Post by pezerologo on May 20, 2015 13:11:00 GMT
Hi everyone !!
It is not a fad, it's a necessity.
Sustainability that lately seems to be in all marketing agendas of multinationals have taken advantage of an evil that they have created.
Anyway we can not always hechar blame others, and in almost 30 years that I passionately living with fish at home, I've gained some knowledge in different fields of the aquarium.
One is what is now called Low Cost, once before the appearance of Takashi Amano and Nature Aquariums, was called Natural Aquarium.
This was because the owner of one of these tanks brains on the correct pH, or the most modern equipment is not debanaba, either in the indiscriminate use of chemicals in the aquarium. It was what I liked to call a wild aquarium.
Later with the advent of the Internet was possible for ideas, inventions, and other bricolajes (now called DIY), these tanks were shared and increasingly they received new tinkering for convenient maintenance, with less intervention, etc.
After a trip to Cuba and meet several aquarists there as well as its facilities, learned many tricks and other simply recovers practices were previously performed and that with time you are leaving to do.
Sometimes we are not aware that in the society we live in today where everything goes so fast, where everything becomes obsolete so quickly, in the way we allow ourselves to be customs not outdated longer efficient.
And come the word efficient invariably leads at first sustainability.
We must be aware that nature is not infinite and that many of the species that we maintain in our aquariums are very close to extinction in many parts of the world. Likewise fossil fuels are not unlimited and should pay more attention to what we spend, and also get used to eating less and less each time until a reasonable figure to 7,000 million people we are now.
It is better that we leave ourselves that limiting consumption before or obligation on limitation of energy in each house or the high price achieved, we meet with the water pun neck.
This does not mean we can not enjoy our hobby but we should make it more sustainable.
And not only in terms of consumption, the annual number of fish caught in their habitat is very high, reaching tens of millions. Also breeding farms ornamental species used too often an internship, we can not call sustainable or respectful of the fish. And the quality of these fish ever is lower.
Formerly when in specialized shops were not many species, there was a great exchange of fish among amateurs. It was also very common to have an aquarium who reproduce some kind. This was also becoming a lost and although over the Internet you can find almost everything, we must go for the local.
After this introduction we will see different aspects or practices, in addition to saving money, they will make you rethink how we do things and how easy it is to focus them toward something more "sustainable"
In temperate climates where cold winters suffer heat loss is one of the things we can tackle easily. Thus you will save work to the heater, the temperature will remain more stable and start to save our first coins into electricity, they will not be many, but start somewhere.
Polystyrene plates get a thickness of from 2 cm. With them we cover the aquarium floor, side and rear. We can paint the color you prefer and also cover it with some plywood, vinyl, etc. The limit is the imagination.
This was something that was widely used a few decades ago when the heaters were exclusive, expensive and dangerous.
Do not forget that this is a similar technique performed insulation in buildings and homes.
If we keep plants in our aquarium, we know the importance of providing vital nutrients for growth. Today we have many products of all brands that perform that work.
If we are of those who believe that no concoction that can overcome nature, again recovered a trick of the old school to feed our plants.
Clay, if the clay used since time immemorial by ancient civilizations. Are we going to allow chemicals manufactured in pollution and a high water consumption levels, supplant this natural fertilizer?
No matter the country you live, not many kilometers from your home no clay. It's as simple as pick as liquid clay and mold something as small marbles to bake later.
Buried at the bottom, near the plants but should not come into direct contact, these balls will go releasing essential plant nutrients and we will see with its splendid growth. With this new trick we managed to save a few coins more because if we use this system throughout the year we will have saved several boats of unnatural fertilizers. There are many currencies but connected to the previous because we fill the piggy bank.
Since we are talking about plants we go with another fundamental aspect to them, in this before there was much choice and be efficient was to use the ambient light and artificial lights turn on only half a day.
Currently systems with diode or LED lighting, other lighting will be a waste of watts. Thanks to the people who are skilled in the field and share their knowledge through tutorials, both written and video, should not cost us illuminate our aquarium in this way. If instead you want to buy a new light, in specialized stores have many variants, the price may seem high at first but eventually it habras amortized.
Another aspect in a small or medium investment will end up saving some money to introduce into our bank.
Feeding our fish is also something where we have come to get everything we did. Not many years ago I had to bathe oatmeal with vitamins to avoid rickets and had suffered many species that directly not accept this. Frozen did not exist or at least it was not uncommon here at least until age 90. That is why it was frequent departures to catch live food or sharing with other fans through leaves normally handwritten, advising you on culturing these tiny invertebrates. They were usually adult brine shrimp or daphnia, earthworms and also tubifex.
