Choosing a Fish Tank Power Filter

Video Transcript

"Ok, now keeping in mind that what we're really doing here in establishing an aquarium, is that we're taking these wild fish that live in the wild, and putting them in an artificial environment here, mainly our tank that we get to enjoy. And so, what we have to do is we're recreating what they would be experiencing in the wild. The two main things that go on in that situation, is in the tropics fish enjoy a lot of water, so it's constantly being filtered. So what we have to do, being that we're in a constrained area here, is we have to filter that water, doing what nature would normally do. The other thing of course, the temperature, we'll get to that later, we have to maintain a steady temperature. So, right now we're looking at filtration, and there have been tremendous strides in the pet industry to allow you to basically do a tremendous job of filtering."