ES1288039U - Double bottom individual aquarium urn (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Individual double-bottom aquarium urn (1) characterized in that it consists of a base (1a) and four external, smooth and transparent walls (1b, 1c, 1d, 1E), plus an additional wall integrated into the inside of it urn (2), which divides its inner area into two useful spaces; a spacious area (3) reserved exclusively so that the fish develops its activity and include natural or decorative elements, and another rear zone (4) in which the necessary technical and biological elements are located, which allow reproducing form Artificial the natural habitat of the fish. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

Single Double Bottom Aquarium Urn

Technical sector

The purpose of this utility model application is to register an aquarium urn with a double bottom, inspired by the fundamental concepts of technical aquarium hobby, which incorporates a series of advantages compared to current aquariums used for the same purpose.

It is known that, in terms of the set of aquariums intended for betta fish, in its ornamental or wild variety, the trend to date has been to place them in exaggeratedly tiny fish tanks called betteras and in nanoaquariums for general use for different species of fish. fish, making it impossible to adequately cater for the specific needs of the betta species; either due to the lack of integration in these urns of biological components and unresolved technical deficits, which interfere with the habitat of the fish and do not allow artificially reproducing the appropriate environment for it. The present model comes to solve this problem, by establishing with its double bottom two appropriate areas in the same urn; one to allow housing the technical part and the relevant biological load of the aquarium and another so that the betta fish can live and develop in optimal conditions.

Background of the invention

The activity known as aquarium hobby or aquaculture, consists of the care and/or reproduction of fish in closed or artificial environments managed by man intentionally and not casually or by chance. This practice dates back several centuries before Christ; in the ancient oriental civilizations of India and China, but also and closer, in the ancient Sumerian culture and in ancient Egypt. However, current archaeological records indicate that the first and oldest archaeological evidence of keeping fish in containers for recreational purposes comes from this last civilization and this was a practice that was oriented almost exclusively to freshwater fish species.

In Europe, the concept of a transparent container for use indoors in order to observe different types of animals and plants, many of them dead, arose around the 18th century. At first the intention was scientific but, after a short time, the wealthy classes developed the aesthetic concept. The first aquariums consisted of metal frames in which the crystals were embedded, which reduced the view of the interior.

Despite the fact that the most demanded objects and animals to collect and admire were the marine ones, saltwater aquariums had a much slower development than freshwater ones, even though they were the first to be investigated. The reason for this delay was fundamentally technical development. However, it is in the middle of the European 20th century when freshwater and saltwater aquariums begin to experience a breakthrough in terms of maintenance and recreation.

Leaving aside the preservation of species and scientific study, the development of aquarium hobby in European homes has been due, mainly, to all the benefits that this activity can bring to the person who carries it out properly.

The first benefit is the enjoyment of an aquatic environment at home, or in another facility, the mission for which they were created. But in addition several advantages have been discovered associated in the care of any pet. The fauna and flora of an aquarium are living beings and, therefore, require care such as food, almost constant temperature or hygiene, which is a cause for positive concern for the person who owns them and, therefore, a responsibility that contributes alleviate loneliness, stress, monotony and other negative psychological effects. The care of an aquarium, with aquatic beings in it, does not require long, arduous or noisy daily tasks. An aquarium takes up little space and its maintenance is relatively cheap in the case of a freshwater aquarium, since the economic issue changes for saltwater aquariums.

Another benefit lies in its teaching potential, since owning a living being is a good way to teach children to take responsibility for their care, as well as learning about the biology of other species and how to respect them. Both an aquarium as such, and an outdoor pond, allow to know the biological cycles, the behavior of the animals that inhabit it or to become familiar with the maturity of the ecosystem, among other uses.

However, aquariums also provide the exclusive advantage of being able to be a decorative element, both for its luminosity and for its architectural function, being able to visually divide a room or to decorate a wall. That is why it is worth mentioning that, unfortunately, on successive occasions it has been the preponderance of the aesthetic factor over other more important ones, which has come to negatively affect some species of fish used in the hobby of aquarium hobby; among them, the betta fish.

Currently, numerous small aquarium urns are known, which simply consist of four walls and a base that allow the fish or fish and the liquid element to be housed. In these urns, a series of technical devices can be included in order to maintain an adequate temperature of the water and to generate both movement and relative filtering of the same.

