Glass Aquarium Fishes
The fresh water is nothing but ornamental
fishes kept in glass container or quibbed aquarium known as fish tank.
These fishes tank are decorated by water dwelling plants and
animal with ornamental fishes.
In 19th
century 1st modern glass aquarium was developed by Robert
Warrington. Now a day fish tanks are available in various shape and size.
Aquarium tanks are
prepared with glass sides and bottom. The glass plates are fixed by aquarium
cement. The tanks are generally rectangular in shape. The shallow and wide
tanks are better for aquarium. The ideal size of aquarium tank may be 60 x
30 x 30cm or 90 x 30 x 40cm.
It is also important to
have a cover with establishment for mounting lights and feeding. The tanks are
cleaned with tap water. The aquarium tank may be placed near a window so that
it gets adequate light. If the natural light is not adequate, artificial light
by means of bulbs or fluorescent tube may be provided.
Maintenance of aquarium :-
To keep fishes healthy
there is need of regular maintenance of
aquarium. The daily maintenance requires
checking of the fish movement and behavior. For health of fishes quality of water
must be of good.
Aeration with air pumps,
de-chlorination, and neutralize the water parameter in aquarium, removal of the remain of eaten food and other residue is
required.
Water condition and
Chemistry
This is vital and it
must be specific if the fish are to flourish in the long time.
Following are some
physical parameters are require for healt of aquarium fishes.
1. Temperature of 76 to 80 F
2. pH ‐7.6
to 8.4
3.
Specific Gravity ¬ 1.002 to 1.007 is
optimal.
Feeding
Most of the fish are
carnivores and their diet should imitate this. Some species of fishes require
lots of live food but this depends upon the species to be kept.
Water exchange
For proper conditions
of aquarium 10 to 20 % of water should be changed weakly.
Water quality of
Aquarium tank
Pure rain water or tap
water without chlorine content may be perfect for aquarium tank. Water should
be soft and not hard. For minimizing hardness
of water, water is mixed up with soft water.
Fresh water ornamental
fishes
Generally attractive
colored fishes are preferred by ornamental fish keeper. These fishes are selected on the basis of
color, size and body shape.
Following are some
ornamental fishes are kept in aquarium
Guppy :-
The guppy fishes are small colorful exotic These are small colorful fishes (3cm)
originated from Central America.
The colors of these fishes vary gratly. Female larger than male. Male
have large colored caudal fins with red, orange, black spots on body. These are omnivorous fishes.
Sword tail :
The tail of this fishes is long with yellow sward like caudal fin having black edges. . Hence called sward tail fish. A coloured strip present along the side of fish. In these fishes various colour variation are seen. Tail of female is without sward tail.
The tail of this fishes is long with yellow sward like caudal fin having black edges. . Hence called sward tail fish. A coloured strip present along the side of fish. In these fishes various colour variation are seen. Tail of female is without sward tail.
Platy :
Platy is the popular variety with black fins and black mouth. The body colour is yellow or red. The most common platy is the wag tail. These are omnivorous fishes preferred by majority of ornamental fish tank holder.
Platy is the popular variety with black fins and black mouth. The body colour is yellow or red. The most common platy is the wag tail. These are omnivorous fishes preferred by majority of ornamental fish tank holder.
Gourami :
Gourami are oval in shape with vertical bars on lateral side of
body. The pelvic fins are
filamentous. Kissing gourami, lipped
gourami, giant gourami pearl gourami etc are the popular varieties of gourami.
These are herbivorous fishes.
Fighting fish:
The male of fighting
fish are very aggressive. Hence, only one fish should be kept per tank is
advised. The male have graceful fins. The colour and development of fins vary
greatly in these species. Fighting
fishes are adopted to live in oxygen deficient water.
Angel fish:
The body of these
fishes is compressed laterally. The fins
are long and trailing These fishes have
laterally compressed disc like body. They have long extensive fins. Because of their elegant and graceful
swimming movement, these fishes are very
popular among the ornamental fish keeper.
Gold fish.
Every ornamental fish keeper prefers gold fishes in
fish tank, because of their shape and large caudal fins. These species were
developed in china. There are several varieties of gold fishes are fan tail, lion head moor, comet , shubunkin bubble-eye, pom-pom, etc.