Today this list is much more extensive and we can add the vinegar worms, Grindall, rotifers and paramecium, fruit flies and other that will ensure a varied and high quality nutritious diet.
Normally these crops are very easy to maintain as well as cheap as they normally feed on products that are already in place.
Likewise if we got used to them Loricariids and vegetable intake in tablet, you can use slices of cucumber or zucchini devour at ease and gives them trace elements in fresh vegetables.
If we can observe several stable crops as food stopped using dried flakes or granules regularly throughout the year and will have ceased to buy several boats.
With this a new currencies to our bank, which even if they do not, and even begins.
Fresh water is an asset that we must learn to manage better. And it is more important in our case where it is indispensable to our hobby.
Too often we rely on devices such as osmotic exchangers for soft water to the aquarium. The number of waste water is high and may even be thrown down the drain up to 3 liters to get one.
This is unsustainable, but when there are other methods to get soft water.
In my view the most efficient as well as fully sustainable is to collect rain water, this water is usually soft and very suitable for many species.
It is well known among fans of killifish for example, those who collect this water for use in their tanks to stimulate spawning.
Although if we live in an industrial area or in a big city, we can only pick from a few hours that begins to rain.
Thus indirectly we avoid collecting heavy metals and other harmful compounds that surround us and of which we are often unaware.
If we live in rural areas or small towns this problem will be less and collect water of higher quality.
It is worth taking measurements of different parameters to determine the composition of this water.
Another option if you live in a mountainous area is to take water from a spring or source. In this case if you need to perform measurements of different parameters, since the composition of the soil from which flow, will confer a property or other.
It is worth remembering that these assets belong to everyone and we must make a consistent use with it. Debeemos collect only the water we need and never in industrial quantities, if this is not a rule but will be ethically acceptable.
If we can stop using the reverse osmosis unit, again thereby saving one coins throughout the year, plus avoid wasting water in many parts of the world it is a precious commodity.
If we are not overextending, nature can fill us with much of the decoration we use in an aquarium. It is important to note this because in principle nothing happens if we get a couple of rocks of a river one day, another couple from the beach, or near a quarry and a couple of your vacation spot. But too often the human is carried away by instinct and seems to want to take everything as his own.
This will not be our case we will no longer have to take rocks with shovels to a path in our garden or take sand from the beach or river to build a house.
You remember that we must avoid picking anything in fragile ecosystems or protected. It is also necessary to point out that if you go to pick up something in nature where you do abound and if you need stones and the stream that has been barely four .... not like the take because they are certainly indispensable for any animal. But if you go to a river or stream whose bed is composed of thousands of pebbles, will not cause any damage to the ecosystem if we get a few.
As the aquarium can be a fad, we can always return them where caught.
I started talking about rocks and there are many interesting types. Slate and granite are the most common but can find them in various shapes, sizes, colors and even inlaid with other materials. Strolling along the beach also find rocks of different sizes and backgrounds who may have interesting ways. The boulders of some rivers are very aesthetic and are very natural integrated into the aquarium.
We can find more information about the rocks more commonly used and see if we find all around us.
Use leaves in the aquarium is something that seems very modern, although formerly popular today cattapa Terminalia sheet was unknown, if we used Oak or Beech whose properties are known since ancient times.
Also you can use fruits such as those of maples, they immediately sink and in combination with leaves, stems or branches give a wild aspect to the aquarium.
And speaking of branches, with landscaping are currently for sale twigs with interesting ways. This is relatively new and previously had only three or four varieties of logs to choose from.
That is why to imitate a biotope with branches in an aquarium, used precisely why branches.
Preferably you have to take those which are already sunk and streams with clear water and not in standing water. Likewise we must make a hardness test on site and make sure that is not decaying branch somewhere. If we start rejecting this so that part or the whole branch depending on their condition.
Thus, we achieve twigs and trunks of small size, which usually are not for sale and we will open new fields in the decoration of the aquarium.
The trunk of Vine and Vine also been frequently used to aquarium has some work their preparation and fleet so we put a drag, but usually with a cost 0, are always a good option and certainly very aesthetic.
Arena can also catch certain amount in rivers or beaches in sea beaches, depending on the aquarium to go riding.
We wash well and even we can not keep out any unwanted guest to the aquarium as tiny eggs or larvae, seeds, etc.
As you have seen in a manner consistent again we can save some money that will go to our piggy bank and learn to look at nature differently, as a supplier, but also as something that we must protect.
I will be adding more information such as the use of renewable energy or the origin of our fish, I believe that there are now enough to have called attention and make you rethink some things.
Animate to answer what you think about this as well as any questions or suggestions you have.