Thus, regarding very small format aquarium urns, thereby making specific reference to those urns that can contain twenty liters or less of water, the following types can be cited:

1st. Betteras: The betteras are fish tanks for bettas or aquarium urns with a rectangular appearance (taller than wide), which appeared in Spain in a general way in the nineties as a response to the traditional fish tanks in the shape of a globe. Once it was demonstrated by the scientific community how inadequate or harmful these balloon fish tanks are, either by distorting the vision of the fish or by not allowing the correct oxygenation of the water or the appropriate inclusion of technical elements (among other aspects), the use of this type of urns for betta fish. Their design is simple (a base and four transparent walls), and they essentially pursue an aesthetic objective and merely reduce economic cost. The capacity of the so-called betteras basically ranges between 1.5 liters and 6.5 liters, depending on the model that we can find on the market.

2nd. Nanoaquariums: Commonly referred to as nanoaquariums are aquarium urns with a capacity equal to or less than thirty-five liters (35 l.) approximately. The main benefit for the betta is that it has more swimming space, but the technical elements are still in direct contact with the fish. Aquariums that are already of a greater capacity and up to seventy liters (70 l.), are usually defined as small aquariums.

However, it should be emphasized that those nanoaquariums with a capacity equal to or greater than twelve liters (12 l.) no longer contemplate a use intended exclusively for betta fish, but for various types of aquatic specimens. Emphasize that the same is currently happening with urns that have a capacity greater than fifteen liters (15 l.) and are large for the capacity of water they treat, which are provided with a backpack or specific external filtering system attached. ; because these are specifically designed to be shrimp in some cases and to house saltwater fish, in others.

In any case, when they are intended for the care of betta fish, both types of aquarium urns have in common the need to incorporate in the urn:

1st. Aquarium water heating devices (or aquarium heaters):

These are in direct contact with the fish, that is, with its fins and scales. A device of this type, present in the swimming area of the fish, has the drawback of being able to cause contact burns to the fish when it rests or leans on it looking for a place of shelter. These burns are usually not noticeable to untrained eyes.

2nd. Small internal filters for fish: In the aforementioned type of urns, they achieve a constant movement of practically all the water in the aquarium, which is not convenient for the betta fish since it generates excess stress by having to fight against the generated current that pushes or overcomes its fins. In addition to this, this current of water negatively affects the betta when it comes to having to build a bubble nest on the surface of the water. Currently, the main shortcoming of these small internal filters is that in no case do they achieve efficient filtering of the water in the urn, which has given them a bad reputation in the world of aquarium hobby.

Since bettas are animals that in the wild feed primarily by hunting living organisms such as zooplankton, insects, and insect eggs or larvae found on the surface of the water, it is imperative that these animals be properly conditioned and maintained. water filtration, to prevent uneaten remains of this type of food (frozen or not) and waste materials, from generating toxic levels of ammonia and nitrites that make bettas sick quickly and die.

3rd. Backpack filters: Optionally and for this type of aquarium, there are these external filter systems, attachable from the outside to one of the walls of the aquarium urn. These backpack filters, apart from spoiling the overall appearance of the urn and occupying more space than it occupies in itself, are fundamentally intended for the simple recirculation of water and the filtering of residues to achieve the apparent cleanliness of the water, but in In no case are these designed to house elements that include the biological component that helps to properly condition the water (for example, ceramic tubes where bacteria are housed). An example close to what has been explained, we could find it by comparing the task of the backpack filter with the person who cleans a pool by passing a net that collects leaves or other debris that are on the surface of the water or on the bottom; This would result in water with a clean appearance, but in no case does it mean that this action implies that the water is properly conditioned.

4th. LED lighting systems: We refer to this type of lighting, since it is the system that today is displacing other visible light emission systems. in the world of aquarium hobby, by being integrated with greater success both for its practical aspect (multiplicity of possibilities and forms, malleability...) and for its reduced dimensions.

Currently these lighting systems, present in certain types of betteras and nanoaquariums for bettas, fulfill an essentially aesthetic function and do not allow the intensity of the light flow to be regulated. This factor, again, is detrimental to the welfare of the betta fish; since every time the fish has to emerge to take a breath (or eat, etc.) it must face a beam of light that undoubtedly dazzles it but, as the saying goes, the more hunger strikes. If we stick to the scientific fact, for betta fish it is better than these fixed lighting systems integrated into the urn (or that can optionally be purchased on the market), turn on for only a couple or three hours a day and leave the betta urn in an area where the fish can live with indirect, day-to-day lighting, whether natural or artificial.

