Cleaning your fish tank is task that must be done every few weeks or so until your tank is established. Once established, your tank will only need to be cleaned a few times a month. If you do clean your tank right the process can be very easy or difficult. The size of your tank can depend on how long it takes to clean. The bigger the tank and more decor is the, the harder it will be to clean.

When cleaning a tank, changing the filters is the first step. If you have a bio filter, or power filter changing the filters is a breeze. A under gravel filter is another story. You must remove all the plants, decor and accessories. Then you must pull it out from under the gravel to clean.

Once the filters are cleaned, replace them with new ones. If you have an underground filter do not replace it back in the tank yet. If you have an established tank then leave the plants and decor, even if they have algae on them. If you do not have an established tank or smaller tank (ten gallon or smaller) then wash off all the plants and decor. If you have real plants do not wash them.

Hello and welcome to this article, you may be reading this because you are interested in buying a Koi aquarium so read on to find out if you should or shouldn’t.

Koi are extremely relaxing fish to watch and more and more people are starting to buy them, Koi have great colourings and are fantastic creatures.

The reason you are probably thinking about keeping them in a Koi aquarium is because you want to enjoy them in the house instead of leaving them outside.

Plus having them indoors protects them from being attacked by cats and wild animals.

As I’m sure you already know Koi will grow quite large, well over a foot long so it is important to know that you will need a good sized Koi aquarium if you wish to keep them inside.

Keeping Koi in a Koi aquarium is not a good thing to do for a couple of reasons.

Firstly Koi can become very active and splash about sometimes when they become excited so this is not good for the aquarium.

Living systems of aquatic plants and animals for exhibition, scientific analysis or decoration, aquariums are balanced when aquatic plants and animals exist in respiratory cooperation. Fish exhale carbon dioxide and eliminate wastes which the plants absorb as fertilizer. Plants use the carbon dioxide and emit oxygen during photosynthesis which the fish inhale. Cooperation exists in this sense. Sufficient daylight, uniform water temperature and prepared fish foods are all that are needed to support most freshwater fish. A large variety of aquatic plants is good for aquariums.

Fish convert approximately 85 percent of what they eat into protein food as contrasted with approximately 10 percent converted by beef cattle.

There are two types of pond construction the dug pond formed by digging a sunken shape out of the earth, and the levee pond made by natural levees or by mechanically digging out a level pond bottom. Levee ponds allow for drainage naturally since they are higher than ground level.

When the pond is fully constructed and the clear water allowed to stand for a week or two, it is time for fish body weight per day; with kitchen wastes, percent of body weight. This formula is designed to produce a 3 percent weight gain per day.