Water for aquarium at home

Aquarium inhabitants completely depend on the state of water in their glass house. Alas, it's impossible to get a transparent liquid with normal characteristics from the tap right away. Public utilities are going through hard times and either clean it up badly or run a terrible dose of reagents into the pipes killing all life. Therefore, knowing how to prepare water for your aquarium in normal home conditions is extremely important for all fish lovers. It turns out that the technology here is quite simple and the entire list of works can be carried out by ordinary aquarists.

How to quickly prepare water for the aquarium at home?

Many believe that if the liquid from the water pipe is so bad that you can not drink it without filters at all, then it's better to use chemically distilled water for these purposes. But this option is not an optimal solution. Experienced aquarists believe that there are no mineral components in it, without which small inhabitants also can not do without. Therefore, in the absence of better methods, we choose the moment when pure water without rust starts to flow from the tap, we put it into a suitable container and begin to defend it. An important point - in hot water there is almost always chlorine, so it is better not to use it.

In the question of how much water for the domestic aquarium selected from the water pipe should support, there are no exact terms. But usually two days is enough to get rid of chlorine and other unwanted impurities. This period is sufficient to heat the liquid to room temperature (24-26 °). If you fill your aquarium for the first time, then often there is some turbidity in it. Microscopic organisms develop strongly, which causes such an effect. After the onset of biological equilibrium, the situation is normalized. Worse, when the fluid becomes turbid in the old aquarium, then it is desirable to review the frequency of feeding the fish and clean it .

Another important parameter for water is rigidity, which can be measured with simple tests. Most fish are suitable for pH 6.5-8. By the way, a sharp fluctuation of this magnitude is very harmful. If it quickly falls, then your pets can first reduce their vital activity, and then die. High water hardness for fish in the aquarium is also harmful. It can be reduced by simply boiling the liquid that you plan to use for substitution. Note that it is not recommended to completely change the water in the tank. Usually, it is partially replaced in the amount of up to 1/5 of the total volume, with the frequency of such operations once for 7 days.