Having a fish tank is a delightful experience, it helps you relieve stress and set your mind on other things, specially for small children who sometimes can stay for hours just staring at your fishes.
When you first buy a fish tank you should always put it on top of some Styrofoam to help it from cracking and once you have decided the place you are going to put it you have to follow these steps to fill your fish tank.

• The first thing you got to do is put the stones on the bottom; make sure you have a thick layer of stones and/or sand.
• Arrange all you fish tank decoration and supplies such as filters, water pumps and cascades before you put the water in. (make sure everything is unplugged, some of those accessories have to be submerged in water before you turn them on)
• Put the water in your fish tank, if you are using water straight from the faucet make sure that you poor it gently and use some anti-chlorine product (it may vary the amount of drops you have to put, depending on the brand)
• Once you’ve filled your fish tank let it rest for at least three days, with all your equipment working. If you do this it will give your fish tank time to cycle, and remove all the chlorine.
• After these 3 days of rest you can put your fish in your tank without worries, just take the plastic bag in which they came and let them float on the surface of your fish tank for at least 10 minutes, then gently open the bag and poor some water of your fish tank inside the bag, let the bag rest for another 5 minutes.
• Take out your fish from the without mixing the water from the bag and your fish tank together (make sure that when you take out your fish you do it gently so that you don’t hurt them, you can use a fish net or you hand depending on the size, type of fish and of course your ability to catch them).

If you follow these simple steps it will avoid the loss of your adorable underwater pets and you will definitely enjoy looking at your brand new fish tank.

Good Luck!!!

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