Tropical fish tanks are often found in commercial office buildings, hotels, restaurants, or even hospitals. Freshwater Tropical fish tanks provide numerous amazing benefits to many people and require very little to maintain one in your own home. Let's explore the Amazing benefits of Fish-keeping hobby.
Amazing benefits of Fish-keeping
Pet aquarium fish have many benefits for owners who enjoy fish keeping. Not only can fish aquariums decorate the house, aquarium fish can also help prevent risks to certain diseases and calm several disorders. There's no telling what your fish may have in store for you. Just find out what wonders are these pets able to do?
Mental Tierdness
Set up your fish aquarium next to your bed and fill it up with aquarium fish. Before you go to bed to sleep, gaze at your fish for a few minutes. This will help ease your mind of any worries you might have, in turn helping you sleep. When you wake up each morning, start up your day by gazing at your aquarium fish as they swim lazily through the water. You'll find that your mood brightens considerably and you'll be less inclined to miss work.
Food Wastage
If you have trouble eating or have picky children, set up a fish aquarium in the same room as your dining room. Fish have been proven to help people keep their attention on their food and, as a result, leave less food on their plates. Many restaurants keep fish aquariums now because of this shocking fact.
Stress Buster
When you get sick, gaze at your fish aquarium for 30 minutes. Not only will the fish relax your mind, but they help reduce stress and will make you more able to fight off that cold or disease. Hospitals especially like to keep fish aquariums because of how aquarium fish improve their patients.
Blood Pressure
If you have high blood pressure, watch your pet fish for at least 15 minutes each day. Aquarium fish have been proven to actually lower blood pressure. Research has proven that watching a fish tank for 10 to 15 minutes everyday can be very beneficial, by lowering blood pressure substantially, reducing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children, as well as stress from work and everyday life.
Relationship
Is your romantic relationship failing? Buy a fish tank for the room you share with your spouse. Because aquarium fish ease stress, the fish tank will help your relationship be less prone to arguments. Therefore, your relationship with your spouse will actually improve. This can also work with family relationships.
Knowledge of Underwater life
Keeping the fishes at home provides the opportunities to watch the fishes up close and personal. One can study the unique behaviors of the fishes in the tank, which cannot possibly do even at the reservoir or the pond.
Sense of Creativity
Keeping fish also provide another avenue to develop creative talent - aqua landscaping. You will have to mimic suitable biotop for your fish, from where they actualy came. For this your brain starts showing the creativity. It improves the thinking of your brain.
Eye Vision
Eye specialists (opticians) are of the opinion that watching fish is very good for the eyes. It can relax your tiered eyes and improve your eye vision to some extent.
Alzheimer Disease
Studies have shown that persons who have Alzheimer’s experience a variety of health benefits from watching an aquarium. Alzheimer patients ate more, and required fewer supplements after an aquarium was placed in the dining room. They also exhibited less physically aggressive behaviors. Purdue University in Indiana conducted studies on the effect of watching aquariums in elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer’s. They found that the more patients watched aquariums, the more alert and calmer they were. The study also found that aggression levels experienced by Alzheimer’s patients decreased and that their appetite increased by almost 20%. This led to improvements in their quality of life, when compared to the control group who did not watch aquariums fish.
Feel Good Hormone
Watching fish is thought to stimulate serotonin neurotransmitters in the brain leading to increasing production of endorphins. Endorphins are our body’s natural ‘feel good’ hormones and produce a feeling of happiness. These hormones also reduce anxiety, having a calming effect on the body and a range of other health benefits such as lowering blood pressure, and reducing hyperactivity in children.
Crying babies
It has even been found that sitting babies and young children in front of the tank is a great way to calm them and stop them from crying!
Relaxing the Mind
Watching the fish swimming gracefully in the tank with their bright colors can indeed put one into deep relaxation and even into a state of trance.
Education for children
Most of the children are fascinated by fishes when they see the fish for the first time, usually in the form of a trip to the local fish shop or fish farm. Keeping fish at home can teach the children a few good things such as:
· They will learn about the habitats of the fish and other aquatic life.
