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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Books Arrived

Posted on 4:52 PM by Unknown
Today, the two books I ordered came in. I called Drs. Foster Smith to check on the test kit and it has shipped and should be in tomorrow.



I started reading the Simple Guide to Freshwater Aquariums by David E. Boruchowitz, and have already found out that I messed up by getting a small tank. The analogy made in the book makes a lot of sense: if you have two cars out in the hot sun - a small sports car, and a large, twelve passenger van, and if they heat up to the same temperature, if you start both vehicles at the same time to cool them off, which one will reach a comfortable temperature first? Of course, the small sports car will. In the same sense, if you were to spill an equal amount of gasoline in each vehicle, which vehicle will the smell be stronger? Again, in the small sports car. In an aquarium, you want stable temperatures, and a larger aquarium resists temperature changes better! Also, in a larger aquarium, with a larger water volume, toxic waste is more diluted - so water quality is easier to maintain in a larger aquarium.



CRUD! I really did want to get that 29-gallon tank from Fish Tails in Rainbow City, and now it looks like I would have been better off getting it.
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