Taking Care of Your Desktop Aquarium

Proper care and maintenance is very important to ensure you have happy and healthy fish. There are several things that you will need to do to take care of your desktop aquarium. Since you just invested a good deal of money into only not the fish tank itself but in the fish that you are going to stock it with, it makes sense to take some time to learn about the things you need to do to maintain your tank. Doing so is not necessarily hard to do, but it is something that you need to do if you plan to keep your tank up and running and your investment in fish well worth it. It is not hard to do though.

To help you, here is a checklist of the things that you need to do to keep your desktop aquarium up and running at its best level.

• Test your water every two weeks. There are several things that you need to test the water for, this is especially important if you have a salt water aquarium. These include the ammonia levels, the salinity level, the pH level, the nitrite and the nitrate levels. These things are easy to test for and really only take seconds to do. You will want to know what the normal levels of these items should be, which you can easily learn from your pet store clerk prior to purchasing your fish.

• If your level of pH is too high, you can adjust it by adding one tablespoon at a time of baking soda to the water. Make sure to allow it to completely dissolve before adding more.

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