Storytellers

Are you being told some stories? The aquarium keeping industry is spreading many stories: algae eaters, liquid CO2, filter bacteria in the bottle, without speaking about hydrogen peroxide… Such tips can at best reduce some symptoms but will never treat the causes of bad plant growth and algae development.

Because of such stories, new aquarists soon find themselves spending much more money that they can earn. Even the famous light break in the middle of the day is a relic from the past and will not help you further.

The brothers Grimm could definitely get jealous at the fairy tales in the aquarium keeping industry: the discus in 82 Fahrenheit warm water, or the filter material that has to be replaced or fertilized substrate. Such tales as the fertilized substrate are the reason why many aquarists give up the aquarium keeping hobby and buy themselves a dog instead. In less than 6 months, the fertilized substrate begins to rot.

How much filter material, liquid CO2, UV lamps does an aquarist have to buy, only to notice that it serves only the aquarium keeping industry and neither the fishes nor the aquarist? External filters with a bypass switch that enables to postpone the cleaning of the filter are especially funny. Most aquarists believe that a brown, muddy filter is a run in filter. Such bypass switches will at most support laziness and algae growth.

The newest trends in the aquarium fairy tales land is the word “digital”. Digital comes from digitus, the Latin word for finger. With this so-called digital equipment, you can become a real cellphone expert but this has nothing to do with a real aquarist with a well-run aquarium.

You can get advice from Soizic SOS Aquarium to get an aquarium that is, without cellphone and new technologies, automatically maintained by the nature. Indeed, in the field of aquarium keeping, digital does mean “Keep your fingers away!”