by Manicosity

I believe that too many populate start their aquariums with the aim of its inhabitants surviving. I would like to suggest that this hobby is now way past this simple aim. Due to the lack of information and technology aquariums once had a reputation as being hard to keep.

I have done some study into the objected set of the people that have the aquariums that thrive as an oppose to those that have aquariums that merely survive. I have found that it is more then a choice it to be able to see the aquarium with a new set of understandings.

When I telling thriving I average beautiful clean tanks that are easy to maintain full of fish that are happily growing and breeding and plants or coral that that are growing and propagating.

The first thing I want you to understand is that your aquarium is perfect and it is exactly what it should be. So many populate blame their aquarium for its problems e.g. I would love my tank if it didn’t have so much algae or I would love it if the fish didn’t holding dying, like it is the tanks blame. Guess what, its not the tanks fault, its your fault and only your fault.

These populate seek advice on how to fix these problem and may take a step in the direction of it being fixed but just don’t get there e.g. they find out that their algae problem is caused by elevated phosphate levels, so they do a water change, cut down food and flush add a phosphate sponge and wonder the very next week why the problem is not solved. Many people fall short of creating a solution even though they did take a step in the right direction. I need you to understand that much of what you do today will not show up tomorrow, even next week, more likely next month. Using the algae as an example, let say that you find out that the algae is caused by phosphate so you do every thing you need to do to get your phosphate down to zero but still the algae lives on. Well guess what, the algae doesn’t what to die, it will cling to life until it is literally starved of the conditions it needs to live e.g. present phosphate. This will not happen over night, but with time it will happen. The good news it that once it is gone it is gone and it will take a while until it returns, once those original conditions are present again and at least this time you will easily have the power to fix it again.

Another area that populate complain about is that one person says one thing and some one else says something else, so how will they ever know what is right if experts can’t level agree, so why should I trouble. Let me share something with you, so guess what, everything you know about your aquariums and everything that anyone knows about their aquarium has all been made up. Understand that there is no truth so stop looking for it. People will share their experience of what to do and how things happen but that is all it is, their experience and this is true if you are talking to a marine scientist, an expert aquarist or your neighbour. Understand that there are many ways of doing things and none are the right way, they are all made up, either by them or the person that told it to them. Just do what make since to you and you will soon see exactly how your aquarium reacts, which maybe different to how your neighbours aquarium reacts.

An example of getting information on a solution from one person to the next is allow say I have a 10lt bucket of water and I need to get the water from one 10lt bucket to the next, so I ask one person and they say siphon it, someone else say no, no, no, you have to scoop it, until someone else sees you scoop it and says hey just pour it, this all makes sense until you see someone happily splashing it in. The point that I am trying to make is that if you know what you are trying to do e.g. get water from one bucket to the next it doesn’t matter how you do it, if you know what you are trying to do. When learning about your aquarium the aim is really to learn what are you trying to do. Too many populate argue and focus on how to do it. Once you know what you are trying to do you will not be confused about how to do it, you will feel freedom in choosing how you decide to do it. Everyone has an opinion on the right and wrong ways of doing things but having an aquarium is about you giving it a try and learning what works for your system.

Learn to accept your tank just the way it is and just the way it isn’t. The aquarium does what the aquarium does and that is exactly what it is supposed to do. When you understand this, it will bring you new power to enjoy your tank e.g. one fish doesn’t get along with another one, so watch and enjoy this natural interaction until you believe the life of the weaker fish is in danger then remove one of the fish to another aquarium, but don’t resent the fish as if that wasn’t supposed to happen because exactly what happened is exactly what is supposed to happen, you are meant to watch and enjoy every interaction in your aquarium not just the nice ones. Do you think that some fish don’t get along in the wild? Of cause they don’t. You will never control your aquarium, but you will have control over it.

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To many times populate have come to me and said that over the last year one fish has killed off all the other fish in the tank. Remembering that you do have control over your tank but at this point it would be a good idea to possibly move this fish to another tank once it has killed the second fish and saved all the other fish. Your observations and actions are the key to a thriving tank.
Never forget that you bought your aquarium to watch it, so witness it. Watch what happens enjoy what happens, be alert to what happens and use your control over it. I would care to suggest that most problems that occur in your aquarium could be avoiding by learning the rules of how to keep an aquarium and using your control over what you see happening.

You have some control over your aquarium but you will never control it completely, so except this and enjoy it.

It is your chisel to create the possibility of your aquarium thriving. If your aquarium is not the way you desire it, create the possibility that it will be great and give it clock to show you results. The way to create a new possibility with your aquarium is to start doing something new, which will allow something new to exhibiting up, remembering that when you make a change today you tin often anticipate to see the change show up next month, thriving aquariums are often the result of patience. Most chemic or biological changes to your aquarium take about 3 weeks to really make a difference.

Imagine, visualise and plan your perfect aquarium before you start, if you fail to plan you may intend to fail. So many people walk into an aquarium shop because they would similar a new fish, with out any idea of what type of fish they are looking for. They will ask the staff on duty how these fish will go with the few fish they are able to name in their tank. As you can imagine sometimes this works and other times it doesn’t. Creating a plan for your tank include a wish list is a very good idea. This way you are able to present your wish list to many aquarists before you start buying your fish and start learning the hard way which fish don’t oftentimes serving together. Imagining, visualising and planning your tank is the best way to make sure that your tank turns out with the outflanking result.

Taking responsibility for what it will be will ensure you don’t have to focus on what it is, what it is, is a product of what you did in the past. Learn that there is no one else to blame but you for why your aquarium is not thriving and I assume’t intending merely survive. Never blame the populate that give you advice, they are only try to help and next time they may help. An aquarium has many factors that must be taken into consideration when big even simple advice, only you are able to understand the happenings of your tank, so assume’t get angry at the guy at the aquarium store that has assay to help you in a five minute conversation, when what he has said didn’t work out. Learn your aquarium yourself and remember that what ever happens to it in this clocked was say to happen and each incident will carry lessons to aid your grow as an experienced fish keeper, remember that good experience is ofttimes born retired of badly experience. Never give in and keep seeking the outdoing advice.

Keeping an aquarium is a game, play the back. You need a vision with ensue to make it worth playing the game. No matter what happens assume’t forget that it is just a game and one that if you loose the game you didn’t play it well enough and that you tin ever play again and win next clocking. When playing a game you often need a good coach so it can be important to seek expose and create a relationship with a good aquarium adviser that can assist you win this punting of maintaining a boom aquarium. Ask around because you will find this person and your relationship with them will bloom as they get to contribute to and share in the adventures of your thriving aquarium. If you are not aquarium expert it is as important to have an aquarium coach as it is to have a mechanic for your car.

Aim to have a perfect tank, don’t aim to just see how it move. You need to have a vision that truly inspires you in order to have a tank the really thrives. Don’t aim to have a tank that survives, aim to have a tank that thrives.

The way your tank is today is the way it always will be, unless you change it now because tomorrow ne’er comes. So many times I here people say that they will improve their aquarium when this and when that. When is now, nowadays or never, your fish deserve not