I’ve been looking for sites on the Internet that would gather freshwater aquarium hobbyists together and also give advice to beginners. This hobby is so changing that you just can’t do it by only reading a book (but it of course helps a lot). Just as I have been writing about on this blog, there are many people giving different kinds of advice and in the end it all depends on your tank and what you have in it. So it is good to have someone to ask or share and exchange your own thoughts to others.
So today I today joined the Aquarium Advice community at http://www.aquariumadvice.com. I been a member for only a few hours, but already my initial post got many replies from people who really seem to understand this and know what they are saying. It feels nice to have a place to ask questions from and also share good moments. Already from this first day in the community I have to say that I changed again my opinion about water change frequency. It really makes sense to change the water quite often since in the nature the water is flowing and changing naturally, while in an aquarium it’s you who have to do the changes – so why not change it as it would in the nature. It really seems there is no harm in changing the water too often (that is, if you are not doing it daily – that would cause unnecessary stress to the fish :)) if you are careful with vacuuming the gravel too intensively. So I will probably follow the following pattern in water changes from now on: change 10-20% of the water weekly with light gravel vacuuming and once a month 30-40% water change with intense gravel vacuuming.
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