So, you have decided to rear pet fishes in your drawing room. Then, you should know the perfect list for maintain the same. Before bringing the pet fish to your home, you should know the basics of pet fish care.
Following are the calendar of operations for better maintenance of the fishes in your home aquarium.
Day-to-day Activities
You should not use soap to wash the bowl, which may act as a precursor for death of your fish. If you want to use your own well or bore water, you should treat the water with a special fish conditioner. The water should be changed once in 2-3 days. Your fish in the bowl should be fed daily.
Weekly Activities
You can clean your larger fish tank at least once a week. some of the fish owners advocating the practice of changing only 10-15% of water weekly once. All the other practices that are performing in the day-to-day activities should be repeated in the weekly activities.
Montly Package of Practices
Syphon out the bottom level gravel in your aquarium tank. The waste hides and debris in the bottom of the aquarium should be removed without fail.
Annual Maintenance Tips
Check the size of the fish in such a way that it won’t be too big for the bowl. This is the right time to change the present bowl to a larger one. Do check the air supplies and filters. If they need to be replaced, please do so.
Hope you have taken the above points to have a perfect pet fish care. But these points doesn’t hold if you are away from home leaving your pet fishes alone. So, read my next post Pet Fish Care
during travel.
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