Setting up an aquarium isn't difficult, just about anyone can do it.
Buy a tank, fill it with water, add some fish and it's done.
Nothing to it really.
If you want to keep your fish for more than a couple of weeks then you probably need to adapt a slightly more scientific route than this.
Fish keeping is easy, but it isn't simple.
What I mean by that is that once you know your subject, the day to day fish keeping is easy.
Feeding them, watching them, do a spot of cleaning and an occasional water change, trim the plants if you've got any.
None of it is difficult or particularly time consuming.
So why do Eighty percent of people who start the hobby give up within a year? Because they didn't do their research.
Now the word research might put you off a bit.
It sounds really heavy, like what you would do before writing a thesis.
In actual fact, it is just reading.
That's all you have to do before you start this hobby.
Read up on it and make sure that you understand what it involves.
If you're serious about this it must be worth an evening or two to find out how to do it properly.
If you were taking up any hobby, it would probably involve some research, it's just that you don't think of it as research so it's easy to do.
There is loads of information on the internet, hobbyists, enthusiasts and suppliers are all posting huge amounts of information on the fish keeping hobby every day.
Just log on and fire up Google and away you go.
Ask around, do you have any friends who keep fish.
Most of them will be delighted to talk for hours on the subject.
Setting up an aquarium successfully is more about water keeping than fish keeping.
Yes you need to know about the fish but you need to know more about managing the water quality than anything else.
Did you get a goldfish as a kid? How long did it live? Goldfish can live fifteen to twenty years if looked after properly.
The record is forty three years.
The goldfish that we had as kids never stood a chance simply because there wasn't the information around then that there is today.
So before you start keeping fish do the research, sorry, reading and be a successful fish keeper.
Buy a tank, fill it with water, add some fish and it's done.
Nothing to it really.
If you want to keep your fish for more than a couple of weeks then you probably need to adapt a slightly more scientific route than this.
Fish keeping is easy, but it isn't simple.
What I mean by that is that once you know your subject, the day to day fish keeping is easy.
Feeding them, watching them, do a spot of cleaning and an occasional water change, trim the plants if you've got any.
None of it is difficult or particularly time consuming.
So why do Eighty percent of people who start the hobby give up within a year? Because they didn't do their research.
Now the word research might put you off a bit.
It sounds really heavy, like what you would do before writing a thesis.
In actual fact, it is just reading.
That's all you have to do before you start this hobby.
Read up on it and make sure that you understand what it involves.
If you're serious about this it must be worth an evening or two to find out how to do it properly.
If you were taking up any hobby, it would probably involve some research, it's just that you don't think of it as research so it's easy to do.
There is loads of information on the internet, hobbyists, enthusiasts and suppliers are all posting huge amounts of information on the fish keeping hobby every day.
Just log on and fire up Google and away you go.
Ask around, do you have any friends who keep fish.
Most of them will be delighted to talk for hours on the subject.
Setting up an aquarium successfully is more about water keeping than fish keeping.
Yes you need to know about the fish but you need to know more about managing the water quality than anything else.
Did you get a goldfish as a kid? How long did it live? Goldfish can live fifteen to twenty years if looked after properly.
The record is forty three years.
The goldfish that we had as kids never stood a chance simply because there wasn't the information around then that there is today.
So before you start keeping fish do the research, sorry, reading and be a successful fish keeper.