It should be remembered that in the natural habitat of the betta, in which it feels comfortable, direct daytime light is usually not abundant or what it will look for to survive or to flee from predators. However, betta fish are diurnal, which means they are active during the day and sleep at night, needing darkness to get a good night's rest.

In recent years, from the 1970s to the present day, the excessively pragmatic Western mentality regarding life in the continental aquatic world has indiscriminately believed that a specific state of natural survival of these fish betta, which took place in an excessively reduced aquatic environment or spaces, could be the permanent state in which these fish could live. Thus, the difference between living and surviving was forgotten, but also the fact that the life cycle of these animals in their aquatic environment is not static, which means that it does not comply at all with the concept of a permanent seclusion in the same environment. microspace (this being a volume of water that would comprise approximately 250 ml to two liters).

This way of thinking, based on a lack of extensive scientific knowledge of the species, was widely held in the Western aquarium world, leading initially to placing betta fish in balloon-shaped tanks (which are now has proven to be the worst of the options as a container to house fish) and, later, in very small urns called betteras, as they are intended exclusively for the betta fish group. These betteras do not take into account the biological and behavioral needs of the animal at all, but the decorative or aesthetic human needs that seek to satisfy the desire to have a beautiful animal in an exaggeratedly small space at the cost of a ridiculous economic waste.

It is for all these reasons that it can be said that what has been overlooked so far about these betta fish is that:

1st. Although they are very territorial, they do not remain permanently in the same reduced physical space, but rather constantly seek to move from environment to environment, with the aim of finding optimal environmental conditions for their own feeding and reproduction.

Betta fish, native to Southeast Asia, can be found living in varied freshwater ecosystems with particular characteristics, such as vegetated lentic environments or bodies of water or other aquatic ecosystems of slow and calm currents. Some examples would be the shallow waters of swamps, lakes, ponds, ponds, rice fields and ponds. The range of physical-chemical conditions of the water where these fish live is variable, but in general they prefer warm waters, with a slightly acidic pH and low hardness.

°. Betta fish in the wild are not the same in morphology as betta fish called hybrids or ornamentals : On the one hand, in wild specimens the pattern or color of scales has a rather dark hue (generally brownish with bluish or greenish stripes and only in some cases with minimal touches of red and white on the fins), and this is duller especially in the females of the species. On the other hand, the overall length of the fins of specimens or wild betta specimens (dorsal, pectoral, caudal and ventroanal fins) can be up to two-thirds less than that of hybrid or ornamental betta fish.

As for the sale of these fish, it must be remembered that although some specimens are currently caught in the wild, most of them come from breeding and hybridization farms at origin, where it is common practice to keep them in very little ones. In other words, hybrid bettas are the product of many successive crosses between captive wild betta splendens and selective breeding. This has been carried out for many years and has given rise to the different types and varieties of hybrid betta, which are usually classified mainly by the color and type of fins. According to the latter, the main ones stand out:

- Betta halfmoon or halfmoon betta: Betta with elongated fins, whose fan-shaped caudal fin can open up to a span of one hundred and eighty degrees (180°). Varieties within this type would be; the over-halfmoon betta (or more than half-moon betta), the rosetail betta (or rosetail betta, by the appearance of its tail fin) and the feathertail betta (or feathered tail, by the appearance of the tail fin).

- Crowntail betta or crown tail betta: Similar to the previous one but named for the appearance of a pointed crown of the fins. It has the membrane of its fins significantly reduced, which allows the rays of said fins to be seen as extensions. Within this type, there would be the combtail or comb tail betta (the rays of the tail are longer than the membrane) and the half-sun or half-sun betta (with simpler tail rays and reduced in length, since the membrane of the tail is more than two-thirds longer than its rays, giving it a sun-like appearance).

- Betta double tail or double tail betta: It has a forked caudal fin, which gives the appearance of being divided in two.

- Betta veiltail or veil tail betta: It has large fins, but what fundamentally distinguishes it is that its caudal and anal fins are much more elongated, vaporous and drooping.

- Betta Plakat: It is the most similar to the wild betta , in terms of robustness and reduced size of fins.

- Betta delta: The delta tail starts narrow towards the body of the betta fish and widens towards the outer tips of it, giving itself a triangular shape. This tail has sharp, straight edges and only a span of about ninety degrees (90°). There are the shovel- tailed betta varieties (because of the shovel-like appearance of the caudal fin) and the superdelta betta (endowed with a caudal fin with a span of 130°).

