| It's not easy to find room for pets when you live | | | | Before purchasing your basic equipment, |
| in small homes or in city center apartment | | | | however, you really do need to consider how |
| buildings. However, rather than not keeping a pet | | | | much space you can allocate to your new fish |
| you might consider keeping fish. You may not be | | | | tank. After all, if everything goes well, your tank |
| able to cuddle them, or walk them on a leash, but | | | | and the fish it will contain are likely to be with you |
| they do look attractive when swimming around | | | | for a long time. So, rather than buy the biggest |
| their tank and their tanks make an ideal accent | | | | tank you can afford, focus on getting the one |
| piece to any room's decor. If you are keeping fish | | | | that fills the space you have allocated for it. Take |
| for the first time then it is essential that you learn | | | | into account the fact that you are going to have |
| as much as you can before getting your first | | | | to house the filter, air pump, and heater. You |
| tank - not least because you will have to decide | | | | would do well to consider installing a portrait |
| on whether you are going to keep tropical fish, | | | | aquarium which is a fish tank that is mounted on |
| freshwater fish, or salt water fish and, when you | | | | the wall. I think, in terms of a space saving fish |
| do decide, what kind you intend to keep and what | | | | tank, this ticks all the boxes. The general size of a |
| size. In fact, the choice is fairly extensive. For | | | | wall aquarium is about 18 inches long, and |
| those people who really do have diminutive living | | | | between 16 - 18 inches in height. They are usually |
| space, then a space saving fish tank is an | | | | about 4 - 6 inches deep. Whilst these are best in |
| absolutely essential criteria. | | | | terms of space saving, wall mounted fish tanks |
| A new fish tank needs to go through an evolving | | | | are more expensive to purchase and cost more |
| cycle before your new fish can settle in | | | | than other aquaria to maintain. |
| comfortably. An aquarium needs bacteria to | | | | At least the portrait aquarium won't get |
| process the ammonia produced by the fish's | | | | accidentally knocked over! Check out where the |
| waste matter and, as this cycle takes about eight | | | | pipes and electrical are and if there are any air |
| weeks to establish, only purchase a few fish at | | | | ducts to avoid. If the wall you have allocated is a |
| the beginning - and keep the more expensive | | | | stud wall you need to ensure you are able to |
| varieties until your tank has well and truly settled. | | | | locate the studs for the load to be attached to. |
| Fish really thrive in an environment that mimics | | | | There are a couple of ways to hang your |
| their own natural home conditions - they need | | | | aquarium: either build it into your wall, or hang it |
| places to hide, places to sleep, and places to | | | | from your wall. Another thing to take into account |
| swim. So, decorating your fish tank is not just to | | | | is the shape of the fish tank and the size of the |
| make it look attractive, but to keep your fish | | | | fish you intend to keep. They all matter if you |
| comfortable and as happy as possible. It is no | | | | and your fish are going to be happy with each |
| joke that happy animals make healthy animals - | | | | other. |
| and this includes the fish world as well! | | | | |