· They learn how to care for the small aquatic animals and plants.
· When they start keeping fish, they will be instilled a sense of responsibility towards another living creature.
· They learn and understand the basic of water treatment and how to maintain suitable water quality for the fish to live and even to stimulate breeding. This knowledge will serve then well in future when they study science and chemistry in school.
· They can witness the life cycle of fish species, which will enable them to appreciate biology.
· Most importantly, they will derive great pleasure from watching the fishes display varieties of personalities. Through observing the intricate features and behavior of fishes, the children will improve their observation skills.
· The care of fish is a great learning experience for young children. When the child is able to take good care of the fish, they will usually be able to witness successful fish breeding. This will boost their confidence in the hobby as well as their ability.
Create Energy Flow at Home
By use the overhead filters for the few bigger tanks in the living room. The water flows down from the filter box through the pipe, creating a soothing water-trickling sound in the living room. As the water flow hit the water surface, strings of water bubbles are created. These bubbles synchronize perfectly with the sound of water flow, like having a piece of relaxing instrumental music playing continuously. Visually, it creates a sense of energy flowing ceaselessly at various corner of the living room where the fish tanks are located. From the metaphysical or the Feng Sui point, it creates an energy field operating non-stop at home.
Nature's Beauty
Home aquariums offer pure beauty in the form of a miniature nature scene enclosed in a glass box. While many people tend to collect works of art to hang on the wall, fish hobbyist prefer to set up aquariums in their home to admire the beauty of tropical fish swimming about 24 hours/7 days a week. The huge selection of beautifully colored aquarium fish gives you almost endless options to satisfy your taste. As far as home decorating, a tropical fish tank set up in your home will draw attention and add beauty to any room. There are endless options available for hobbyist to choose from in tank, stand, and canopy options. Choices vary on individual taste so we will cover this topic in greater detail soon. By
selecting the proper fish and decorations for your aquarium, you can customize the beauty of your fish tank however you may desire.
Relaxation
Aquariums offer you an endless source of relaxation. Restaurants, Dr.'s offices, hospitals, commercial buildings, and hotels are just a few that typically house a tropical fish tank in their lobby. This is because watching fish swim around in the aquarium relaxes you. The peaceful movements with their fins and tail move them effortlessly through the water. When people are relaxed, they tend not to complain for that 1-hour wait in the Dr.'s office waiting room. There is nothing like coming home from a stressful day at work and just watching the fish swim about in the tank. Also, if you enjoy hearing running water, home aquariums can provide you with the soothing sound of running water as the water returns into the tank from the filter. (Note: if you do not like this sound, it's ok one can fix that too)
Reduced Stress
Did you know that tropical fish tanks have been known to reduce stress, tension, and anxiety? It is true. Again we go back to the relaxation benefit. When humans are relaxed, our stress levels drop. Sit in front of an aquarium on a regular basis and see if your stress level does not decrease.
Keep A "Wet Pet"
Many people are not allowed to have a "traditional" pet like dog, cat in their house or apartment. Either due to allergies or landlord agreements, people are restricted from having pets in the house or apartments. Even with the pet restrictions, many people are allowed to have a pet fish. Freshwater tropical fish will allow for you to have a family pet to admire and care for if that is what you desire. Freshwater tropical fish allow you to have a pet even if you do not have to the time to care for a dog or a cat. The overall upkeep of tropical fish is significantly low compared to other furry pets. You do not have to pay boarding fees every time you take a weekend trip or vacation. Just simply feed the fish, do your regular maintenance, and everything should be fine until you get back.
Conclusion
Keeping an fish aquarium is not just a hobby. It has many amazing benefits. One who owns these beautiful creatures in their home aquaria are the luckiest one in this world, as they experienced lot of things which others don't who don't have an aquarium in their home. So, If you are still thinking to start this hobby just experience the mesmerizing underwater world at your home.
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