- Betta spadetail or sword tail betta: The caudal fin of this betta is similar to that of the delta but ends in a central peak at the end of it, resembling an ace of spades of cards).

- Betta Dumbo: This is a betta fish with oversized pectoral fins, compared to specimens of the species itself.

3rd. Their natural aquatic environment or environment allows them a biological interaction: This interaction occurs, in addition to other aquatic species in the environment, with respect to the microbial and bacterial fauna that is beneficial to them and protects them, for example, against possible attacks on their fins and scales by fungi, as well as their digestive system avoiding the usual obstructions that can happen to them. It is for this reason that an artificial environment designed for the betta must not forget to contemplate this factor of interaction at the 'micro' level, which is so fundamental for the fish.

It is necessary to highlight that at present, be they betteras or nanoaquariums, among the fundamental shortcomings of the aquarium urns intended so far for bettas, the following stand out:

1. Regarding the microbiome: Until now , the innumerable urns created for betta fish have ignored the possibility of including, in situ and at the same time, a filtration and a bacterial load that would eliminate waste from the water (nitrates, nitrites, ammonium... ) and to prevent both the appearance of fungi on the fins of these animals and the attacks of harmful bacteria that produce the phenomenon of stuck fins and fin rot, which can end the life of the betta in a short period of time. of time.

2. On the other hand, in the commercial aquariums designed up to the present moment, the fact of being able to include a harmless system for the regulation of the water temperature (thermo-heater) for this fish, which lives in nature in an aquatic environment with tropical annual temperatures which can range, in general, from 24 to 30 degrees centigrade in the water.

3. Regarding the availability of a sufficient and necessary space for the betta fish, above all we could say that nanoaquariums for bettas and betteras, do not take into account appropriate parameters of height and length of the aquarium or appropriate to the characteristics of the betta.

3.1.- Especially regarding the current aquarium urns called betteras:

3.1.a.- The dimensions are so small (6.5 liters or less) that they prevent the aquatic environment of the fish from becoming properly oxygenated, or hygienic enough: it gets dirty constantly and can present, shortly after the renewal of the water, a usual turbidity. Consequently, it is necessary to renew the water practically total and so frequent, that this very negatively affects the levels of stress and well-being of the betta fish.

3.1.b.- Due to the small size and poor distribution of its space, in no case do they allow the incorporation of temperature regulation and filtering systems for betta fish; not even that we wanted to acquire the smallest and most commonly accessible technical devices on the market. Due to this, the betta fish lives 'bareback' in this type of urns or fish tanks as a victim of fate, that is, depending exclusively on the temperature of the environment outside the urn and on the needs of changing the water that it understands have the user or owner of the fish.

3.2. - Nanoaquariums intended for bettas, which generally have a capacity between seven liters (7 l.) and twelve liters (12 l.), do not contemplate the provision of an appropriate or optimal aquarium or habitat height for this fish : Ornamental betta fish, specifically males, generally have oversized fins which require adequate swimming space and, in turn, force the fish to make a significant effort to move in order to control its territory, feed and/or fertilize, protect and control the spawning eggs that they extract from the females with a characteristic hug (picking up those that fall to the ground and placing them in the bubble nest created by them on the surface of the water to house them). Regarding the latter, only a few specimens of wild betta fish are mouthbrooders and, in this case, mouthbrooding is carried out by the male of the species maintaining a long period of fasting. Due to their task as parents, male betta splendens are very territorial and, for this reason, there should only be one single specimen per small or medium aquarium.

Nor should we forget that betta fish are labyrinthine or anabanthid fish with a fusiform and hydrodynamic body of small size (males reach a maximum length of about seven centimeters including the size of the fins), which means that they need to emerge relatively frequently from the water. , since ascending to the surface they can carry out the air intake. All these issues force the urn environment, where the bettas live, to have a suitable height ratio for them. Consequently, against these mentioned requirements are urns with a height of less than fifteen centimeters (15 cm) and greater than twenty centimeters (20 cm).

3.3. - Aquarium urns intended for betta fish usually have a length that is often much less than twenty-five centimeters (25 cm): This, in fact, does not at all allow adequate swimming exercise for the betta. This aggravating circumstance has repercussions on the harmful increase in their stress, which will favor both the acquisition of behaviors typical of captive animals and diseases due to this factor.

