http://onedersave.com/blog Useful, interesting and must-know articles about aquarium care Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:05:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_285" align="alignright" width="216" caption="Avoid overcrowding and keep your fish healthy"][/caption] Being an aquarium owner is one of the most rewarding hobbies ever! There are so many different types of fish to choose from, and watching your fish with their striking colors swim about the tank is a pleasure you can ... http://onedersave.com/blog/284/overcrowded-aquarium-consider-upgrading-to-larger-tank/ Suffice it to say that Old Tank Syndrome is the opposite of New Tank Syndrome. To refresh the memory, let us remember that New Tank Syndrome takes place when an eager newcomer to the aquarium hobby starts to lose fish at about the six-week anniversary of aquarium ownership. This can happen ... http://onedersave.com/blog/281/old-tank-syndrome/ aq http://onedersave.com/blog/278/how-to-video-on-starting-your-first-aquarium/ [caption id="attachment_276" align="alignright" width="184" caption="Saltwater Aquarium with Nemo"][/caption] For many of us, having a saltwater aquarium would be like having a dream come true. However, we have been either scared away from owning what we would really like to have by some of the things we have read about having this ... http://onedersave.com/blog/275/saltwater-aquarium-for-beginners/ Starting a new fish tank can be exciting, but that excitement could quickly fade if we failed to do a crucial first step the right way, and some or all of our fish were to die. In order to keep this from happening, the person who wants a freshwater fish ... http://onedersave.com/blog/271/starting-a-new-fish-tank/ [caption id="attachment_269" align="alignright" width="140" caption="Vacuuming Aquarium Gravel "][/caption] Okay, aquarium newbies, here is a question for you! Do you vacuum the substrate of your freshwater aquarium? For a healthy tank, vacuuming the gravel or other substrate that you have placed in the bottom of the aquarium is a head start on ... http://onedersave.com/blog/268/vacuuming-aquarium-gravel/ [caption id="attachment_266" align="alignright" width="216" caption="Healthy aquarium"][/caption] Those who have just begun the hobby of keeping freshwater aquarium fish may not realize the importance of keeping the aquarium water quality in their tanks crystal clean and pleasing to the eye. When the water has this appearance, and has no odor, you know ... http://onedersave.com/blog/265/aquarium-water-quality-dos-and-donts/ [caption id="attachment_259" align="alignright" width="218" caption="Aquarium bio-filters"][/caption] If you are new to the hobby of aquariums, you may have run across the term "biological filtration" quite a few times while you read about and researched your leisure pursuit choice. If that is so, you have probably wondered why biological filtration is important ... http://onedersave.com/blog/261/why-biological-filtration-is-important/ [caption id="attachment_255" align="alignright" width="216" caption="Saltwater Aquarium"][/caption] Many newcomers to the world of keeping saltwater fish are wondering about the proper accessories for saltwater tanks. A lot depends on what kind of saltwater tank system you prefer. Do you want a reef tank system, a system with live rock and fish, or ... http://onedersave.com/blog/254/saltwater-tanks-and-their-proper-accessories/ [caption id="attachment_250" align="alignright" width="216" caption="gravel siphone"][/caption] One of the first tidbits of information many new aquarium owners get, often has to do with partial water changes. It is important to be aware of the importance of partial water changes for your freshwater aquarium. However, doing this tank maintenance the wrong way ... http://onedersave.com/blog/249/partial-water-changes-the-important-task-for-your-aquarium/