Blues Aquarium

12/05/2024

Mother's Day 2024 celebrates mothers' strength and bond. Families express gratitude through gestures, messages, and acts of kindness, honoring remarkable women worldwide.

01/05/2024

𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧 𝘿𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 #𝙛𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙪𝙢 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙜𝙜. 🐠 𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝘼𝙇 𝙇𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙎 𝘿𝘼𝙔🏋️‍♂️👩‍🔧 💪💖

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23/04/2024

That sounds like a delightful image! A fish immersed in a good book for 📖📕WORLD BOOK DAY 📘📚 is quite a whimsical and charming idea. It sparks the imagination and reminds us that the joy of reading can reach unexpected places. If only we could know what book the fish is reading! What book would you imagine the fish enjoying?

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22/04/2024

Happy Earth Day! Let’s protect and cherish our planet’s resources

17/04/2024

Can I keep soft water fish in hard water?

So many text books that say that keeping soft water fish in hard water is better than the reverse, but it will still shorten their lives.

Why? Take a breath in, now let that breath out. You released CO2, CO2 in a liquid, water, your blood, bottle of cola, will form carbonic acid, which makes that liquid more acidic. That mechanism of breathing in and out allows your blood to maintain a level pH, and that means that your cells never have to alter things to keep pumping things in and out of your cells as the pH changes. You can get rid of waste easily, there is no gradient for your body to fight against.

But fish are surrounded by water not air, and that acid-base level that we can maintain by breathing, isn’t as straight forward for them.

For the most we’ll be looking at the function of the gills here, as that’s enough complications for a Monday morning. But a fun aside here, air-breathing fish regulate their blood pH differently to water-breathing fish.

In general fish control their blood pH by exchanging H+, and HCO3 ions with the surrounding environment. Their gills and kidneys are the main two controlling factors for this. For soft water fish they also excrete Ammonium as a part of this process.

This leads us to the first issue, at higher pH the excretion of ammonia drops, and the removal of CO2 increases. This is because in a more appropriate rang the NH3 is removed from the bloodstream, and becomes NH4 due to H+ ions in the water, at extremes that are no H+ ions, so the concentration of NH3 builds up outside the fish, and no gradient is created to allow the ammonia to leave the fish.

On top of this the exchange of salts from outside the gills reduces, and the salt in the blood starts to drop.

Now that’s been shown experimentally at the extreme ends, but biology tends to show these things on a scale. So no this isn’t going to happen immediately, and the fish has ways to cope, specifically by accumulating other ions in the muscles and organs to help offset these changes. This is fine if your local river or lake gets a bit more alkaline because an algae bloom has stripped all the CO2 from the water. But not if you’ve been put in a tank where the pH is going to be too high for the rest of your life, however short that might be.

Softwater fish have two main adaptations, they have a high affinity to uptake calcium, and they utilise the CO2 in their water to protect against low pH. In alkaline waters there is excess Calcium and a lot less CO2. This can lead to loss of some gill function, uptake of excess Calcium, and above all a fish that isn’t as healthy as it could be.

The final one is one that I think should be considered just as much. In general soft water fish have evolved in a tannin rich low pH environment, and so has their immune systems. There are a number of diseases that thrive in harder waters, that these fish have no immunity or defences against. A classic example is hole in the head disease and Rams. Just a few months in harder water and these little guys will be showing all the symptoms, and it tends to be treatment resistant whilst they’re in hard water. Do other species of cichlid that live in harder waters also get HITH? Yes, but not in the same numbers as Rams in water that’s too hard for them.

If there were only soft water fish in the hobby, and you had no way to reduce the hardness of your water I would have some sympathy. But I live in a hard water area. I have two tanks that I reduce the hardness in, via RO water, and the rest I just enjoy the huge number of hard water fish that are available. You get to choose what fish you take home from the shop. At least give them the correct water to survive in. If I reduced the amount of CO2 you could get out of your body you’d suffer from respiratory acidosis. You’d feel short of breath, be exhausted, have headaches, be confused, you’d probably sweat a lot, not be able to sleep properly, your memory would be shot, and you’d have trouble walking properly. But you wouldn’t die immediately, in fact you’d probably get a few years before the organ failure, seizures, kidney damage etc killed you. Does that make it okay?

14/04/2024

இனிய தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்! 🌟
Happy Tamil New Year! 🌟 May this year be filled with joy, prosperity, and blessings!🎉"

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12/04/2024

Why do you aquascape?

Aquascaper 1500, 18 months old.

Powered by ADA Solar RGB Lighting, Eheim 600T filtration, Strideways CO2, ADA Amazonia Soil and Power Sand.

11/04/2024

May each moment of this Ramadan day be filled with joy, harmony, and spiritual enlightenment. Ramadan Kareem!🌙🕌✨

09/04/2024

Happy Ugadi! 🌸🎉 May this New Year bring you abundant joy, prosperity, and success! 🌟✨ Wishing you a year filled with love, laughter, and endless blessings! 🌼🌈
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31/03/2024

31/03/2024

Let the 𝑬𝑮𝑮 𝑯𝑼𝑵𝑻 begin, comment your answer!🪺
Happy Easter, Scapers!🤗🪺

22/03/2024

Today is World Water Day, and for us here at Fluval, it's a big one!

Water can create peace or spark conflict. This , let’s unite and use water to build a more peaceful future!

Learn more: www.worldwaterday.org

22/03/2024

Join us in celebrating World Water Day as we raise awareness about the importance of freshwater and advocate for the sustainable management of this precious resource.
Let's come together to ensure access to clean water for all! 💧💙

22/03/2024

🌿Gorgeous tank under☀ ☘
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08/03/2024

Happy Women's Day

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26/02/2024

20/02/2024

Lush growth ☘️

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19/02/2024

Plant Active Enzymes

Growth enhancer for aquarium plants

Bio-enzymes activate cell division and improve growth

Reactivates unused plant nutrients

For splendid plants and vibrant colors

Helps to prevent growth stagnation

Acts preventively against algae by sustainably promoting plant growth

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14/02/2024

"Swim into the Blues Aquarium of Love this Valentine's Day!"💖
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09/02/2024

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04/02/2024

Planted aquarium Blues Aquarium

01/02/2024

Hi it is pleasure to release our brand new product Chihiros co2 regulator mate, compatible with our co2 Bluetooth controller, it has special feature easy way to fill the water into bubble counter, will you like it?

23/01/2024

LEVEL 2 - FOR HEAVILY PLANTED AQUARIA

With many and demanding plants and good growing conditions - such as strong light and CO2 - the needs and nutrient uptake of the plant also increase. This type of aquarium is not only popular with aquascapers, but is also very popular with new aquarists. We have developed our Level 2 care especially for these aquaria. With high-performance fertilizers, macronutrients and individual nutrients, you are equipped for every eventuality.

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23/01/2024

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15/01/2024

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