10 common misconceptions about keeping fish, how many have you experienced?

Keeping fish really is not as simple as it seems. Many players who are just starting to get interested in fish keeping, or who are keeping fish for the first time, have quite a lot of wrong ideas. Keeping fish well is not just about having a fish tank, water and food. Today the editor will first tell you about the claims that are often misunderstood!

1. Fish needs are simple

Most ordinary people who are less informed think that keeping fish is very simple, isn't it just water and food? In fact, the knowledge behind keeping fish is huge! To explore it in depth takes quite a lot of effort. The important thing is attitude. As long as you have the heart, you can surely keep fish well.

2. Guppies are easy to start with?

Friends who want to keep fish will surely hear others recommend the easy-to-keep guppy (Poecilia reticulata), but are guppies really that simple, easy to keep and easy to start with? Not necessarily! Do not think that just because guppies do not die easily you can be careless. Many people also end up with them dying all over the place. You need to pay a bit of attention to water quality and more patiently look for problems, and do plenty of homework. Then it will not only be guppies that are easy to keep.

To keep fish well, having the heart for it is very important. It is not just occasionally tossing in some feed!

3. The bigger the fish tank, the better?

Many families nowadays live in apartments. If you insist on placing an oversized fish tank in a not-so-large floor area, it looks out of place, and in daily cleaning and maintenance, as well as feeding the fish, it will also cause relatively big trouble, making things hard on yourself!

4. Many ways to change water

Everyone has surely heard of very many water-change frequencies or methods. Some change it every day, some every three days, some every five days, some change half at a time, or thirty percent. In fact, changing water is a maintenance function. As long as the fish are healthy and well, it is ok!

Note: If changing the water turns into a situation where the fish will flip belly-up the moment you do not change it, that means the owner has quite a lot of things to improve, not just the water changes!

5. Round fish tanks look good

There are quite a lot of round fish tanks on the market, and very many novice fish keepers use them, because they look pretty and nice placed at home. But this kind of fish tank is bad both for keeping fish and for the fish themselves. A round fish tank cannot be fitted with some necessary equipment, and over the long term the surface of a round tank will damage the eyesight of the fish.

6. A large number is beauty

Many fish keepers like to keep all kinds of fish in the tank, grabbing in whatever they like. The more species and the more fish, the prettier the wrong idea, and they even think this way they will not be too bored without companions. In fact, too high a density may cause death by oxygen deprivation, so at this time you need to increase the dissolved oxygen content of the water.

7. Installing a faucet above or below

Some novice fish friends, for the convenience of changing water and cleaning, install a faucet above or below the fish tank. In summer this function is indeed convenient, but in winter it may not be very suitable. In winter you also must not change a large amount of water, and if conditions allow it is best to add warm water. Tap water has a relatively low temperature, and adding it directly will instantly change the water temperature too much, which is bad for the fish's health.

8. Complicated fish tank decorations

Many people, in order to make their fish tank prettier and more ornamental, place some small objects and stones inside for decoration, not realizing that many of their fish will get scratched because of too many of those decorations. This is something the keeper must pay attention to!

9. Considering fish species habits

Beginners, when choosing fish, only consider ornamental value, color matching and appearance, and forget to consider the most important point, which is whether they are compatible! Ignoring the habits of the fish species will cause them to fight, with deaths and injuries all over the place. That scene is simply...

10. Panicking when illness strikes

If you find a fish is sick, and in a panic, afraid of infection, you medicate and treat the whole tank together, thinking you can treat and at the same time prevent, in fact this will seriously damage the water quality balance, and may also make the other originally healthy fish show red flags in their bodies.

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