Hobbies For Stress Relief: Aquarium

For those who love fish

Research shows that having a pet at home reduces stress,increases life expectancy of patients having heart disease,cancer etc. Introducing pets for treatment is known as pet therapy.You can have any kind of pet a dog,cat,fish anything.I would like to discuss about maintaining an aquarium.

Research shows that watching fish swim in an aquarium reduce stress. Well, if you like fish don't waste time to own one. I advocate this hobby to reduce stress because fish is a pet which demands very less time for maintenance adds beauty to our interior coupled with stress relief .You can leave the fish at home when you are on a holiday, with less pain than that of leaving any other pet.

How to go about it?

• Locate a place in your house which has got less traffic at any given point of time. should be a place which is free of direct sunlight. I said direct sunlight. Light is needed so you should not keep it in a dark corner as well. Fix a fluorescent bulb for extra light,switch the light of at night.

• Go to any pet shop in your area and get a glass tank.

• Place the tank on a stand meant for supporting it.

• Place filter pads. Wash sand and put it in the bottom of the tank.

• Plant some aquatic plants in the sand. Some aquatic plants of Indian origin are ambulia,rottala indica,wisteria etc.

• Put some gravel in the bottom of the tank.

• Fill it with fresh water,slowly.

• Now time to buy some good ornamental fish. Gold fish,Gaurami,Angel fish etc are common ones.

Cleaning your aquarium

• Clean it once in two weeks.

• First you will want to pour most of your water into your holding fish tank or container.

• Now net your fish buddies out of the remaining water and move them over to the other fish tank.

• You can pour the remaining water out, and you are free to clean the inside of the tank, but do not use anything with harsh chemicals, a simple wipe down with a clean towel is good enough.

• Once your tank is clean, you can fill it back up with water about 2/3 the way

• Take a plastic bag,fill it up with your old water and put the fish in it. Leave this bag in the fish tank for some time. It will help the fish to get used to the water temperature.

• Once the water temperatures have had time to even out, you can free your fish from his bag prison, into his freshly cleaned home!