The solutions adopted so far, regarding the shortcomings observed in the current aquarium urns for bettas, have been provisional and have taken place at the initiative of the users themselves who are experts in aquariums, who:

1. They have provided the urn with an external filtering system (backpack filter, etc.); which inconveniently increases the physical space occupied by the aquarium, being unsightly and that in no case contemplates the fact of allowing a sufficient and necessary biological load, which is adequate for the environment of the betta fish. 2. To renew the water in the aquarium, it was chosen:

2.1. - On the one hand, because of the hustle and bustle of conditioning and preheating the water before adding it to the urn.

2.2. - On the other hand, by adding a water heater inside the urn in direct contact with the fish, with the inconveniences that this entails: both the reduction of space for the betta, and due to dimensional incompatibilities between the urn and the heater, as well as the risk of fin burns and/or scales for the fish.

3. Users have had to intentionally create vegetative and/or rocky spaces at the bottom of the aquarium, to reduce the height or space available between the water surface and the bottom of the urn.

However, regarding the above, it should be noted that the aquarist has not been able to avoid in any way that the water heating system is in direct contact with the environment of the urn in which the fish is found.

Explanation of the invention

The present invention, as expressed in the title of this specification, refers to an aquarium urn with a double rear bottom, which has been conceived and made in order to obtain numerous and notable advantages with respect to the design of other aquarium urns. existing aquarium, for much more generic purposes.

Due to its dimensions and purpose, said urn could also be qualified as a freshwater nanoaquarium or bettera, but this would be a simplistic reduction of what this urn can really contribute to betta fish. It should, therefore, be appropriately qualified as an individual double-bottomed aquarium urn, the characteristics of which have not yet been applied to bettas or individual freshwater nano- aquariums for bettas, which usually have a capacity of less than twelve litres.

It is for all of the above that we wanted to create this urn design for betta fish; in order to overcome the drawbacks of the current technique, already mentioned, and to make it as easy as possible for the user to be able to take optimal care of the aquatic habitat and the health of their betta fish.

This double bottom aquarium urn is essentially conceived as an individual or specific species aquarium, that is, to contain a certain species of fish; in our case, the betta fish. In other words, although it may occasionally be used for reproductive purposes, this urn is primarily intended to contain a specimen of hybrid or ornamental betta fish (crown tail, veil tail, crescent betta...), or other varieties. betta or wild betta, which will include similar biological and behavioral characteristics.

Obviously, in the matter at hand, it is not enough to look only at the aspect of the space for the fish (which could be solved simply by buying a larger urn), but also to take into account the needs of a aquatic microbiome necessary for bettas, as well as the reproductive, respiratory, and movement (or swimming) needs of hybrid or ornamental betta fish.

In other words, the conception of this urn goes beyond the idea that an aquarium urn is just a container with four transparent walls, to which water and a beautiful fish are added, plus some other random element. The fundamental concept that incorporates the design of this urn is to allow the recreation of a suitable aquatic habitat or biotope that artificially reproduces the fundamental aspects of the ecosystem in which the betta fish lives, without interfering with technical elements ( or mechanical) in the dynamics that the fish usually develops.

This aquarium urn, without a lid to facilitate the exchange of oxygen between air and water, contemplates a rectangular design made up of a base and four exterior side walls that give the general external appearance to the urn and also, in an innovative way, includes the incorporation of an additional wall that is located inside the same urn (parallel to its front) whose design pursues a dual purpose:

1. Allow the smooth flow of water and its good conditioning, by having a certain number of holes in it that allows the communication of the aquatic masses.

2. Allow housing within the single urn, since it maintains adequate technical distances and proportions, both an adequate habitability zone in which the fish develops its daily activity, and a space where the necessary technical and biological elements are located, without that these come to interfere in the area of habitat of the fish.

Thus, the present urn design provided with a double rear wall, or with a double bottom, will respond specifically to the betta fish's permanent habitat needs, as well as to the actual reproductive ones in a timely manner. It should also be noted that its design was executed on December 20, 2020 and, as of today, it has not yet had any type of public dissemination.

Regarding the composition of the materials from which the urn could be made; They could be transparent plastic components (preferably methacrylate plates, etc.) or also, the base and all the walls of the urn (interior and exterior) could be made of glass ( float glass or float glass, or optical glass).

