In The Age Before The Jewel Rekord 800
I am no slip of a kid any longer and I can look back to the days before the Juwel Rekord 800 when I set up my very own exotic fish tank. I would have been on my hols and discovered the world of exotic fish first hand and being a loud young thing thought I'll master keeping those small beauties myself. Therefore credit card in hand I set off for my closest exotic fish shop (it was all pink and purple outside and somewhere close to the Elephant and Castle if I recollect right).
When I had more boxes and bags and bits and bobs than I knew what to do with and when I set the tank up everything looked great on the inside of the tank. All the pumps, heaters, filters, day lights, night lights were great but not designed to work together and it looked a mess.
The important thing I had forgotten was that once set up my new tank would be an extra piece of furniture in my home and the Heath Robinson look was truly out of whack in my 1980’s style bachelor pad. What I needed was a combined system like the Jewel Rekord 800 aquarium. This little baby is a real gift as it contains everything you are likely to need to start but the biggest thing is that all of your bits and bobs, your wires, your filters and pumps are all integrated into the tank. Deftly hidden so you can not see them, meaning you only ever have to have a look at your fish and not the mechanics.
Setting up a tank of this sort (it is 110 litres and 80 x 30 x 45cm) is no small achievement. It's not just plug it in, shove in 1 or 2 fish and away you go. Water needs to mature so that chemicals in our tap water (chlorine really) do not harm your fish and the pumps and filters that keep that process moving along are also integrated in this system, hidden well out of sight.
These days many aquarium enthusiasts are drawn towards the even more impressive arena of the sea fish and there is a requirement for even more apparatus to observe and maintain water quality. Protein skimmers are required to stop build ups of toxins in the water and this implies, potentially another device to debris things up unless you select the Pret a Porter equivalent of the aquarium world.
My story doesn't end there either. After several months of setting up my tank and steadily introducing new stock and after losing some to the unavoidable contagions I ultimately ended up with my dream tank. An absolutely stocked world of light colour movement and activity, talk of proud Pas! A tiny shoal of busy Guppies, three or 4 imperious Angel Fish and a single brilliantly coloured Siamese Fighting Fish, all living happily. Happily that was, till an errant dinner party guest (it was actually the Eighties blokes) kicked the heater wire by mistake which meant no heat and dead fish inside.
If you purchase pet foods online then you may also find The Juwel Rekord 600 aquarium in our shop, which is a solid aquarium that’s great for noobs and also more experienced fish keepers.
