what are the things required to prepare an aquarium & how to maintain it?
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The water first needs to be dechlorinared if using tap-water, use products sold at pet shops.  An aquarium needs to be cycling efficiently before it can support fish properly; bacteria that converts harmful nitrogenous waste (ammonia) into less harmfull stuff (nitrate) need to build up in the water, plants and substrate.  This bacteria may already be in the tank, but you can ensure it is by getting a plant, filter medium or substrate from a well established aquarium or buying commercialy products from your pet store.\nFirst you need to buy a few hardy fish, the number depending on the size of your tank. Platys and zebra danios are able to withstand a cycling tank and are ideal.\nThe fish will produce ammonia, this ammonia will build up and is very toxic, as levels of ammonia increase bacteria capable of converting ammonia into nitrite will build up. Nitrite is less deadly but levels of nitrite will increase until bacteria populations capable of converting nitrite into nitrate which is far less toxic ( you will still nedd to carry out weekly 10% water changes, using dechlorinated water, to ensure levels of nitrate don't get too high). After a number of weeks the tank will be able to cycle the waste of your fish from ammonia to nitrate, increase numbers of fish slowly, only 2-3 at a time.\nbuy test kits from your pet shop so you can monitor the various levels. \nBe patient, test your water, add few fish at a time and you'll soon have a healthy aquarium.
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GO TO:\nhttp://aquarium.ucsd.edu/challenger/index.cfm
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Too many to list them in a single answer.\n\nStarting with infrastructure:\n\nEmergency shower, other emergency equipment (fire extinguisher, eye-shower...)\n\nchemical-resistant benches, water leads, wastewater leads. Optionally gases, steam, deionized water.\nElectrical leads.\n\nflue, laminar flow workbenches...\n\nGlassware: lots of different forms, special glasses...\nCeramics, metal vessels...\n\nAnalytical instruments and machines, starting with stirrers, heaters or shakers, thermometres, electrodes, and going on to fully automatted multi-element analysis or biological reactors.\n\nYour average lab catalogue usually shows only part of what can be in a scientific chemistry laboratory.
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try a flotation tank experience. it is incredible...but you got to want to and you should not be claustrophobic or it'd be hell re-invented
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I got a very good idea, but you'll need lots of plants. \n\nFirst, get a rat/mouse/hamster and place it in a closed tank full of plants.\n\nAs these creatures require oxygen to live, we can test for the presence of oxygen by checking if it survives for at least an hour. \n\nAlso, remember to place the tank in a sunny area ([pray that the mouse doesn't get heat stroke =])\n\n\n\n\nYeah, and an additional fact is that oxygen supports burning, thus it is able to rekindle a glowing splint.
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I doubt that anyone would really be able to answer that unless he or she just so happened to work there.  I suggest calling or e-mailing someone from the aquarium.
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Okay here goes.First thing you need is great insect repellent to spray yourself completely to keep the nasty bugs away.Buy the strongest sun screen to protect your skin.Wear a hat to ward off sun/heat stroke.Buy 6 bottles of water and a cooler with ice to keep them cold.Make yourself some snack foods for lunch and for the munchies.I also brought hand wipes to clean the worm gunk and fish smell off my hands.Buy a cheap but good rod and real with a small tackle box filled with all the little goodies you may need.Remember above all if the fish is smaller than your hand throw the poor thing back into the water so it can grow some more.
