Setting Up a New Aquarium

I used to keep a 55 gallon aquarium many years ago. Here is an old photo from Oct 2004.

55G Aquarium from Oct 2004

I had this aquarium till about 2006 when I had to move, and could not take the aquarium with me. Aquariums are very different from other pets that people keep. You are not attached so much to an individual fish, but to the aquarium as a whole. An aquarium is a complete living system which as a whole is healthy and happy, or sick and sad. As a fish keeper, your goal is to keep the aquarium, the ecosystem, healthy, not so much an individual fish. As such, an individual fish dying occasionally is expected and not too distressing. What is extremely distressing is a mass death or mass sickness of fishes in your care, because that signals that the system as a whole has crashed and that is terrible.

Anyway, after a four year hiatus, I have decided to keep an aquarium once again. I intend to keep a log of its progress in this blog. The posts will be backdated to track the progress of the aquarium. All posts will get tagged with aquarium.