How To Generally Maintain A Healthy Aquarium

Generally, how do I maintain a healthy aquarium?

The maintenance of an aquarium, and the general raw health of an aquarium is achieved relatively simply, and it goes across the board whether it's salt water or fresh water, it doesn't really matter. Once you have an established aquarium, you're going to have to have a good test kit or a reliable fish store to bring your water to have them test it. And then based off your test parameters, it's going to dictate whether you need to do a partial water change or not. It is rarely, if ever, a good idea to change all the water in your tank, unless there is some kind of massive toxin problem, and it's an emergency and you have to do it. You're typically going to do 40 to 50 percent water change over four weeks. You can break that down into 10 to 12 to 15 percent every week, 25 percent every two weeks, or the whole 40 to 50 every four weeks. Depending on the type of tank you have, I would lean one way or the other. Typically I say with fresh water, you're going to perform maintenance on that every four weeks, salt water every two, and reef tank every one. Along with the water change, you're going to obviously de-chlorinate the new water going back in, and match the temperature of the old water, and then you're going to want to do some visual maintenance. You're going to want to scrub the algae off the glass, and if you have fake plants or any fake decorations that you can take out that are covered in algae, you can take them out and soak them in really hot water to get the algae off of them, and then redecorate your aquarium.