few tips for setting up an aquarium

i just thought that i might share with you some tips and advices for seting up your own aquariums or fish tanks

FYI, this is just my idea and my experience about aquariums, i am not saying that this is the best and the only way you have to do your aquarium, you can always do it in your own way or you can refer to someone else

ok, the very first thing you should know is the type of the fish or the animal that you want to keep, (now i only have experience about fresh water fish tanks, but i recently ventured in to the marine fish tanks also,, i will give you an update on that later)
now, for me there are 3 types of fish keeping

1- the ornamental type, some people just want to keep a one or two fishes in a small bowl or a smaller tank. most of the time it will be a single or a pair of gold fish, colorful guppy or Siamese Fighting Fish which i love most :)
2-the monster fish keepers,, these people will have huge aquariums and normally fishes that grow huge will be housed,, now monster fish keeping can be from Oscar fish, Giant Gourami, Arwana, Arapaima, Giant Catfish, Redtail Catfish and so on,,
3-the community tank lovers,, these people will own an average fish tank and it will contain many types of community fishes mostly it will be live bearer fishes-guppy, platty, molly and sword tail,,it might be mixed with different type of tetras, angels and anything which can be kept in that very same tank, that’s why its called a community tank

so as i said, before you even think about having a fishes, you should decide which type of the fish that you want to pet, in each mentioned cases above, the setup, maintenance and care is totally different, so it is not easy that u can change from a ornamental type to the monster fish keeping

the most important thing that you should keep in mind is that, these are live animals, meaning that you have to take care of them really really well!!!!!

once you decide the type, then comes the part where you have to spend for the setup, depending upon the type of the fish, you should have to give a special attention to the things that are going to be used for the tank, this includes, proper and adequate filtering systems, lighting, heating (if required) and the substrate of the tank

i think that’s it for now,,, i will give few ideas about the different type of filtering systems later......