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Setting Up an 18 Gallon Eclipse Freshwater Aquarium
How a 180 Gallon Saltwater Aquarium Works
Setting Up a 90 Gallon Bow Front Aquarium
How a 240 Gallon Saltwater Captive Reef Aquarium Works
Good Starter Fish for Freshwater Aquariums
Good Starter Fish for Saltwater Aquariums
Tools & Scrapers for Saltwater & Freshwater Aquariums
Water Chemistry in Saltwater & Freshwater Aquariums
Misconceptions About Saltwater Stingrays
Types of Fish Food for Saltwater & Freshwater Aquariums
Importance of Variety in Fish Food
Filter Maintenance for Saltwater & Freshwater Aquariums
Freshwater Aquarium Decorating Ideas
Decorating Aquariums with Live Freshwater Plants
Decorating Freshwater Aquariums with Themes
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Marc Grover is the co-owner of Underwater Depot. He and his business partner, Chris Bernie, have over 30 years of collective experience in the aquarium industry. They are experts in...read more
"Hi! I am Marc on behalf of expertvillage.com. I am getting a little further into aquarium maintenance. Let me first say that I can’t stress the importance of maintaining your aquarium on a regular basis. Generally speaking freshwater aquariums you do a water change and maintenance service on the aquarium about every four weeks, saltwater about two weeks, saltwater reef tanks about every week. Now the details of each one of them vary slightly but there are some basics that all of the maintenance are built upon. The number one basic that you are going to build upon for any maintenance is the water chemistry itself. You can’t tell by looking at an aquarium regardless of how clean it looks to your naked eye just how chemically clean or biologically clean it really is. You have to do a water test on it. The basic water test for most tanks are pH, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. When you get into saltwater you can add alkalinity, when you get into reef tanks you can add a plethora of things from calcium to strontium at all different levels that you have to test. If you need more information on this, please see us on our website at www.underwaterdepot.net. "
eHow Article: Water Chemistry in Saltwater & Freshwater Aquariums
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hamsj said
on 4/5/2009 what can I use to lower the general hardness of my aquarium water with live plants that does not contain phosphates?