Fishkeeping is a hobby concerned with keeping fish in a home aquarium (fish tank) or garden pond.
In my article I will be focusing only on keeping fish in a tank.
Types of fishkeeping
There are two main categories of fishkeeping: freshwater and saltwater.
Freshwater fishkeeping
Fish that live in inland water bodies, rivers, streams and lakes are freshwater fish. Freshwater fishkeeping is the most popular branch of this hobby. We can distinguish two most popular types of freshwater tanks: a community tank and a biotope tank. A community tank is a tank containing a variety of peaceful species. A Biotope tank is a tank that tries to simulate a particular geographic location by combining fish and decoration specific for that location.
Saltwater fishkeeping
Fish that live in openwater in the sea are saltwater fish. Saltwater fishkeeping is the most difficult to maintain and most expensive branch of this hobby. It is best to have some major experience in freshwater fishkeeping before starting a saltwater tank.
Dutch Aquarium
We can distinguish another group of fishkeepers that actually don’t keep fish in their tanks – they focus on aquarist plants. Such “plant only” tanks are also known as the 'Dutch Aquarium'.
What should I choose ?
If I got you interested in this hobby you might be asking yourself this question.
The answer is, if you’re a beginner, definitely go freshwater. However if you insist on going saltwater I recommend to start with a freshwater tank, gain some experience and when you feel enough confident and have the money go saltwater.
If you’re not convinced yet I recommend a trip to the Warsaw ZOO so you can see it with your own eyes. They have a large number of beautiful freshwater and saltwater tanks.
If any of you have a fish tank, please share and write something about it.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishkeeping
http://aquariumhobbyist.com/artoffishkeeping/
http://www.fishyou.com/
http://www.freshwatertropicalfishkeeping.com/
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ReplyDeleteHow many fish you have and are they freshwater or saltwater?
Unfortunately right now I don't have a fish tank. I used to have a 200 liter freshwater tank with about 40-50 fish. One time I was cleaning it and accidentally hit the glass a bit to hard and it cracked. Than I started to have less and less time so I didn't buy a new one.
ReplyDeleteHi, I used to have suc a tank but smaller one around 75 liter. In this aquarium I had gupiki, mieczyki, skalary and a sum as I remember, but it wa swhen I was in primary school. I even multiplied mieczyki. It was quite a hard work to keep spawns in the other smaller tank.
ReplyDeleteIt was fun but by parents gave fishes back to zoo because I lost interest in keeping them so calle dalive.
My brother owns a fishtank. He puts a lot of free to keep it clean and good looking. I cannot ad anything more because I am not keen on the subject.
ReplyDeleteSaltwater fishtank looks nice but i would look stupid saying "daj glos" to it ;p
ReplyDeleteTaking cat (or dog) for a walk seems better for me ;d
and you can't buy clothes for a fish
ReplyDeleteFish tank can be used as a decoration in many interiors – it looks great. I can tell because my friend owns one. This hobby is rather not for me because keeping the tank clean is in my opinion a hard work.
ReplyDeleteAndrzej: Maybe they will come up with swimsuits for fishes :)
I respect people who have fish tanks in their homes - it takes a lot of time to keep it in good, clean condition. It is not for me.
ReplyDeleteI prefer to go diving and swimming with great colorful fish in huge natural aquarium, for example in Red Sea;). You can enjoy watching and observing how the underwater life goes...
It's an awsome hobby! I had over one hundred different types of fishes but after a while it become a boring for me and I didn't have time to keep them any longer. This hobby requires a lot of hard work and huge knowledge about fishes and theirs natural environment.
ReplyDeleteI tried it about 5 years a go. I had 120 l. aquarium it looked really nice in my room. But as soon as I realized how hard is to keep it clean I closed my "plantation". Since then I prefer dogs ;]
ReplyDeleteI think that having fish tank is boring, because it is impossible to have any contact with fishes. You can talk to them, but they do not respond your speach, you can not touch them. All you can do in general is to feed them...
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