I remember sitting on my flourishing room floor three years ago. I was surrounded by buckets, a hose that wouldn't end leaking, and a definitely confused-looking Betta fish named Barnaby. I had just bought what the bin called a "20-gallon high" tank. I calculated my water conditioner dosage based on exactly 20 gallons. Within an hour, Barnaby was gasping. Why? Because that 20-gallon tank actually lonesome held very nearly 16.4 gallons of actual water in the same way as I supplementary the four inches of costly volcanic soil and those terrible pieces of driftwood. I had overdosed my tank because I didn't have a reliable water volume calculator fish tank method that accounted for the real world.

Most hobbyists think they know their tank size. They don't. The label upon the glass is a lieor at least, a categorically optimistic suggestion. If you desire to keep your fish enliven and your chemistry stable, you need to get the legal volume of your aquarium water volume calculator past you even think very nearly totaling a single drop of dechlorinator.

Lets be real for a second. We spend hundreds, sometimes thousands, on high-tech lights and CO2 regulators, but we guess the most basic metric: the volume. If your fish tank dimensions are off by just an inch, or if you forget to account for the glass thickness, your entire chemical story is shot.