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Aquarium Maintenance Tips
Good aquarium maintenance practices will lead to a healthy aquatic environment and thriving fish, providing years of joy for the hobby.
Spending 30 minutes every other week seems reasonable compared to the time and money spent trying to solve a problem, which might have been prevented in the first place.
The biggest factor for maintenance is tank stability.
As long as everything is running properly and your fish are healthy, there is no need for any major changes, even if the pH or hardness seems to be slightly out of range.
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New Tank Syndrome
One should think, starting out with a new hobby is like learning by trial and error, or better, learning by doing. Unfortunately a certain amount of knowledge is required to start the hobby of fish keeping. The understanding of what is going on inside the tank, as you can't see, feel or smell pH, hardness, ammonia and such.
Pouring in one load of chemicals after the other and trusting this will solve problems overnight, will only end with the lasting memory of stores selling expensive products that do not work.
New Tank Syndrome, as the phrase implies, is related to a newly set-up aquarium. This may be the main obstacle the new hobbyist has to face.
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