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Aquarium Maintenance Service, Aquarium Design and Installions, and Freshwater Aquarium Leasing

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Plano’s Aquarium Maintenance Company is Dallas Aquarium Experts

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Plano’s Aquarium Maintenance Company

Dallas Aquarium Experts is a full service custom aquarium design, installation and aquarium maintenance company. We provide custom aquarium installation along with expert aquarium maintenance professionals.

Dallas Aquarium Experts will work with our clients to design an aquarium maintenance service that fits the needs of your freshwater aquarium, reef tank, or saltwater fish only aquarium. You took time to create the beauty within your aquarium, and we take great pride in being the premier aquarium maintenance service provider in DFW. Our standards are set high above the rest, and we will ensure your investment in your aquarium and the beauty it holds is taken care of to the highest standard.
Our regularly scheduled aquarium maintenance service includes:

  • Perform a partial water changes using Reverse Osmosis water through hydro-vacuuming on freshwater systems. 
  • Test aquarium water parameters to ensure proper water chemistry
  • Algae cleaning from viewing sides of the aquarium
  • Complete health check of fish and invertebrates, free delivery of aquarium supplies, fish and corals.
  • Inspect the aquarium life support systems
  • Advise you as to the tank’s condition and any future potential problems

Here is a quick note about the most importance part of aquarium maintenance / fish tank cleaning.   All aquariums require a minimum 25% water change at least once a month, if you want the ultra clean pet store show tank look, than your going to need to do a 25% water change every week or two depending on how heavily stocked your aquarium is.
Dallas Aquarium Experts always uses a gravel cleaner when doing a water change on freshwater aquariums. This way all of the decomposing organic matter that has built up in the gravel is removed.
Almost all the possible problems that can occur with a tropical fish tank come down to one cause, decomposing organic matter in the aquarium. So obviously removing it will benefit the fish and improve the overall look of the tank. Cleaning your fish tank is very important. 

We determine the goal of the aquarium, while educating our clients, through extensive consultation. We match our passion for aquatic environments with sound knowledge in the ecosystems from which these animals come from. Our determination to utilize advances in lighting and filtration technology keeps us leading the way in the aquarium industry.

Discover the beauty of a premier aquarium with Dallas Aquarium Experts

Contact us today!

 (469) 450 3900

Aquarium Service in Plano – Dallas Aquarium Experts

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Aquarium Service in North Dallas and surrounding areas

Knowledgeable, Experienced, Aquarists Keep Your Aquarium Healthy and Thriving

Dallas Aquarium Experts offers you worry-free enjoyment with our professional aquarium maintenance services.

Your aquarium is like its own mini-ecosystem. When everything is in balance, all species in your tank thrive. But that balance can be hard to maintain, especially for complex ecosystems like saltwater and multi-species environments. The professionals at Dallas aquarium Experts keep your aquarium in natural harmony so that it remains healthy and thriving.

Dallas Aquarium Experts provides both freshwater and saltwater aquarium maintenance services for residential, and commercial.

With over 30 years of experience, our team of trained aquarists is among the most skilled and knowledgeable in the DFW area, further demonstrated by our 97% client satisfaction rate.

Why Do I Need Professional Aquarium Services?

Convenience – You don’t have to worry about cleaning the tank, ordering food and supplies, maintaining critical levels like salinity and PH, or other time consuming and sometimes complex procedures. Healthier Livestock – Fish, coral, and other species all then to do better when cared for by professional aquarists. Available Emergency Services – Professional aquarists tend to spot sick fish or poor living environments faster and immediately know what to do to prevent the spread of disease and improve tank conditions.

We also specialize in custom aquarium design and relocation of your aquarium and livestock during moves.

Dallas Aquarium Experts of DFW custom-designs packages based on your needs and budget. Please contact us for a free estimate on our aquarium maintenance services or for more information about our services.

