I'm no slip of a boy any more and I'll look back to the days before the Juwel Rekord 800 when I set up my own exotic fish tank. I would have been on my hols and discovered the sector of tropical fish first hand and being a loud young thing thought I am able to master keeping those little beauties myself. So , card in hand I set off for my closest exotic fish shop (it was all pink and purple outside and somewhere near to the Elephant and Castle if I recollect right).
When I had more boxes and bags and bits and bobs than I knew what to do with and when I set the tank up everything looked great on the inside of the tank. All of the pumps, heaters, filters, day lights, night lights were great but not designed to work together and it looked a mess.
The important thing I had managed to forget was that once set up my new tank would be an additional piece of furniture in my home and the Heath Robinson look was truly misplaced in my 1980's style bachelor pad. What I needed was an integrated system like the Jewel Rekord 800 aquarium. This small baby is a real gift as it contains absolutely everything you are likely to need to get started but the biggest thing is that all of your bits and bobs, your wires, your filters and pumps are all integrated into the tank. Smartly concealed so that you can not see them, meaning you only ever have to take a look at your fish and not the mechanics.
Setting up a tank of this type (it is 110 litres and 80 x 30 x 45cm) is no mean feat. It's not just plug it in, force in 1 or 2 fish and away you go. Water needs to age so that chemicals in our tap water (chlorine essentially) don't harm your fish and the pumps and filters that keep that process moving along are also integrated in this system, concealed well out of view.
Nowadays many aquarium enthusiasts are drawn towards the even more spectacular world of the marine fish and there is a need for far more equipment to watch and maintain water quality. Protein skimmers are required to stop build ups of poisons in the water and this means, doubtless another device to clutter things up unless you choose the Pret a Porter equivalent of the aquarium world.
My story does not end there either. After months of setting up my tank and continuously introducing new stock and after losing some to the inescapable infections I finally ended up with my dream tank. A fully stocked world of light color movement and activity, talk about proud Fathers! A little shoal of busy Guppies, three or 4 imperious Angel Fish and a single brilliantly colored Siamese Fighting Fish, all living happily. Happily that was, until an errant dinner party guest (it was actually the Eighties blokes) kicked the heater wire by mistake which suggested no heat and dead fish inside.
When I had more boxes and bags and bits and bobs than I knew what to do with and when I set the tank up everything looked great on the inside of the tank. All of the pumps, heaters, filters, day lights, night lights were great but not designed to work together and it looked a mess.
The important thing I had managed to forget was that once set up my new tank would be an additional piece of furniture in my home and the Heath Robinson look was truly misplaced in my 1980's style bachelor pad. What I needed was an integrated system like the Jewel Rekord 800 aquarium. This small baby is a real gift as it contains absolutely everything you are likely to need to get started but the biggest thing is that all of your bits and bobs, your wires, your filters and pumps are all integrated into the tank. Smartly concealed so that you can not see them, meaning you only ever have to take a look at your fish and not the mechanics.
Setting up a tank of this type (it is 110 litres and 80 x 30 x 45cm) is no mean feat. It's not just plug it in, force in 1 or 2 fish and away you go. Water needs to age so that chemicals in our tap water (chlorine essentially) don't harm your fish and the pumps and filters that keep that process moving along are also integrated in this system, concealed well out of view.
Nowadays many aquarium enthusiasts are drawn towards the even more spectacular world of the marine fish and there is a need for far more equipment to watch and maintain water quality. Protein skimmers are required to stop build ups of poisons in the water and this means, doubtless another device to clutter things up unless you choose the Pret a Porter equivalent of the aquarium world.
My story does not end there either. After months of setting up my tank and continuously introducing new stock and after losing some to the inescapable infections I finally ended up with my dream tank. A fully stocked world of light color movement and activity, talk about proud Fathers! A little shoal of busy Guppies, three or 4 imperious Angel Fish and a single brilliantly colored Siamese Fighting Fish, all living happily. Happily that was, until an errant dinner party guest (it was actually the Eighties blokes) kicked the heater wire by mistake which suggested no heat and dead fish inside.
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If you purchase pet foods online then you may also find The Juwel Rekord 600 aquarium in our outlet, which is a solid fish tank that is great for beginners and also more experienced fish keepers.
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