post various tips about taking care of aquariums and what not. I think "helpful tips" instead of "general knowledge" (i.e. partial water changes, or stocking guidelines) would be quite helpful.

Here are some of mine:

To make sure bottom dwellers get food, take some frozen, freeze dried, or even flakes and add them to a cup of regular tank water. Then use a turkey baster to suck the food up and squirt it down to the bottom dwellers (especially helpful for large and/or tall tanks).

Broken up and whole terra cotta pots make great decorations and provide lots of hiding places. I would use new pots, and make sure to smooth any rough edges of the broken pieces. These look a little more natural to me than many of the pre-fab decorations.

Try foods like seaweed, krill, squid, etc for your fish. My freshwater fish love the seaweed and krill. I would have never considered these foods, until I was reading about saltwater fish. But to be on the safe side, try and find out if your particular fish would suffer any consequences from feeding these "delicacies".

 

[Tropjunky]

Well my tip would be

Take ur time, it's not a race!

Live foods are kool but get them from a good dealer.

i u use freeze dried food soake it in a vitamin supliment to give them a ballance feed

 

[canarsie11]

If your just sitting and enjoying your tank, do an "out of the blue water change" few minutes and fish will love you for it!