Dallas Aquarium Experts

(469) 450 3900

Aquarium Leasing & Maintenance

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Benefits of Aquarium Leasing / Maintenance:

The calming and relaxing benefits that an aquarium brings to a home or workplace are well documented. Dallas Aquarium Experts aquarium lease service now offers you a hassle free way of keeping fish, meaning you can enjoy the pleasure and health benefits of keeping fish without the hassle of cleaning and maintenance.

Question – Do you find yourself, work colleagues or clients becoming stressed or in need of relaxation?

Answer – A Dallas Aquarium Experts aquarium might be just the thing for your home or business!

Why is this?

It has been proven that observing fish helps to lower stress levels, blood pressure and can aid relaxation, whilst improving productivity of staff. Various tests have been carried out since the late 1980s demonstrating that watching fish, even if on a television, can help to reduce stress.

In today’s hectic and fast-moving society, an aquarium can provide peace, serenity and relaxation. This is the reason why living aquariums can play an important role when placed in high-stress environments.

However, your personal environment does not have to be stressful in order to enjoy our systems. Our locations include private homes, hospitals, schools, hotels and businesses… the list is endless!

The Lease Aquarium

Our aquarium lease package consists of a tank, cabinet, equipment and livestock. Our cabinets are available in a range of standard sizes, and made-to-measure sizes and finishes. We will work closely with you to ensure that your aquarium complements its surrounding decor. The aquarium will be fully maintained on a monthly or weekly basis. All food and accessories are provided. This results in a complete aquatic service with minimum input on your behalf.

Aquarium Maintenance

Dallas Aquarium Experts aquarium maintenance service is the best currently available in Dallas. Our packages have been carefully designed to ensure all budgets and requirements are catered for.

At Dallas Aquarium Experts we consider every aquarium to be unique. We have the knowledge; skills and resources necessary to ensure any aquarium in DFW will not only be an asset to your home or business, it will not look better under the supervision of any other aquarium maintenance provider.

You may be a caring enthusiast who’s about to go on holiday or a CEO who just wants the best in hassle free aquarium installation. In any case we have a solution for you.

 

Always on time

Our team works to tight scheduled appointments. After an initial consultation and visit, you can expect the same team member to visit you on time at the agreed interval. We will never send a new face to your home or business without prior introduction.

 

We won’t get in the way

When contracting Dallas Aquarium Experts as your aquarium maintenance provider you can rest assured you will always receive the very best in aquarium maintenance available. Our team understands the demands of the busy home or work place and will make their visit as unobtrusive as possible. Not only will you get the best service available, your aquarium will not look better with any other aquarium maintenance provider.

 

What we do on a standard visit

To ensure that your system is always at its best and our service is consistent our aquarium maintenance staff always carries out the following tasks.

 Rake and siphon debris from gravel bed

 Change or rinse mechanical and chemical filtration media

 Check the inventory of food

 Check and test water quality and temperature

 Water change and top up

 Visual check of equipment, air and water flow

 Check fish for disease

 Clean exterior and interior aquarium surfaces

 

An aquarium is an ideal addition that will brighten up and bring a calming atmosphere to reception areas, work areas and waiting rooms with one of our aquariums your public access areas will become both interesting and relaxing.

 

 

Unsafe Decorations can cause BIG problems

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Stuff from your yard often contains all sorts of parasites and other nasty things that can cause disease in your tank and foul the water.  And it may not be safe to use non-aquarium rocks, wood, plastic sunflowers for standard aquarium use because many contain harmful dyes, and paints or fall apart once they sit in water. 

Your best bet for safe decorations is to purchase pieces from a reputable aquarium dealer.  I can’t emphasize this important point enough.  Unsafe decorations can kill fish, ruin your aquarium conditions, and cost you a lot of money and heartache.

Statuettes and toys that you find around the house may contain internal parts made of metal, which cause destruction in a tank.  Dyes and other surface materials can produce ill effects on fish and other species.