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welld oint this can be tricky without proper sterile procedure... however it is not impossible...\n\n\nget a sleeve of plastic or glass petri dishes\n\nmix up a mixture of Malt Extract And Agar... and put it in a sealable vessle that can be pressure cooked or boiled at a high temperature...\n\nIn a clean environment after boiling or pressure cooking for about 15-25 minutes, \n\ntake the vessle and pour your agar plates...\n\ntake the dishes and let them cool in a very clean environment\n\nonce cool....\n\ntake a qtip and swab the inside of your mouth really well\n\nopen each plate and swab the surface with the qtip\n\nrepeat for each plate\n\nincubate the plates at room temperature for about 3 days or so\n\nyou should see some growth\n\nor you can do it this way\n\nhttp://www.science-projects.com/NAplates.htm\n\nwww . Science-Projects . com \n\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMaking Nutrient Agar ("NA") Plates\n \n| Site's Table of Contents | Site's Index |\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThere are several ways to make NA plates, all depending on what you have to start with. The well equipped person has clean and sterile empty petri plates, and a bottle of NA powder sitting on the shelf. That person needs only to follow the directions on the bottle. As it is the purpose of this website to assist those who, being mostly young students, have neither NA powder nor even petri plates. What are they to do? Here's what! \n\nPETRI PLATES FROM SCRATCH\n(click this to find ready-made plates) \n\nFirst, you must find something that simulates a petri plate. Rather shallow glass custard cups covered by a double thickness of aluminum foil works well. \n\nSecond, you must have the nutrient agar to put in them. What might you use as a alternative to the commercially available microbiological stuff? The answer is canned beef or chicken broth (supermarket) and agar (health foods store; sometimes called "agar agar"). \n\nThird, you must sterilize these things in appropriate combinations. Included in the following steps will be the way to use a pressure cooker. There is NO substitute for a pressure cooker or autoclave, which is an automated pressure cooker. Boiling is not a sterilizing condition. Boiling doesn't work! The only commonly employed sterilizing conditions are wet heat at 120°c (250°F) for 20 minutes (pressure cooker), or dry heat in excess of 190°c (375°F) or more for an hour or more (oven). \n\n\nMeasure and record the amount of water that half-fills a custard cup. \nDetermine the number of plates (custard cups) you will need to use, and from that the amount of medium you need to make to half-fill all the cups. \nEmpty a can of fatfree beef or chicken broth into a large measuring cup and dilute, if necessary, with water as per the instructions on the side of the can. Mix. Discard the excess beyond what you need for your cups. Pour this into a sauce pan. \nAdd 1 level teaspoon of agar per 2/3 cup of broth. Stir the required amount of agar into the COLD broth in the sauce pan. \nTurn on the heat, and with constant and continuous stirring and/or swirling bring just to a boil. Keep swirling, and then adding small amounts of heat, and do this until all the granules of agar are dissolved. Agar solutions burn very easily - just like making gravy (in which you have added another polysaccharide as a thickening agent). An alternative way to do it is to place the broth/agar mix into a glass bowl and place it in a microwave oven. But do this cautiously as the mix will suddenly foam up. So be ready to shut off the energy at any moment. Give the dissolving solution a swirl, and microwave a bit longer. Swirl and energize repeatedly until all the granules are dissolved.§ \nDistribute the hot medium among the cups you need. \nPlate pieces of double-thick aluminum foil over the cups so that at leas
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keep fishes\n\ngrow their feed like worms and bugs\n\nexpend your fish collection
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Definitely a clean water and damp cloth.  Don't use any cleaning agents.  The little book that you got inside the bag when you purchased it should have instructions, otherwise I tend to always ask the Louis Vuitton store attendant re care instructions when I purchased the bags.
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you need chlorine and need to check the ph and chlorine levels...you also need a vacumm to suck up all the crap that might fall in. if it has tiles a tile scrub, go to a store that sells that kind of stuff and ask!! good luck though!
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boil water and add teaspoon of salt, pour into container and refrigerate for a day\npour out and wash container\nsmell should be done
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75 Gallon saltwater reef aquarium.
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Run to a pool supply store and pick up a water PH kit...they aren't expensive and it's got directions.
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I don't think you can make a list of how many of things you need. Just be prepared for anything! Anyways congrats on your new grandbaby.
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heat coal in an oxygen free atmosphere. without oxygen it will not burn but bond of the carbon and hydrogen atoms will be broken.\n\nCheck out an aquarium store.
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You will need Chlorine gas. Due to the common ion effect the salt(Sodium Chloride) will precipitate out leaving the fresh water.\nMaterials Needed:\nChlorine gas\nSalt Water