Daily maintenance of an aquarium gives only little of work. Nourish the fishes, do some verifications check and, to the occasion clean the filter, are tasks that you can dispatch in some minutes. You will have next all the leisure to thrust you in the contemplation of your small world aquatique

Despite the products treatment water, it is not necessary nevertheless forget to carry your attention on the frequency of changes water. The aquarium work in closed circuit . With the passing of the time, the noxious losses appear and accumulate themselves. They can provoke a rupture functioning once the threshhold criticize crossed. The changes water avoid this kind of misadventure.

In the nature, water constantly is renewed. Your fishes were gone out of their natural universe to be dived in the aquarium. You have therefore to watch to reply to their needs in this domain. The filtrage the more to the point and an ideal plantation do not eliminate the necessity to change water.
The quantity of water to change depends on several factors. One can say, some regulate general, that more the ferry is small, more the change water must be frequent. For a ferry of 60 liters, you must change about 20 liters of water all the 2 weeks. For a bigger aquarium, you must renew third of water all the 3 to 4 weeks suffices.

Some others try are necessary :
- to pass a blow sponge on the ices (be careful to not jam grains of sand that could scratch the partition in glass)
- all the months, to the occasion of the partial renouvellement of water, change or clean a part of filtering masses
- to cut the so necessary plants.

Consult below the picture of the 'try to do'

Your aquarium during the vacation?
No problem! Opposite to many other domesticate animals , the fishes do not put problem during the vacation. For of small periods (week-end for example), you easily you can pass of all supervision. You will find surely an enough kind neighbor for itself in charge of the nutrition and lighting of your fishes during of your extended absences. A timer for the lighting would facilitate besides try it your "aid".

While respecting certain rules, you will find to your return your fishes in also good health and in also big form as before your departure.
- to clean the lid, the partitions and the ground of the l'aquarium 2 to 3 days before your departure in vacation.
- to replace about 1/4 volum water of the aquarium by fresh water faucet, to good temperature
- to clean the filter (nevertheless not at the same time a change water partial)
- to check the good functioning of the heating to thermostat and filter
- to install eventually a timer for the lighting and some to verify the inexpensive.

If a friend or a neighbor himself in charge of the nutrition during your vacation, you should prepare before the daily rations. You can thus fill with foods in flakes of small receptacles in plastic.

You now can leave in all calmness !