Gr3tings !!!
It is not a fad, it's a necessity.
Sustainability that lately seems to be in all marketing agendas of multinationals have taken advantage of an evil that they have created.
Anyway we can not always hechar blame others, and in almost 30 years that I passionately living with fish at home, I've gained some knowledge in different fields of the aquarium.
One is what is now called Low Cost, once before the appearance of Takashi Amano and Nature Aquariums, was called Natural Aquarium.
This was because the owner of one of these tanks brains on the correct pH, or the most modern equipment is not debanaba, either in the indiscriminate use of chemicals in the aquarium. It was what I liked to call a wild aquarium.
Later with the advent of the Internet was possible for ideas, inventions, and other bricolajes (now called DIY), these tanks were shared and increasingly they received new tinkering for convenient maintenance, with less intervention, etc.
After a trip to Cuba and meet several aquarists there as well as its facilities, learned many tricks and other simply recovers practices were previously performed and that with time you are leaving to do.
Sometimes we are not aware that in the society we live in today where everything goes so fast, where everything becomes obsolete so quickly, in the way we allow ourselves to be customs not outdated longer efficient.
And come the word efficient invariably leads at first sustainability.
We must be aware that nature is not infinite and that many of the species that we maintain in our aquariums are very close to extinction in many parts of the world. Likewise fossil fuels are not unlimited and should pay more attention to what we spend, and also get used to eating less and less each time until a reasonable figure to 7,000 million people we are now.
It is better that we leave ourselves that limiting consumption before or obligation on limitation of energy in each house or the high price achieved, we meet with the water pun neck.
This does not mean we can not enjoy our hobby but we should make it more sustainable.
And not only in terms of consumption, the annual number of fish caught in their habitat is very high, reaching tens of millions. Also breeding farms ornamental species used too often an internship, we can not call sustainable or respectful of the fish. And the quality of these fish ever is lower.
Formerly when in specialized shops were not many species, there was a great exchange of fish among amateurs. It was also very common to have an aquarium who reproduce some kind. This was also becoming a lost and although over the Internet you can find almost everything, we must go for the local.
After this introduction we will see different aspects or practices, in addition to saving money, they will make you rethink how we do things and how easy it is to focus them toward something more "sustainable"
In temperate climates where cold winters suffer heat loss is one of the things we can tackle easily. Thus you will save work to the heater, the temperature will remain more stable and start to save our first coins into electricity, they will not be many, but start somewhere.
Polystyrene plates get a thickness of from 2 cm. With them we cover the aquarium floor, side and rear. We can paint the color you prefer and also cover it with some plywood, vinyl, etc. The limit is the imagination.
This was something that was widely used a few decades ago when the heaters were exclusive, expensive and dangerous.
Do not forget that this is a similar technique performed insulation in buildings and homes.
If we keep plants in our aquarium, we know the importance of providing vital nutrients for growth. Today we have many products of all brands that perform that work.
If we are of those who believe that no concoction that can overcome nature, again recovered a trick of the old school to feed our plants.
Clay, if the clay used since time immemorial by ancient civilizations. Are we going to allow chemicals manufactured in pollution and a high water consumption levels, supplant this natural fertilizer?
No matter the country you live, not many kilometers from your home no clay. It's as simple as pick as liquid clay and mold something as small marbles to bake later.
Buried at the bottom, near the plants but should not come into direct contact, these balls will go releasing essential plant nutrients and we will see with its splendid growth. With this new trick we managed to save a few coins more because if we use this system throughout the year we will have saved several boats of unnatural fertilizers. There are many currencies but connected to the previous because we fill the piggy bank.
Since we are talking about plants we go with another fundamental aspect to them, in this before there was much choice and be efficient was to use the ambient light and artificial lights turn on only half a day.
Currently systems with diode or LED lighting, other lighting will be a waste of watts. Thanks to the people who are skilled in the field and share their knowledge through tutorials, both written and video, should not cost us illuminate our aquarium in this way. If instead you want to buy a new light, in specialized stores have many variants, the price may seem high at first but eventually it habras amortized.
Another aspect in a small or medium investment will end up saving some money to introduce into our bank.
Feeding our fish is also something where we have come to get everything we did. Not many years ago I had to bathe oatmeal with vitamins to avoid rickets and had suffered many species that directly not accept this. Frozen did not exist or at least it was not uncommon here at least until age 90. That is why it was frequent departures to catch live food or sharing with other fans through leaves normally handwritten, advising you on culturing these tiny invertebrates. They were usually adult brine shrimp or daphnia, earthworms and also tubifex.