The walls of the urn must have a thickness proportional to the pressure they must withstand. Thus, the lower part or base is usually wider than the upper parts, since otherwise it would not support the force generated by the water column.

In this regard, regarding the thickness of the different component parts of the urn and based on the calculation to compensate for the factor of water pressure that the materials will have to withstand; A thickness of 0.30 centimeters has been calculated for the side walls, 0.20 centimeters for the interior wall and a width or thickness of 0.40 centimeters for the base of the urn. However, to reduce the incidence of said factor, it has been decided to preferably provide the base and the outer walls with a thickness of 0.40 cm, while the first wall or inner wall would have a thickness of 0.20 cm. Said walls of the urn will lack metallic reinforcement and will be siliconed, either with black or transparent acetic silicone, but both with a water resistance factor.

The main innovative features of this urn respond to the fact that its front interior area or space (26.70 cm long x 16.80 cm wide x 16.60 cm high), is provided with the minimum dimensions but sufficient and necessary so that the betta can satisfy its swimming needs, without these being impeded or harmed in any way. Its design avoids to the maximum the fact of affecting the dynamics of the fish within its aquatic environment. Affectation that was due to the inclusion, extraction or regulation of various technical or physical elements present in the area of the aquarium where the fish was, and whose elimination will have a definitive impact on eradicating unnecessary stress factors to the betta. On the other hand, the rear interior area or space with which the urn is provided (26.70 cm long, 4 cm wide and 16.60 cm high), makes it possible to:

1. Preserve the overall aesthetic design of the urn; without there being the need to complement functions and purposes of a relevant aquarium for bettas, with the addition of external elements to the same urn. Everything you need can be included in it.

2. Have a great plasticity to add elements: Both the essential technical elements and the sufficient and necessary biological load, so that it is feasible to recreate in the urn (in an artificial way and much closer to the natural habitat), the desired environment for the betta, reducing the presence of pathogenic elements and providing the most suitable thermal environment for the fish. It is then possible:

2.1. - The inclusion of a permanent biological load: Through, for example, ceramic balls or tubes that allow the residence of bacteria, which contribute to the substantial elimination of pathogenic elements that may be present in fresh water and that are enormously harmful to the health of the betta fish (nitrates, nitrites, ammonium...). This factor of vital importance for bettas could be complemented with the traditional fact of adding plant elements inside the aquarium (plants or logs) and also solids (stones...), which can be done in the front or front space of the aquarium. the urn (26.70 cm long x 16.80 cm wide x 16.60 cm high). It should be noted that the interaction of the bacterial load, present in the rear space, with the front space (where the betta would live), is carried out in the best way with the inclusion of holes eighty centimeters in diameter (0, 80 cm) in the first wall (or inner wall of the urn), the dimension of which does not allow the access of the betta fish, male or female, in the mentioned posterior space.

2.2. - The inclusion of a system of small filtering elements (sponge...) and gentle pumping of the water: which facilitate the purification of the aquatic environment from any accumulation of possible waste and its oxygenation, avoiding the damage caused by stagnation water permanent.

23. - The inclusion of a thermoregulatory system. Which reaches to properly condition the temperature of the water for the betta fish, which will flow through the holes that the first wall or interior wall of the urn has. As the thermo-heater will be located in the back space of the urn, it will no longer be in direct contact with the animal's scales or fins and, therefore, physical damage caused by contact burns will not be possible. In turn, by keeping the aquarium water at an ideal temperature for the betta, heat stress can be avoided for the fish.

3. Prevent technical elements from being accessible to the fish: Or, from another point of view, prevent technical elements from coming into direct contact with the betta , harming or interfering with its vital dynamics.

Taking all this into account, it is essential to highlight that the dimensions of the urn, both the front and rear interior areas already mentioned, converge and generously satisfy two basic and fundamental needs in a minimum but optimal space:

A. The vital needs of the betta fish habitat: In addition to the benefit of having the dimensions of the urn appropriate for the fish, there is also the benefit of being able to carry out the appropriate sanitization of the entire aquatic environment and of successfully achieving good hygiene. conditioning of the necessary volume of water; with the presence of beneficial microbial fauna for the betta and optimal fluidity of the water current. In short, the betta fish is offered a habitat that allows it to live comfortably enough, feed itself properly, as well as carry out its vital functions and reproductive activities without the obstacle of excessive or insufficient physical space. In this sense, the dimensions of the front area of the aquarium will allow the fish to more easily and effectively protect and control the laying roe that it locates and fertilizes in its bubble nest on the surface of the water.

