Intro / Uvod

English version
Therefore, the matter was [again] rolling late last year when I took upon my long-ago concieved, but never realised wish: owning an aquarium. While I was a kid, fascinated with its colors and beauty, I wished to grow fish of my own at home. Different kind of obstacles prevented me from doing so: absence of any knowledge in the field of forming and maintaining an aquarium; lack of financial, but also more important moral support from my parents; and already limited living space. And, perhaps the following fact many of us simply do not want to admit, but all the great things in life require good will and responsibility from us - something, despite all listed circumstances above, I was not ready for.

Thanks to the internet revolution, which inevitably affected my area, knowledge about what I need and how to properly embark into succesfull fishkeeping made myself confident and more closer to the moment of long-standing dream realisation. I have read several books of foreign and domestic literature "from A to Z" (book and useful links in the special blog edition), studied the ecology of the closed system and realized that it was much more than "beauty and diversity" that originally attracted me.

Of course, it still holds good old saying - the theory and practice are completely different matters. While everything may just look perfect on paper, in practice it is not always so. However, I've made my final decision and after several months of planning sailed into a new adventure...

Srpska verzija
Dakle, stvar se [opet] zakotrljala krajem prošle godine kada sam se ponovo "uhvatio" za svoju davno začetu, a nikad ne ostvarenu želju: posedovanje akvarijuma. Još kao mali, fasciniran njegovom lepotom i šarenilom, poželeo sam da i ja gajim kućne ribice, ali su me nekoliko stvari u tome sprečavale: nikakvo znanje iz oblasti formiranja i održavanja akvarijuma; nedostatak finasijske, ali i moralne podrške od strane roditelja; recimo da je i nedostatak životnog prostora u svemu igrao značajnu ulogu. I možda sledeću činjenicu mnogi ne žele sebi da priznaju, ali za sve velike stvari u životu je neophodna dobra volja i odgovornost sa naše strane - nešto na šta, pored svih navedenih oteževajućih okolnosti iznad, ja nisam bio spreman.

Zahvaljujući informatičkoj revoluciji, koja je neminovno zahvatila i ovdašnje prostore, neophodno znanje o tome šta vam je sve potrebno i kako pravilno zaploviti u vode akvaristike učinile su da, pre svega, otklonim sumnju i strah od čitavog hobija i samu ideju još više približim trenutku realizacije dugogodišnjeg sna. Pročitao sam nekoliko knjiga inostrane i domaće literature "od A do Š" (o knjigama i korisnim linkovima u posebnom izdanju), prostudirao ekologiju zatvorenog sistema i shvatio da je to znatno više od "lepote i šarenila" koje me je prvobitno privuklo.

Naravno, i dalje važi ona dobra stara izreka - teorija je jedno, praksa drugo. I dok sve može izgledati savršeno na papiru, u praksi to nije uvek tako. Doduše, važi i obrnuto. Ipak, prelomio sam i nakon nekoliko meseci planiranja (tzv. visinskih priprema) krenuo u novu avanturu...