Freshwater Aquarium

White worms (enchytraeus Albidus) are one of life foods that can be cultivated by the aquarist. They are small terrestrial worms, which are useful because they can be cultured easily, and so are available when needed.

Matured white worms (2cm long) are grown in boxes of damp soil feeding on pieces of bread or baby cereal food placed on the surface where they are scraped off when needed and used from a worm feeder.

Compost worms (Eisenia foetida) are another type of worms suitable for aquarium fish. They are great for larger fishes and can be chopped up for smaller fishes or processed into a jelly food.

Fish should not be fed with worms exclusively as they are high fat content and can cause obesity.

Microworms (nematodes) are another good food for fry, and can be fed to smaller fry than can brine shrimp. Microworms can be raised in plastic containers on a mixture of corn meal, water, and baker’s yeast.

Another type is Baby brine. Baby brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are the perfect food for almost all baby fish, and small adult fish such as tetras as well. Very small fry (like those of most egg scatterers) can not eat brine shrimp immediately, but larger fry (such as livebearers and most cichlids) can start out on brine shrimp.

Brine shrimp are hatched in salt water from commercially available dry eggs. They are usually hatched in some sort of funnel with an airstone at the point of the funnel. An inverted plastic 2-liter pop bottle with the bottom cut off works well (from article titled Fish foods for dummy by Grant Gussie)

Daphnia are tiny water fleas, which are found in large numbers in ponds during the warm months of the year especially farmyard ponds that contain rotting organic matter. They are available live from very few dealers.

The animal is very nutritious and hardly any fish will refuse them. If it is used as part of a mixed diet the fish may refuse to ease other food hence, it is advisable not to mix daphnia with other foods.

Since the water fleas feed predominantly on algae from which they obtain oil, they laxative properly by relieving fishes of constipation and indigestion, hence they are confined space of any aquarium.

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Have you ever experienced collecting coins while at the same time fighting the aliens and feeding the fish? You may think that such thing does not exist, but it does. It is the game that would really make you go insane. People who know it call it the insane aquarium.

Insane aquarium is an action puzzle game. It allows you to feed your fishes, watch the aquarium and captivates the underworld. You can use your funds when you needed to buy for new fishes, unlock the secrets of the pets or upgrade your aquarium.

However, you have to be careful and alert. There are aliens that love seafood which might destroy your aquarium. Meaning, you really have to watch out for them. It is all up to you on how you will defend your fishes and your aquarium from the aliens.

Insane Aquarium Features

1. Four types of game. They are: Trial, Adventure, Time, Virtual Tank and the Challenge.

2. Amazing sounds and graphics
3. Defeat terrifying aliens
4. Supply your aquarium or virtual tank with new fishes
5. Make your own customized aquarium screensaver

In playing the insane aquarium

The game usually starts with only 2 fishes in the aquarium. You should take care of the fishes. You should also keep the aliens away from the fishes which appear from time to time to eat them.

Take care of your fish and you will earn coins or money from them. Collect the coins and use them to buy supplies or upgrades for any of the following:

Buy Fish - a button will allow you to buy more fishes.
Food - you can upgrade the food for you not to feed your pets very often.
Food Quantity - you can upgrade the amount of food pellets which you can give to your fish.
Buy Carnivore - some of your fish will not consume the food that you drop, so you must feed them with other alternative.
Weapon Upgrade - you will have the chance to upgrade your weapon which will allow you to destroy the terrifying aliens more quickly.
Purchase Egg Piece - The objective of each stage is to be able to obtain the 3 egg pieces before you proceed to the next stage.

Insane aquarium is really an enjoyable fish game which has new pet, fishes and extraterrestrial aliens as you proceed and complete the game. The idea of the insane aquarium sound stupid but it is addicting and amusing. It has different levels and a replay ability which is excellent.

Insane aquarium is not really a crazy game. It is just insane, which make it the most played fish game online. Surely, your entire family will enjoy playing this game like many people do.

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Corner filter

As a beginner aquarium keeper, one of the first types of mechanical filter that you encounter is probably the trusty old corner filter. The corner filter is inexpensive to purchase compared to many other types of mechanical filters, and also easy to install. The basic corner filter will be a plastic container filled with a filter medium, e.g. foam or floss. An air pump will be used to force water through the filter, thus trapping larger debris. A corner filter will therefore often also function as an aerator for the aquarium.

Be careful when you clean your filter medium and never use hot water or detergents. When you have performed a water change, the discarded water can be used to wash the filter medium since it will have the right temperature, pH etc. The reason why you should handle your filter media so carefully is that it is a great home for beneficial bacteria. If colonies of nitrifying bacteria colonies the filter media, they will perform biological filtration and make it much easier for you to keep the water quality up in your aquarium. Hot water, detergents etc will however kill the bacteria and must therefore be avoided. If you need to replace the filter media, you should ideally leave a part of the old media in the canister filter. This way, the old bacteria can colonies the new filter media.

A downside with the corner filter is that many designs produce a lot of noise. You can of course find good looking corner filters, but a majority of the corner filters are actually quite ugly. If you have messy eaters, the corner filter will be rapidly clogged and require frequent cleaning. The corner filter can also be insufficient for aquariums that require more vigorous filtration.

Canister filter

For aquarium keepers that keep messy eaters or have large aquariums, the basic corner filter is often not enough to keep the water quality up. If you find your self in this situation, you might want to consider the canister filter. A canister filter is an external filter that is hung outside the aquarium or placed under the aquarium. Today you can also find canister filters that are located inside aquariums (submersible canister filters), but they are much less common than external canister filters. The inside of a canister filter will typically contain a micron filter cartridge, glass wool or similar types of filter media. Waster is then pumped through the canister filter, and larger debris is caught in the media. This makes the canister filter quite similar to the basic corner filter, only much larger and more powerful. You can also add a wet-dry wheel to your canister filter to promote biological filtration.

Just like with the corner filter, you must clean your canister filter frequently to prevent clogging. If the caught debris is left too long in the canister filter, they will start decomposing and can pollute the water. A negative aspect of the canister filter is of course that it requires a lot of space. A submersible canister filter will take up a lot of space and look ugly inside the aquarium, while an external canister filter will take up a lot of space and look ugly somewhere outside the aquarium. Careful planning can be the solution here; you can for instance hide the external canister filter in a piece of aquarium furniture. Just keep in mind that it must be easy to access the canister filter, since it requires frequent cleaning. Never use soap or hot water when cleaning your filter.

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