Today this list is much more extensive and we can add the vinegar worms, Grindall, rotifers and paramecium, fruit flies and other that will ensure a varied and high quality nutritious diet.
Normally these crops are very easy to maintain as well as cheap as they normally feed on products that are already in place.
Likewise if we got used to them Loricariids and vegetable intake in tablet, you can use slices of cucumber or zucchini devour at ease and gives them trace elements in fresh vegetables.
If we can observe several stable crops as food stopped using dried flakes or granules regularly throughout the year and will have ceased to buy several boats.
With this a new currencies to our bank, which even if they do not, and even begins.
Fresh water is an asset that we must learn to manage better. And it is more important in our case where it is indispensable to our hobby.
Too often we rely on devices such as osmotic exchangers for soft water to the aquarium. The number of waste water is high and may even be thrown down the drain up to 3 liters to get one.
This is unsustainable, but when there are other methods to get soft water.
In my view the most efficient as well as fully sustainable is to collect rain water, this water is usually soft and very suitable for many species.
It is well known among fans of killifish for example, those who collect this water for use in their tanks to stimulate spawning.
Although if we live in an industrial area or in a big city, we can only pick from a few hours that begins to rain.
Thus indirectly we avoid collecting heavy metals and other harmful compounds that surround us and of which we are often unaware.
If we live in rural areas or small towns this problem will be less and collect water of higher quality.
It is worth taking measurements of different parameters to determine the composition of this water.
Another option if you live in a mountainous area is to take water from a spring or source. In this case if you need to perform measurements of different parameters, since the composition of the soil from which flow, will confer a property or other.
It is worth remembering that these assets belong to everyone and we must make a consistent use with it. Debeemos collect only the water we need and never in industrial quantities, if this is not a rule but will be ethically acceptable.
If we can stop using the reverse osmosis unit, again thereby saving one coins throughout the year, plus avoid wasting water in many parts of the world it is a precious commodity.
If we are not overextending, nature can fill us with much of the decoration we use in an aquarium. It is important to note this because in principle nothing happens if we get a couple of rocks of a river one day, another couple from the beach, or near a quarry and a couple of your vacation spot. But too often the human is carried away by instinct and seems to want to take everything as his own.
This will not be our case we will no longer have to take rocks with shovels to a path in our garden or take sand from the beach or river to build a house.
You remember that we must avoid picking anything in fragile ecosystems or protected. It is also necessary to point out that if you go to pick up something in nature where you do abound and if you need stones and the stream that has been barely four .... not like the take because they are certainly indispensable for any animal. But if you go to a river or stream whose bed is composed of thousands of pebbles, will not cause any damage to the ecosystem if we get a few.
As the aquarium can be a fad, we can always return them where caught.
I started talking about rocks and there are many interesting types. Slate and granite are the most common but can find them in various shapes, sizes, colors and even inlaid with other materials. Strolling along the beach also find rocks of different sizes and backgrounds who may have interesting ways. The boulders of some rivers are very aesthetic and are very natural integrated into the aquarium.
We can find more information about the rocks more commonly used and see if we find all around us.
Use leaves in the aquarium is something that seems very modern, although formerly popular today cattapa Terminalia sheet was unknown, if we used Oak or Beech whose properties are known since ancient times.
Also you can use fruits such as those of maples, they immediately sink and in combination with leaves, stems or branches give a wild aspect to the aquarium.
And speaking of branches, with landscaping are currently for sale twigs with interesting ways. This is relatively new and previously had only three or four varieties of logs to choose from.
That is why to imitate a biotope with branches in an aquarium, used precisely why branches.
Preferably you have to take those which are already sunk and streams with clear water and not in standing water. Likewise we must make a hardness test on site and make sure that is not decaying branch somewhere. If we start rejecting this so that part or the whole branch depending on their condition.
Thus, we achieve twigs and trunks of small size, which usually are not for sale and we will open new fields in the decoration of the aquarium.
The trunk of Vine and Vine also been frequently used to aquarium has some work their preparation and fleet so we put a drag, but usually with a cost 0, are always a good option and certainly very aesthetic.
Arena can also catch certain amount in rivers or beaches in sea beaches, depending on the aquarium to go riding.
We wash well and even we can not keep out any unwanted guest to the aquarium as tiny eggs or larvae, seeds, etc.
As you have seen in a manner consistent again we can save some money that will go to our piggy bank and learn to look at nature differently, as a supplier, but also as something that we must protect.
I will be adding more information such as the use of renewable energy or the origin of our fish, I believe that there are now enough to have called attention and make you rethink some things.
Animate to answer what you think about this as well as any questions or suggestions you have.
Gr3tings !!!