Aquarium

Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 05:59

You might have heard of freecycle. It's a website where people give stuff away on. We got a ten-gallon fish tank on it. not only was it a tank, but it came with tons of supplies. We somehow wrestled it all together-the tank, hood, light, air pump, heater, and  plants. It also had a filter, but we couldn't figure it out, so we bought one from the store.

                                                                   BEFORE-AND-AFTER'S

 tank-Before

After

artificial plants-Before

After

filter-Before

After

If you look close, you can see a brown thing in the middle of this picture. it's a bulb for a live plant that will grow 6"-8" in 15 days. 

This is the heater.

 This blue thing you see is called an airstone. It's attatched to a plastic tube that leads to an air pump outside the tank that gives the fish oxygen. This is called an aeration system.

Here's all our supplies. Now maybe you can see why I said we "wrestled it together.":)

Here's the air pump...

   ...and here are the air bubbles it makes.

You probably noticed 2 things-1,we have a red backround. We taped up a piece of poster board. And 2, we don't have any fish! This is because you are supposed to wait a week or so before you put fish in, because you want the tank to mature a little, give the heater some time to heat up the water, the air pump to oxygenate the water, the filter to filter the water, etc. However, our filter came with a bio-bag,which is something in the filter that helps correct the water conditions. Also, we put a tablet in that dissolves and helps get the water ready for the fish. 

Kyle and I once tried to keep an aquarium. We already had a tank. We bought rocks, a filter, food and 2 Guppies, a small aquarium fish. They died after a while, probably because we didn't do the research we're doing now. When we do get our fish, we'll get Guppies, Tetras, and probably lots more. we might get an Angelfish, a beautiful tropical fish.

It's going to be a freshwater tank. Our dad used to have a saltwater one, and he said it's a lot of work to maintain the correct water conditions, and that the salt could get expensive. He also used to have a freshwater tank and knows a lot about them.

I'll be sure to add more pictures when we get the fish in it. If you think it looks good now, wait till you see it with the fish!

:-D

Posted by KatherineR on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:24 - Link

Hi Kenny!

I liked your post. Getting fish is fun isn't it? Your tank looks really nice! We once had crabs with fish. (We had two crabs.) It wasn't fun cleaning the tank,Because the female crab liked to hide in the filter! :-D

~Kate

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Posted by gaelin on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:36 - Link

Wow! I am SURE the fish'll love that!! LOL!
I sure would! : )
Gaelin