|
|
 |
|
|
Page
2 about
Preventative
Aquarium Maintenance |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This
page contains Customer Comments and our Replies
about Aquarium Maintenance. Click
here to go back to the first page about Aquarium
Maintenance.
|
|
|
|
|
The advertisement, shown below, links to
this advertiser's web site. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Customer Comments
|
|
|
Hi Agian, ... I recently
did some 30% water changed
when I got home from work
on my 20 G tank of Oranda's
(about Med to Large in sizes).
I added aqua salt (1teaspoonful
per 5 G), then I noticed
few hours later that most
of my fish stayed at the
bottom not moving or not
as happy as before. I wondered
what was the cause (shock?
stress?).
What should I do? When do
I add salt? Any medication
to use. I also add quick
cure (1 drop / 1 G). Please
get back to me as soon as
possible. I appreciate your
assistance to this. Thank
you for putting up your
site.
Gary C.
Cerritos, CA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply.
Hello Gary. Your fish are crashed on the bottom,
which is one of the Signs of Stress and Disease.
Click
here for more information about the Signs of
Stress and Disease min fish.
I don't think it
was the Aquarium Salt or the Quick Cure that you
added to your aquarium that caused your fish to
crash on the bottom. You changed too much water
at one time. Do not changed more than 20% of the
water in your aquarium on one day.
Here and there on
the internet I read advice saying to change 50%
of the water once a month. This may work. It may
even work most of the time. But my experience is
that it won't work all the time. Changing 20% or
less of the water in your aquarium will very rarely
cause problems. We recommend that you change 20%
twice a week. Click
here for information about how to calculate
20% of your aquarium.
There is not much
you can do for your fish now. They may naturally
recover from the stress and get up off the bottom
of your aquarium in a day or two. I hope so. I hope
you and others will benefit from you experience
and not change more than 20% of the water in any
aquarium, unless you have a disaster that ruins
the quality of the your fish's water.
|
|
|
|
The advertisement, shown below, links to
this advertiser's web site. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Customer Comments
|
|
|
Hi, I would like to say
my warm Thank You for your
immediate reply. My fish
are all recovered and back
to normal ... whhhoooooooo!
Gary |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply.
Hello again Gary. Good, we're glad to read that
your fish recovered. Front time to time we get an
email that says we're exaggerating about the problems
caused by changing more that 20% of the water on
one day.
But once in a while
changing more than 20% does cause problems. We think
that the ideal schedule is to change 20% of the
water twice a week.
|
|
|
|
The advertisement, shown below, links to
this advertiser's web site. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Customer Comments
|
|
|
HI when you change the water
in the aquarium can you change
it with stores gallons of water
rather then home water.
Thanks
ad |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply.
Hello. Yes you can use bottled drinking water, which
costs about 50 cents a gallon in some stores. Tap
water from the faucet usually costs less than 1
cent a gallon.
If you change 4 gallons in a 20-gallon aquarium
twice a week for a year, it will cost about $200.00
more for the bottled water. So most aquarists decide
to use tap water, which is just as good for the
fish in most cases.
However, we usually
recommend using bottled water in fish bowls, because
they use much less water, so using bottled water
does not much to the cost maintaining a fish bowl,
and bottled water seems to work better in fish bowls
for many people.
|
|
|
|
|
|
The advertisement, shown below, links to
this advertiser's web site. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click
here to hear a
Special Interview on Pet Fish Talk about the EcoBio-Block
Family of Products, which are very effective at keeping
aquarium water clear. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The advertisement, shown below, links to
this advertiser's web site. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The advertisement, shown below, links to
this advertiser's web site. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click
here
to verify our "PayPal Reputation",
which shows we have been selling on PayPal since 2002,
and we've sold items to thousands of satisfied customers.
|
|
|
|
|
Holliday Gift Idea
|
|
 |
PayPal Gift Certificates
|
|
|
Click on
the orange button, just below, to buy
a PayPal Gift Certificate for
someone, who loves pet fish.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Best Selling
Books |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Click here
now to order The Simple
Guide to Freshwater
Aquariums, a bestselling
reference, offering an
easy-to-understand look at
setting up and maintaining a
successful first freshwater
aquarium. |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Click here
now
to order The New Marine
Aquarium: Step-By-Step setup
and stocking Guide, the best
selling book about starting
a new marine aquarium.
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Click
here
now to order 500 Freshwater
Aquarium Fish: A Visual
Reference to the Most
Popular Species, a beautiful
book, lovingly written and
illustrated, with
information for the beginner
or the longtime enthusiast. |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Click here
now to order Fancy Goldfish:
A Complete Guide ... by Eric L. Johnson,
DMV, and Richard E. Hess. The most
encompassing and thorough treatment of the
fancy goldfish hobby to date. Hardcover with
176 pages. |
|
|
|
|
Click here
now for many more fishy
books. |
|
We hope these suggestions help!
;^ } |
|
|
|
Amazon Prime
|
•
Unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping
•
No minimum order size
•
One-Day shipping for $3.99/item
•
Unlimited, commercial-free, instant
streaming
of 5,000 movies and TV shows.
•
Join Amazon Prime for $79/year.
Click
here
now to learn more about Amazon
Prime. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
About our Fish Photographs ...
|
|
Almost all the photographs and videos, shown on this web site, were taken
by us in our aquariums of our fish. Compare the healthy,
beautiful, energetic fish in our beautiful aquariums to the
fish in our competitors pictures. Their fish often look thin
with clamped fins and poor color.
We buy the highest quality fish, produced by the best fish
farms or caught by the best collectors of wild fish, then we take incredibly good care of our fish in our beautiful aquariums. If you compare the pictures on this site to our competitors pictures, you can instantly see, our fish and aquariums are better!
;^ }
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
How
to Customize
this Page
|
|
If this web page looks too small or too narrow, hold down
the keyboard key marked "Ctrl" then press down on the key
marked +, and this web page should get bigger. If you overdo it,
and this page gets too big, hold down the same "Ctrl" key
and press down on the key marked - to make this page
smaller.
Repeat, until this
page looks just right to you. In this way you can customize
the appearance of our website in your computer. This tip
will work simultaneously on all the pages in this website,
and your computer should remember what you've done the next
time you come back to this site, unless you're using an
ancient version of a browser. ;^
o
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
