I have learned a lot from our aquarium project! I would say that I've never even knew how hard it was to keep a fish maintained and totally underestimated how much it takes to keep the ecosystem of your tank under control. 1.) You have to do ammonia, nitrate, dissolved oxygen, pH, and Alkalinity tests to make sure the environment is stable enough for your fish to survive in. 2.) I learned that tap water can kill your fish and that you must use declorinator and bacteria when adding fish or your fish could die! (don't get those two mixed around though, that could be bad!:P)
3.) Fish must have oxygen. I had no idea that we needed a bubbler to keep our fish alive but now I do. 4.) Different fish do not get along with each other whereas I thought every fish would be fine and playful. (one of our fish lost an eye in the beginning because others didn't like him- even though those we picked were supposed to "get along"). 5.) Different fish act differently and like other places of the tank and tend to stay or swim in that area.
I would change this project for next year by letting everyone know that a filter can be bad for small fish. We put a filter in our tank and it killed two of our fish because it was too strong and sucked them up:( I would also change how we learned how to take care of them after we got them. Going into it we were really confused on what to do at first and what it took to help them survive haha. The guys at pets mart said only certain fish could live at certain temperatures and some fish had to be in groups and most fish you added wouldn't survive if you added more than five fish or such. We went to pet co first and didn't learn this until later. In our group we had three people and that was difficult because some people wanted different fish, but some fish needed to stay with a certain group. Overall though it was pretty fun! It was also very sad though! I did not want to lose so many fishies:(
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