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An aquarium (plural: aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aquatic reptiles, such as turtles, and aquatic plants. The term aquarium, coined by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, combines the Latin root aqua, meaning 'water', with the suffix -arium, meaning 'a place for relating to'.The aquarium principle was fully developed in 1850 by the chemist Robert Warington, who explained that plants added to water in a container would give off enough oxygen to support animals, so long as the numbers of animals did not grow too large. The aquarium craze was launched in early Victorian England by Gosse, who created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea in 1854. Small aquariums are kept in the home by hobbyists. There are large public aquariums in many cities. Public aquariums keep fish and other aquatic animals in large tanks. A large aquarium may have otters, turtles, dolphins, sharks, and whales. Most aquarium tanks also have plants.An aquarist owns fish or maintains an aquarium, typically constructed of glass or high-strength acrylic. Cuboid aquaria are also known as fish tanks or simply tanks, while bowl-shaped aquaria are also known as fish bowls. Size can range from a small glass bowl, a few liters in volume, to immense public aquaria of thousands of liters. Specialized equipment maintains appropriate water quality and other characteristics suitable for the aquarium's residents.
I made a DIY light fixture by putting some cut-to-size LED strips in an aluminum housing connecting them to a Mean Well DC power supply with a 3-prong plug. It's supposed to hang over a planted aquarium.
My problem is that I feel a tingling sensation when I touch the housing. My understanding...
Hi, I’m currently in the midst of setting up my fish room and I want to be able to meter how much electricity this room is using, the power supply is running from my house out to a shed that has a RCD box and then from that point to my other shed with yet another RCD box.
My question was if I...
Hi all,
I'm not an electrician so would appreciate some help from all the people with the knowledge please.
I'm making a power supply to operate several pumps for and aquarium off one plug
I'm going to use a MW HLG-320H-24B PSU To power 5 pumps all pumps are 24V and are maximum 52W
I wanted...
Hi everyone,
Very new here, but could do with some advice. I am in the process of designing/building a LED aquarium light using 3W power LEDs.
I am using 6 cool White and 6 royal blue LEDs and running them from a 12 volt driver in a set of parallel series strings, as in the following...
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Hello people. This is second time my water pump fails. I bought it with aquarium half year ago. I tried hitting it like i did first time which made it function, but this time it did not help. However! It works but does ot function. I hear working sound, feel vibration but it does not pull water...
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