The Wall Mounted Aquarium - All The Benefits Without Taking Up All The Space

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ned_D'Agostino]Ned D'Agostino
When I first saw the term "wall mounted aquarium" I thought it was possibly a mistake - didn't they mean "built into the wall aquarium"? After all, the weight of those things is ridiculous. One gallon of water weighs 10lbs and then you have all the added weight of the glass and rocks.
I like aquariums, but until now only those belonging to other people. My husband had three when I met him, all located in the wrong places so that they would go green very quickly. I hated all the pumps buzzing away and the dead fish that would somehow get out while I wasn't looking. It seems that a wall mounted aquarium might be a much better idea than those old-fashioned ones.
It's lovely and relaxing to look at a bunch of beautiful tropical fish, but the maintenance and research involved just turned me off. But the new designs of wall aquaria are tempting, and it would beat watching most of the TV programs that are on these days!
No longer just a fish tank, a wall mounted aquarium saves a lot of room and certainly looks more attractive than that big old green glass tank on a cast iron base, with tubes and wires coming from it. The designs of these aquaria are awesome and are bound to tempt a few newcomers to try the hobby.
They are so low maintenance that they are ideal for dentist and doctors offices - very calming while you are waiting to undergo torture, or for waiting rooms and lobbies as a point of interest for people to look at while they wait for an appointment.
A wall-mounted aquarium is hung like a picture or big screen TV - in fact it looks so surrealistic that people may not realize it really does contain live fish and real water!
They are very sophisticated too and made from shatterproof polycarbonate so they are pretty darned safe. Keeping the water at the correct temperature is no longer a hit or miss affair either, there is a state of the art control interface so you can monitor all the aquarium's systems, including temp, filtration and oxygen. The polycarbonate screen provides excellent viewing too; it looks like glass so there is no weird distortion when you look inside the aquarium. In fact just about everything is done for you, and if anything does need doing the control panel will tell you so, the epitome of low maintenance - I wish mine had been!
Not only do wall mounted aquariums look awesome in the daytime, at night they look even better, you can actually sit down and enjoy them and not worry about dead fish and algae.
Are they expensive? Well if you are a failed fish-keeper like me they are probably not, we ended up throwing away all our tanks, pumps and stands after months of miserable failure - not to mention the money we spent on doomed fish!
They start at around $300 and there is even a choice of different colored surrounds to match your d�cor - and not green slime color. You can sit back, relax and just add water - and a few happy fish of course.
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