http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Nathan+Miller Pets Nathan Miller Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16904&ca=Pets A balanced diet for your aquarium fish is essential to thier survival. Most of the commercially available dry fish foods are almost always unbalanced. In many cases, the vitamin content will gradually decline at room temperature and since majority of the dry food for tropical fish commonly used will... Pets Nathan Miller Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16925&ca=Pets There are two areas of introducing new fish into an aquarium that you must be aware of: 1. Fish Quarantine Fish quarantine is one big, singular factor that must be observed strictly before you can be sure that your new fish is of good health and not an apostle of doom for the other inmates. Most new... Pets Nathan Miller Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16927&ca=Pets Aquariums have evolved into a very popular hobby, with about millions of aquarium and tropical fish enthusiasts worldwide. Starting in the 1850s (when the predecessor of the modern aquarium were first being developed as a novel curiosity) the ranks of aquarium keeping has grown as more sophisticate... Pets Nathan Miller Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16931&ca=Pets The world as we know it is in balance. Animals breathe in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide. Plant absorbs carbon dioxide and give off oxygen as part of there process of photosynthesis. Animals eat plants and animals wastes, feed plants. Water evaporated from the seas and come back to freshen the e... Pets Nathan Miller Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16727&ca=Pets Fish death is one of the main problems that beginner aquarist and even some expert aquarist face. It’s frustrating to the extent that most quit keeping aquarium fish. But fish death can be avoided. Most fish deaths are caused as a result of both an internal and external types parasites that compete... Pets Nathan Miller Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16737&ca=Pets Aquarium plants are as important to aquariums as water is to fish. Aquarium plants add more life to aquarium and make it to look beautiful while completing the aquarium community structure. The most important thing to bear in mind with plants is to form an attractive background, leaving ample space... Pets Nathan Miller Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16613&ca=Pets Cotton Mouth disease also know as Mouth Fungus is a disease your fish can get and it needs to be dealt with quickly. Cotton Mouth disease is not as common as the while spot disease, but, it is highly infectious and contagious. The victim fish shows a whitish fungus round the cheeks and lips. The li... Pets Nathan Miller Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16597&ca=Pets As we all know rivers and lakes are the natural habits for fish and other marine life. Rivers and lakes have large surface area which makes maximum provision of oxygen for fish survival possible. On the other hand an aquarium is not like river or lake, it has a smaller surface area and there is limi... Pets Nathan Miller Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16607&ca=Pets Eradication of encrusting algae could be done simply by periodically scraping the sides of the aquarium or scrubbing the rocks. For those with plastic plants and a completely white gravel bed, the situation could be more tasking as it would be necessary to bleach the rocks to remove all traces of a... Pets Nathan Miller Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=16612&ca=Pets Any new aquarium tank should first be given a thorough test to ensure that it is watertight. If after 12 hours there are no leaks, it may be emptied and placed in its final position. Now all is ready to set up the aquarium, for this work we shall require various items such as sand, rocks etc. These...