April 3rd-Aquarium Set Up

Because our aquarium already had fish and water in it, our set up process was slightly different than some of the others in the class. We began by using a siphon to clean the gravel already on the bottom of the tank, and get all of the fish waste out of the gravel. With that we siphoned out about half of the water in the tank. Then we used a sponge to clean the insides of the tank to get any unnecessary bacteria and dirt from the edges of the aquarium that could be harmful to the fish. Then we filled our bucket with water and added the dechlorinator and pondzyme so the water would be safe for the fish, before pouring that water into the aquarium. We had to repeat the process with the bucket about 3 times. Then we fed our fish and were done with our set up.