{"id":512,"date":"2016-03-19T23:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harsmann.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:58:01","slug":"about-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/2016\/03\/about-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"About Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"

As written in ‘about me<\/a>‘ I like to care for my fish <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

After a few years of low activity (little children…) I expect to gear up now, and\u00a0expect there will be some stories worth sharing too. Therefore this introductory post, similar to my first about gardening<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My interest in aquariums goes back\u00a0more than 30 years. I am not sure how it started. Perhaps a visit to the (now closed) Fyn’s Akvarium, perhaps a visit to a pet store or maybe seeing an aquarium at a friends house. I can’t be sure, but I remember being very excited – reading every book in the library and making scale drawings of the fish I would one day keep. Then I got my first tank, \u00a0set it up and got it overstocked with predictably bad outcome. My first computer arriving didn’t help. After a few years I gave up.<\/p>\n

Still, the interest never vaned entirely, and in time realized how I\u00a0might avoid the pitfalls that stopped me the first time: A bigger bucket for water changes, being able to go to the pet store on my own, better finances (not that aquariums ever need to be a costly hobby)…<\/p>\n

Time passed, I kept thinking about it and in 2005 I finally\u00a0decided to do something about it. I had just finished some years of evening school and my wife was going to work abroad for a while. I started with an 85L tank (because that was the size of my first\u00a0tank, so I could reuse equipment), but soon I was hit by multiple tank syndrome<\/a> and I soon had six tanks in a one bedroom apartment, breeding several species.. When my wife returned home the the breeding tanks were emptied, and when we moved into our new house they were filled again.<\/p>\n

With a larger house there was both room for a larger main tank in the living room, as well as a proper fishroom for more experiments and more breeding. Since then the fishroom has been re-purposed for\u00a0baby stuff, so I am once more down to one single tank, a 530L tank housing a planted South American community.<\/p>\n

Volume:\u00a0530 liters (129 Gal)
\nLxHxW: 160x60x55 (63″x24″x22″)
\nWater:\u00a0PH= 8; hardness 22 dKH<\/p>\n

Stocking list (as of Mar 18, 2016):<\/p>\n