Fish wholesale - Tropical Fish Secrets - Fish Symptoms
Tropical Fish Secrets You fish will exhibit symptoms of oxygen deficiency or excessively high levels of carbon dioxide. IF you see your fish coming to the surface often, check your water first before turning up the air pump. The filter changes the ammonia first into nitrite and then into nitrate. Nitrite is highly poisonous and needs to be changed quickly. You should check your nitrite levels every two weeks with a kit. If it is too high, clean your filter and change your water immediately. An easy way to determine whether this is necessary is to smell the water. Nitrite will smell bad. Too much nitrate will harm the plants in the tank and therefore will affect the oxygen and carbon dioxide in the tank. One thing to remember is that our tap water contains more nitrate than the tropical waters. The transformation of ammonia into nitrate uses up a lot of oxygen. The less this occurs the more oxygen that is available to our fish. Because our tap water is really only for human consumption, it is devoid of carbonic acid. Plants provide phosphate, iron and manganese to survive. Our tap water is devoid of these minerals. It is for this reason that it is important to put plants in the tank. They will remove the poisons in the water before you put the fish in it. It ensures the greatest success in your aquarium is to do a dry run with the tank. Set up the tank for two to three weeks. Set up the tank, fill it with water, air pump, and filter etc without the fish in it. This gives the plants a chance to take root and the bacteria can develop which will create a good aquarium environment. I asked you before to think about what kind of fish that you want to put in your tank to determine the size of the tank that you will need. It is also important to think about the natural environment of the fish that you want in terms of the water. Fish from South America which are Neon Tetras, Discus Fish, Angelfish ( Scalares), Armored Corydoreas, and Dwarf Cichlids. Water from the South American region consists of three different types of water- white water, clear water, and black water. White water is cloudy, yellow and clayey. It is soft, as we discussed before is 0.6 to 1.2 dH. And it is slightly acidic pH 6.5 to 6.9. It does have minimum amounts of ammonium and nitrate. Clear water is transparent and yellow to dark olive green in colour. It is extremely soft 0.3 to 0.8 dH and the acid level 4.6 to 6.6 pH. It has hardly any ammonium or nitrate. Black water is transparent and dark brown. It is 0 to 0.1 dH and 3.8 to 5.3 pH with no ammonium or nitrate. There is no distinct division between the three types of water and many fish come from a combination of these waters. Pure black water is not viable for fish to survive in. Central America This water tends to be medium hard to hard and is neutral and slightly alkaloid. The most common fish that are found in this area is Cyprinodonts and live- bearing Toothed Carps.
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