About the Nano-Aquarium Exhibition in Uzhhorod and the Smallest Nano-Aquarium in the World
Вже втретє в Ужгороді відкрилася виставка-конкурс наноакваріумів.
This time, the exhibition featured a total of 11 displays, all made in identical aquariums with a volume of 30 liters. It will last for two weeks, at the end of which the jury will choose the winner of the competition.
The author has many interesting works to his credit - horseshoes for fleas, an imitation of the Eiffel Tower on a mosquito's antenna, violins for cicadas. The micro-miniature master made it into the Guinness Book of Records for creating the smallest book.
Now this craftsman decided to test his skills in nano-aquaristics. There are reasons for this, as Anatoliy Konenko's son is a professional in the field of aquaristics, breeding exotic fish. Once, in a conversation, the son mentioned that an aquarium of microscopic size with real fish, with a volume of only 60 milliliters, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
Then father and son, one busy with slides and the other with aquaristics, did the necessary calculations and realized that they could achieve more and create a nano-aquarium with a volume of only 10 milliliters, which is 6 times smaller than the aquarium in the Guinness Book of Records.
They got to work together - and the job was done! The walls of the aquarium are made of the thinnest acrylic glass, river sand was used as substrate, and three small clumps of cladophora (Egeria densa) were placed in the aquarium, with three fry of Danio rerio "GloFish" swimming among the plants, measuring no more than 3-4 mm. To care for the aquarium, the miniaturist crafted a small net and a special scraper for cleaning the walls of the aquarium.
As for the capillary aeration system, as Anatoliy Konenko later admitted, he had to work the longest on that.