 

Whether your need is servicing an existing aquarium, or you are interested in a new aquarium setup, we will schedule a free consultation where an experienced professional will meet with you at your home or place of business.  We will assess your current situation and devise a plan that will help you move closer to the aquarium you have always wanted.

  

Call us at (469) 450-3900

Aquarium Maintenance – Dallas Aquarium Experts

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Aquarium Maintenance & Service, Aquarium Leasing Design & Installation, Aquarium Start Up (469) 450 3900  

 

 Dallas Aquarium Experts offer a variety of Aquarium Maintenance Services in Dallas to keep your fresh water aquarium, saltwater aquarium, or reef tank healthy, thriving, and looking its best. Our success with aquariums starts with decades of experience and knowledge in maintaining freshwater aquariums, saltwater aquariums, and reef tanks.

Aquarium Maintenance

 Our aquarium maintenance service is specific to each aquarium system, whether it be marine, reef or freshwater, each one is diverse in its own way. Although a few of the aquariums we maintain were not installed by Dallas aquarium Experts, we have very extensive knowledge in the multiple methods used by other companies. We feel very confident we can take over the maintenance of your aquarium without your animals suffering any stress. If we feel there should be upgrades or improvements to your system, we will inform you of our ideas.

Included in our maintenance services are a physical inspection of your equipment & animals, changing and/or cleaning of filter media, addition of additives and/or chemical filtration, cleaning of interior & exterior of aquarium, vacuum of substrate, water change, replacement or cleaning of decor and water chemistry test.

To make your life a little easier we will even provide your aquarium with an automatic feeder (topped off at each visit), we will deliver food, additives and even livestock (saving you time and gas). If all you want to do is look at and enjoy your aquarium, and that’s it, we can provide that service for you.

Good, consistent water quality is the single most important element of a healthy aquarium. To maintain water quality, a regular schedule of partial water changes is essential in most aquarium setups. The reasons why partial water changes are so important (as opposed to total “clean-ups”), involve the concepts of Basic Aquarium Water Parameters and The Nitrogen Cycle.

 

Our professional and dependable services can be custom tailored to fit your particular needs. Weekly visits make your aquarium a hands free experience, perfect for a waiting room or office-type setting. The weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly programs let you choose the amount of involvement you wish to have.

 

Visits Include

•Water Change (we always use Reverse Osmosis Deionized Water) 10-50% by gravel vacuum, depending on aquarium conditions

 

•Fish health assessment

 

•Full water quality testing

 

•Adjust pH up or down as required

 

•Vacuuming waste from the gravel or bottom of the aquarium

 

•Inspection and servicing of any external filters and parts including the protein skimmer, air stone, pre-filters, motors, pumps, impellers, etc

 

•Clean filters and replace filter media as needed

 

•Lighting and heating system inspection

 

•Cleaning the plants and decorations as required

 

•Redecoration of aquarium aquascaping

 

•Cleaning aquarium lids, tops and light fixtures

 

•Cleaning all glass surfaces inside and out

 

•Delivery of any livestock or dry goods ordered or purchased

 

Contact us today to schedule your free consultation

 

Whether your need is servicing an existing aquarium, or you are interested in a new aquarium setup, we will schedule a free consultation where an experienced professional will meet with you at your home or place of business. We will assess your current situation and divise a plan that will help you move closer to the aquarium you have always wanted.

 

 

 

Call us at (469) 450-3900

 

Email us at: sales@dallasaquariumexperts.com

 

 

Dallas Aquarium Experts – Plano Aquarium Service Company

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Aquarium Maintenance

 

Our clients appreciate the knowledge, keen eye for detail, and unbeatable response time to any aquarium job. Our success is due to highly qualified aquatic engineers, a high level of organization, and an incredible commitment to customer satisfaction. Clients never have to worry about going to a store to purchase supplies or livestock; we bring everything right to their door!

