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Aquarium and Fishkeeping - Everything But The Tank, and Fish
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items Everything you need to keep your aquarium healthy, and expand your enjoynment of this wonderful hobby!
Sections
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Plants
Water Quality
Gadgets
Aquarium Add-Ins
Food
Plants
Planting house plants in the aquarium is easy, very fun, and very pretty.
Hanging Aquarium Planter Cups
Plants need nutrients. These tabs are designed to be buried into the substrate in your aquariu. These are fish, shrimp and snail safe, and produced by Nature Aquariums.
Root Tabs
Water Quality
Test strips is an absolute essential. If something is wrong with your aquarium, these can give you a good idea of what is wrong. They are also very helpful to ensure water quality before putting fish in a tank.
Aquarium Test Strips
While the test strips are great to have, they do not provide accurate measurements. They can tell you if a value is within a certain range, but not give a specific value. That is where this kit comes in.
Test Kit
Nature Aquariums is a site run by knowledgable people who want the best for your fish tank. This page contains a lot of easy to understand information on aquarium related topics.
Aquarium Resources
A water conditioner is essential. Depending on where you live, and where your water comes from, it may be treated with chlorine and contain some minerals in excess. This binds to those molecules, and makes them non-reactive.
Especially important if you keep shrimp as they are very sensitive to copper. It will last you a long time, and this brand is one of the cheapest. It har been on the market a long time, and is tried and testet to be safe for your aquarium´s inhabitan...
Especially important if you keep shrimp as they are very sensitive to copper. It will last you a long time, and this brand is one of the cheapest. It har been on the market a long time, and is tried and testet to be safe for your aquarium´s inhabitan...
Water Conditioner
The ammonia alert is a sensor you put in your aquarium, that changes colour depending on the nitrate levels in the water. It lasts a year, and removes the need for constantly checking with kits and test strips
Seachem Ammonia Alert
Gadgets
I use this one for a lot of things; feeding, cleaning, removing snails, debris, and collecting water for testing. plus it´s dirt cheap
Baster
Planaria Sucks. This little container might help you battle it. Place a little food in it,and bury it in the substrate, and check every morning. Consistent use of this can get rid of them for you. You do need to be consistent, though. It is no quick ...
It also catches small baby snails
It also catches small baby snails
Planaria Trap
A good pair of long scissors and tweezers are an absolute must. It makes trimming plants, and moving stuff around in your aquarium much easies!
Long Aquascaping Tools
For when you aquarium is overrun by tiny snail babies. Put a small snack in the middle, and leave this in your tank, and they will find their way inside.
Snail Trap
To stop algae growth caused by sunshine. If your aquarium is placed a little to close to a window, algae is sure to cover the glass in a few months. Window film is an easy an inexpensive way to block the harshest sun from shining into your aquarium.
UV Blocking Window Film
Aquarium Add-Ins
You don´t need to put things in your aquarium. If you like the clean look of a bare tank, and only have big fish that need a lot of food, this might not be for you. If you like to make your tank a natual environment with lots of dirrent food sources ...
Almond leaves increases microbial life in the aquarium, and serves as a surface for biofilm to grow on. Fry and snails love to hang around and under leaves like this, as they feel safe. Shrimp love to snack on the biofilm as well.
Tropical Almond Leaves
These are great if you want to add a lot of tannins to your aquarium, or if you want to go all in on that blackwater look.
Try putting one in a glass of water first, to gauge how dark it becomes, depending on when they are picked, they may contain ALOT of tannins.
Try putting one in a glass of water first, to gauge how dark it becomes, depending on when they are picked, they may contain ALOT of tannins.
Alder Cones
Food
Fish food is not always enough, or the best for all the other little critters you keep in your aquarium. GIving snails and shrimp food meant for them is so entertaing to watch as well! These things are great gifts for any aquarium enthusiast with shr...
Shrimp Lollies are thin sticks covered in shrimp food. Shrimp loves them, and they gather up and down the stick to eat. Great way to lure the shrimp out, so you can watch these funny little creatures scurry up and down eating.
Shrimp Lollies
Bacter AE is one of those products that is hailed to high heaven in the hobby, and for good reason.
The powder encourages biofilm to grow in your aquarium by adding microorganisms and amino enzymes. Biofilm is one of the main feeds of shrimp in an aquarium. The shrimp will also snack on any powder residue they can find on the surface. They go absol...
This is one of those things that improves upon the food web in your aquarium, and is especially good if you have many shrimp, a well filtered tank, a new tank, and or few plants.
The powder encourages biofilm to grow in your aquarium by adding microorganisms and amino enzymes. Biofilm is one of the main feeds of shrimp in an aquarium. The shrimp will also snack on any powder residue they can find on the surface. They go absol...
This is one of those things that improves upon the food web in your aquarium, and is especially good if you have many shrimp, a well filtered tank, a new tank, and or few plants.
Bacter AE - Shrimp Crack
I love snello. It is a very hard jello, cut into small pieces, for your snail friends. If you have a lot of snails, there might not be enough algae for them to snack on, and depending on the species, algae might not be sufficient in covering their ne...
This kit contains everything you need to blend it yourself at home.
I love watching my snails come slithering from all corners of the tank, to eat some snello. My Amano shrimp absolutely loves it as well, and sometimes tries to steal it…
This kit contains everything you need to blend it yourself at home.
I love watching my snails come slithering from all corners of the tank, to eat some snello. My Amano shrimp absolutely loves it as well, and sometimes tries to steal it…
Snello Kit