Choosing Your First Aquarium: Why Bigger Is Easier
If I could change one thing about how fish shops sell to beginners, it would be the little “starter kits”. The 20 litre cube with a light in the lid, the plastic bowl with a goldfish sticker on the box. They look manageable, they fit on a desk, and they are the single biggest reason new keepers give up in the first three months. I run a room full of tanks now, from 30 litre shell dweller boxes up to a proper community tank, and I will tell you plainly: the small ones are the hard ones. If you are buying your first aquarium, buy bigger than you think you want. Somewhere between 60 and 100 litres is the sweet spot, and here is why. ...