We specialize in the design, installation and maintenance of aquariums for homes and businesses in DFW. We are one of the only aquarium maintenance service companies in the area that has years of experience working with interior designers, architects and contractors to create successful custom aquariums every time.

We don’t try to be the cheapest! We strive to be the best! There are many different brands of aquariums and accessories available to use in your new aquarium system.

Some equipment and materials are of excellent quality and some are not. Dallas Aquarium Experts never compromises quality to meet or beat a competitor’s price. We use the finest products, state-of-the-art filtration equipment and the highest quality materials on the market in the aquarium systems we design. We provide fine workmanship and excellent services that are second to none!

A little about the “why” regular aquarium maintenance is so important.

 

Removal of settled waste

  • Now no matter what filter system you are using in your aquarium, there will always be settled waste products. This waste includes fish waste, plant waste and food waste.

 

  • Besides the obvious result of a cleaner looking aquarium, there is a more important reason behind removing this waste.

 

  • These settled waste products are visible in your fish tank. The problem comes in when this waste starts decomposing and creating invisible toxins in your aquarium.

 

  • These toxins will always be present in any fish tank, but need to be maintained at acceptable levels.

 

  • As the name suggests, you should be looking to clean anything that waste could “settle” on. These will include filters and other equipment, aquarium decorations and of course the gravel inside your tank.

 

Control Aglae Growth

  • Very excessive algae growth can often be a symptom of over-lighting your aquarium. It is not always possible to reduce the lighting you provide your tank as you may need it for your plants to grow.

 

  • With that said, all tanks will have some level of algae growth. Some people like to keep an Algae Eater type fish, or even a few of them to reduce the effect of the proble

 

  • Most aquariums will only need a little bit of attention in this area during fish tank maintenance.

 

Nitrate Control

  • This is again another area that you will gain some insight on by reading the section on the Nitrogen Cycle. Nitrates are an end product of the Nitrogen cycle and it is primarily the aquarium owner that is responsible for keeping its levels under control.

 

  • Nitrate removal is the main reason behind doing your fish tank maintenance at regular intervals. A test kit can help you determine these intervals.

 

  • Nitrates must be kept below 40ppm (parts per million) in a freshwater aquarium, any higher than 40ppm can be considered dangerously high levels. Personally I try to keep my levels between 10ppm and 30ppm.

 

Schedule a free consultation with Dallas Aquarium Experts today and service professional will come to your home or business and access your current situation. Before you make your decision on an Aquarium Maintenance Company in Dallas, allow us the opportunity to provide you a free consultation regarding your current Aquarium or we can provide an estimate on a new aquarium set-up and aquarium maintenance. Your fish will reward you with their natural beauty and years of enjoyment.

 

• Call us at (469) 450-3900

Aquarium Leasing – Dallas Aquarium Experts

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Dallas Aquarium Experts offers all inclusive freshwater aquarium leasing services.

 

Great for your Lobby, Home, or Office

Would you like a beautiful fish aquarium in your home or office?

Low upfront cost and low monthly fee that includes our all “inclusive package” comes with

  • A beautiful aquarium of your choice
  • Many stand and canopy options to match your décor
  • Hand crafted stands to conceal equipment and supplies
  • Hand crafted canopy to conceal lighting system
  • An appropriate number of fish included
  • Replacing  fish if necessary and  accessories if needed
  • Cleaning of aquarium / water change outs
  • Repositioning of the aqua-scaping or variety
  • Includes fish food

Dallas Aquarium Experts – Frequently Asked Aquarium Maintenance Questions

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Frequently Asked Questions

 

How often should my aquarium be serviced?

Frequency of aquarium maintenance and service is determined by the size of your aquarium, how heavily stocked the aquarium is which species of fish or other animals you are keeping, and how you want your aquarium to look.

Dallas Aquarium Experts Service offers weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly service and maintenance customized to your needs.

What are the benefits of having my aquarium or pond professionally maintained?

