Howdy!
Hope you are doing well, Like every other day, I am back with another interesting topic which can be really important for you if you are planning to get a proper aquarium tank. As you guys already know, I have been in fish keeping from about 9 years straight. So I believe I have faced a lot of issues which I have solved by researching or asking towards other people, searching in the internet for hours and hours!
It has been quite a hassle for me! But I don’t want you to face the same issue that I have faced! So today I will talk about the top 5 issues I have faced while building my aquarium over the years!
So let’s get started!
Number one
Acclimation
Most of the people at the beginning don’t even knows what is meant by acclimation. Well no need to worry, I personally didn’t knew it either! Mainly in easy words, acclimation refers to a condition where the water temperature of the tank is tried to be made similar with the water temperature inside the polythene bag the fish is brought in. When I first bought my very first fish I didn’t knew that this is needed to be done! I am not saying that without acclimation there will be a huge issue but what I am saying is that acclimation is important. Due to the different water temperature of both tank and polythene bag of which the fish has brought by, adding your fish straight in the aquarium tank can cause your fish stress which can be harmful for your fish. I have seen some fish with fading color just because they are stressed out. So don’t make this mistake. Put your polythene bag with the fish inside your aquarium tank , floating in the water for around 15-30 minutes. This will be beneficial for your fish and your fish will be active and healthy!
Number two
Substrate deciding
Well a lot of you including me does the same mistake while building their tank is that, they add substrate and plants and other decoration stuffs inside their aquarium but the twist is they add it at a he quantity. Mainly as a beginner your mind will provoke you to buy this and that for your aquarium for enhancing it’s beauty! We add this structure or that rock in the aquarium. Which is a problem. Not for us but for the fish. While in my case, I added so much stuffs in the aquarium tank that at the end, my fishes didn’t had the space to swim properly inside the tank. My suggestion in this case will be to keep the landscape of your aquarium simple so that it will be good for your fish as they can swime well, also easy to clean!
Number Three
Too much fish
Often you will see in instagram or tiktok reels that people having a really large tank and there are so many fishes inside the tank. Looks really amazing right?
Well I don’t recommend that!
There are a lot of categories of fish such as calm fish, monster fish , territorial fish, shy fish. All this combination can cause you and issue while keeping together! Well you need to make sure that there are not too much fish inside your tank as it will create a mess. I once made this mistake where I had almost 20 fishes inside my tank. I just randomly bought them and this caused me issues such as fish dying, water PH level got messed up, fish were fighting, the tank looked over populated!
This was not a good sign for my fishes. So I recommend you to have less fish together and of you have an intention of keeping a lot of fishes together, buy separate tanks!
Number four
Medicine at a proper quantity
Maximum of my fishes died of this mistake which refers to the problem of not knowing how to add medicines or in what quantity to add the medicines. Maximum of the time at the beginning , I added more medicines to the tank which created an issue for my tank. Maybe 10 years back medicines were found separately.
Now every medicine could be found in one bottle. So my recommendation will be not to buy medicines separately as it can make out a mess without proper maintenance, rather buy an bottle of water purifier medicine for a balanced water for your tank.
Number Five
Proper water changing
Well at the beginning a lot of people didn’t had the idea of how to clean the water of their aquarium. I personally had cleaned the water in full quantity for a lot of times. Which was a huge mistake. A really big mistake.
Well in the wild or inside your aquarium tank’s water, there are many beneficial bacteria’s which are necessary for your fish tank.This bacteria’s helps in stabilizing the water condition of your fish tank. When you will change the water in full quantity, it will clean out all the necessary bacteria’s of your fish tank which is not recommended. So while changing the water, try to change the water at 25 percent of your whole tank every 2 weeks after. This will help you to maintain the water parameter of your loving fish tank!
Okay I believe this has been my experience with building my tank. Hope to see you in my next blog!
Till then stay safe and keep your pet safe!