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To a few people who really live for their aquarium hobby, they don't really need it to give them anything dramatic or entertaining. They're happy just pottering about with all the everyday things they can do. For the rest of us though, running and maintaining an aquarium can get a bit old after a while. Well, if that’s how it feels, it's usually because we haven’t learned how to set up an aquarium to be exciting. The aquarium hobbyist’s market is flooded with all kinds of cute and fun little props and other things to use. All you need to do is to think differently.

Now before you allow yourself to get carried away with all kinds of ideas for how to set up an aquarium to be crazy fun, you have to understand that you can't just throw anything in there that looks colorful and cute. You see, fish are very small creatures. And that tank of yours is pretty small, too.

Just imagine what it would be like if someone shut you up in a 10 foot room with no windows or anything and just kept you there forever. Imagine next what it would be like if they put in your room, something that smelled awful – a large cheap plastic doll for instance. Pretty soon you, the cheap plastic would stink your room up. You might even get a headache from all the fumes.

Betta fish tend to be among the most beautiful fish in any aquarium. Everyone does know that Betta fish are the easiest to care for of all fish. What's less well known though is that they're very easy if you're interested in breeding them, too. If this is your first time breeding fish, you should try breeding Betta fish first. It'll be good for your morale.

As easy and as rewarding as such a venture might be, there still are a few things you need to keep in mind.

The first problem is actually not a real problem. It's just that breeding Betta fish is so easy that it's likely that pretty soon, you'll have hundreds of little Betta fish crowding your tank. The fish evolved to breed in a large water body with lots of space to spread out – not in a five-gallon tank. What do you do if your aquarium isn't the size of a football field? You'll have to be prepared to throw them away.

Betta fish are famously low maintenance. But still, when you keep a creature in artificial surroundings, there always are a few things to take care of. Neglect to take care of these things, and you'll quickly find that your fish can go belly up. But it's a very simple really to learn how to take care of a Betta fish. Read on.

The water in the tank is the oxygen the fish breathe. They can no more survive on stale water than you can survive on stale air. And so, you need to replace old water in their tank at least twice a week. You'll find that at the pet store, they tell you that Betta fish are so undemanding that they can live in a glass of water and they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. You need to be able to separate fact from fiction to be able to learn how to take care of a Betta fish.

You need a tank that holds at least 3 gallons of water for these fish. And it's always one fish to a tank. If you get a 5 gallon tank, you have to change the water once a week.

Cleaning a tank occupied by Betta fish is the same as cleaning a tank with any fish. You don't have to change more than half of water at a given time. And try to stir the bottom up as much is possible as you clear the water out. You want to be able to get as much of the dirt that’s settled down. Make sure that you never change more than half the water in a tank at a time.

To be sure, keeping an aquarium would be a much more popular thing for people to do if it weren't for one thing – an aquarium has to be cleaned. Well, did you ever think that you could just hire a few extra hands to clean your tank for you? Oh right! you're thinking – as if you didn't have enough stupid things to spend money on already, now you have to hire people? No, you're not going to hire people – you can hire a few extra mouths to help you. They call them bottom feeder fish.

You've probably only ever heard of the term “bottom feeder” as an insult. Perhaps you never stopped to think what it actually meant – because it sounded pretty nasty. Well, if you look at it that way, what bottom feeder fish do certainly is a bit nasty. But why should you care – they save you all the labor by doing it.

Algae eating snails and bottom feeder fish – these are what you want to get for your tank. You just buy some and let them loose in your tank, and you have a cleaning brigade on the job 24x7, cleaning every piece of dirt there is as it comes.

If you never owned an aquarium before, buying a 20 gallon fish tank would be a great place to start. As an aquarium size to start on, it's neither too large for to maintain nor too small that you should have trouble really enjoying how beautiful an aquarium can be.

About the most important thing you need to get a handle on when you own a fish tank (a 20 gallon fish tank or any other) is this: water quality management is vital. No matter how much you invest in the fish or the landscaping, it'll all come to naught if you aren't on top of the water quality.

There are many species of fish do not only care their children but also eat them, this is common in some breeds guppies. So many breeders found many spawning fish but no fish is growing.

Under the guidance of some fish specialist, breeding guppies needs to note: the early stages after birth, the parents are very easy to attack baby fish. Therefore, in the aquarium, there should be a designated safe point place such as grid, nylon nets, net charge, fine, small mesh. This nets help the fish pass through; stop to keep the parents at the lake remaining, completely separate from the fish. Mesh is fixed to timber frame, timber frame design width (width) of each aquarium.