Regular aquarium service helps to ensure the overall health of your fish, plants, and other aquatic animals. Regular water changes and health assessments help ward off disease and address small problems before they become major issues.

I’m thinking about buying an aquarium, can you help me make the best selection?

Dallas Aquarium Experts Service can help you select the best aquarium, stand, lighting, filtration, and any other equipment you may need. The best choices are based on the animals you would like to keep in your aquarium.

Is having an aquarium a lot of work?

It can be, but having a service and maintenance performed by a professional from Dallas Aquarium Experts Service makes owning a freshwater or saltwater aquarium easy and fun.

Are saltwater aquariums more difficult to care for than freshwater aquariums?

There is a common misconception that saltwater aquariums are more difficult to keep than freshwater aquariums. Although there is some more work associated with successfully keeping a saltwater aquarium, it is not that much more difficult than keeping a freshwater aquarium.

The key to a healthy and enjoyable saltwater aquarium is to set up the aquarium correctly in the first place with proper filtration, animals that are best suited to the environment you wish to create and that are healthy and quarantined before being introduced to the aquarium, and the feeding of a proper diet.

A saltwater tank can be fun, educational, and a beautiful centerpiece in your home or office.

I have one fish that keeps killing all of my other fish. What’s wrong?

This is a common aquarium problem with a simple answer… not all species of aquatic life are compatible in the same aquarium. Expert advice when selecting tank mates can help reduce or eliminate aggression.

How much does aquarium service and maintenance cost?

Schedule a free consultation with Dallas Aquarium Experts today and service professional will come to your home or business and access your current situation. Before you make your decision on an Aquarium Maintenance Company in Dallas, allow us the opportunity to provide you a free consultation regarding your current Aquarium or we can provide an estimate on a new aquarium set-up and aquarium maintenance. Your fish will reward you with their natural beauty and years of enjoyment.

 

• Call us at (469) 450-3900

 

Plastic Plants

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The appearance and variety of artificial plants have really improved in the last ten years.  You can easily find plastic plants in all different colors and sizes to suit your aquarium size and layout.  If you don’t want to crowd the appearance of your tank, buy small plants for the front of the tank and larger plants for the back. 

There are many advantages to artificial plants:

  • Easy to clean
  • Easy to care for
  • Live forever
  • Won’t be eaten
  • Easy to remove
  • Wide variety

There are also a few disadvantages to artificial plants

  • Can look fake
  • Expensive
  • Fish may not like them

During your regular scheduled aquarium maintenance, Dallas Aquarium Experts can rotate your old plants with clean algae free plants on a regular basis to help keep your freshwater aquarium looking it’s best.  Dallas Aquarium Experts offers many different plans available to help us help you keep your Aquarium in top shape, with clean, beautiful, and healthy fish. We can schedule your cleaning visits on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis, as needed to keep your Aquarium properly maintained. 

Whether your need is servicing an existing aquarium, or you are interested in a new aquarium setup, we will schedule a free consultation where an experienced professional will meet with you at your home or place of business. We will assess your current situation and devise a plan that will help you move closer to the aquarium you have always wanted.

 

Call us at (469) 450-3900

Email us at: sales@dallasaquariumexperts.com

    

Freshwater Aquariums

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The most popular type of aquarium is a freshwater system.  It’s the most practical system for a beginning aquarist for several reasons.

  • A freshwater system is not as expensive to set up as a saltwater aquarium
  • Freshwater fish are generally less expensive than marine fish.  It’s much better to work with less expensive fish when you are just starting out, and still learning the ins and outs of the hobby
  • Freshwater fish are readily available at most aquarium shops and come in a wide variety of colorful species.  Marine fish are much more sensitive to water conditions and don’t tolerate mistakes as easily
  • You can have more fish.  You can keep significantly more freshwater fish than marine fish in the same amount of space.

Dallas Aquarium Experts… Our passion, is your peace of mind!