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Setting Up Your Home Aquarium: All About Aquarium Pumps

Aquarium pumps are also important in setting up your home aquarium. It facilitates proper oxygenation in the water for your fish to breathe. The pump is normally attached to a plastic tube that is also attached to a long protruding equipment that has small perforations all over it. The pump puffs air into the holes making bubble inside the aquarium. This facilitates larger surface capacity therefore gathering more oxygen for the fish.
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A BACKYARD FISH POND

Water gardens and backyard ponds are for butterflies,
frogs, birds, fish, you, and the whole family. These
ponds may be small, may even be no larger than 3 to 4
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Breeding Buttikoferi Tropical Fish

A big aquarium of at least 60-70 gallons is needed to maintain a couple of Buttikoferi Tropical fish. These types of tropical fish should be kept in a special aquarium. That is, never try keeping them with other tropical fish, if you do not want bloodshed in the fish tank. Read the rest of this entry »

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Alternative Foods For Tropical Fish

Feed flakes, dried foods and pellets are all conventional feeds used by many aqua culturists, however, some of them are venturing into alternative fish food for tropical fish. There could be many reasons; however, it could be either to slash cost or to vary the nutritional diet of the fish. Read the rest of this entry »

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Acclimating Tropical Fish to Your Fish Tank

There are three common methods in acclimating your tropical fish in a newly set-up aquarium. These methods are:

1. The Floating Bag Method
2. The Bucket Method
3. The Drip Method

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