B. The functional and aesthetic needs of the user: As it is an aquarium in which its front and rear parts are integrated into a single unit, the overall aesthetics of the urn is preserved. In turn, the front area of the aquarium allows the user to develop his aquarist hobby without any physical or technical obstacles since, in addition to being an optimal aquarium in dimensions to carry out the care of a betta fish, in the end, the maintenance that is required will be an agile, comfortable and simple task.

In short, with the creation of this individual double-bottom urn, which will house an approximate volume of 9.50 dm3 or 9.50 liters of water, it is intended that an urn or aquarium for bettas include the integrative and necessary functional aspects that make the life of this fish, of fresh and tropical waters, a satisfaction for itself and for the person who is in charge of its care and maintenance at all times.

Finally, according to all the above and in conclusion, it is worth mentioning that in an efficient and effective way, the individual double-bottom aquarium urn for betta fish provides definitive solutions to the notable deficiencies that we can find in the typical and traditional betteras and in nanoaquariums for bettas; deficits that have always been to the detriment of the betta and its well-being, as well as the aspirations of users who are experts in aquariums.

In a certain sense, it should be an object of reflection to prevent the betta fish from continuing to be another new victim of ignorance regarding its species, as the goldfish of Chinese origin was in its time.

Brief description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being made and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, a set of drawings is attached as an integral part of said description, where for illustrative and non-limiting purposes, the following has been represented: Next:

Figure 1.- Shows a three-dimensional front view of the double bottom individual aquarium urn. The drawing is expressed at a scale of 1:6 and in it you can see the two sections in which the inner wall (2) divides the internal area of the urn; the first 17.30 cm wide (3) and the second 4.30 cm wide (4). In the glass or plastic sheet of the inner wall (2), the perforated holes are indicated in blue (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d) and their diameter will be 0.80 centimeters. The thickness of the inner wall (2) will be 0.20 cm, while the thickness of the base (1a) and the rest of the external walls (1b, 1c, 1d and 1e) will be 0.40 cm. The total exterior width of the urn will be 21.80 cm, made up of the 21.00 cm of the base (1a) plus the 0.40 cm thickness of the front wall (1d) and the 0.40 cm of the external posterior wall (1e). On the other hand, the interior width of the front area of the urn will be 16.80 cm and that of the rear area will be 4.00 cm. The outer length of the urn will be 27.50 cm, while the length of the two inner areas will be 26.70 cm. Finally, note that the outside height of the urn will be 17.00 cm, while its inside height will be 16.60 cm.

Figure 2.- Shows a broken down view without scale of the components of the double bottom individual aquarium urn. Here they appear:

• The base of the urn (1a): Dimensions 27.50 cm long, 0.40 cm high and 21.00 cm wide.

• The side walls (1b and 1c): 21.00 cm long, 16.60 cm high and 0.40 cm wide or thick.

• The front wall (1d) and the external rear wall (1e) of said urn: Both of a dimension of 27.50 cm long, 17.00 cm high and 0.40 cm wide.

• The inner wall of the urn (2): 26.70 cm long, 16.60 cm high and 0.20 cm wide or thick. Holes in the plate are indicated (2a, 2b, 2c and 2d).

Figure 3.- Shows a frontal representation without scale of what would be the front part or front wall of the urn (1d) and of its external rear wall (1e). The dimensions of both are 27.50 cm long, 17.00 cm high and 0.40 cm wide.

Figure 4.- Shows a front view without scale of the design of the first wall or inner wall of the invented aquarium urn (2). Its dimensions are 26.70 cm long, 16.60 cm high and 0.20 cm wide or thick. The drilled holes that appear in it have a diameter of 0.80 cm. The holes are distributed according to specific distances:

• The upper hole (2a) is at a distance of 3.50 cm from the top edge of the plate and 3.50 cm from its left side edge.

• The lower hole (2c) is at a distance of 3.50 cm from the lower edge of the plate and from its left side edge.

• The central hole to the left of the plate (2b), is located 3.50 cm from the left side of the plate and at a distance of about 5.00 cm from the respective upper left hole.

• The upper right hole (2d) is at a distance of 3.50 cm from the upper right edge and the right lateral edge of the plate.

Figure 5.- Shows a three-dimensional side view of the aquarium urn, where the lateral proportions of the urn components stand out. While the external height of the urn is 17.00 cm, its internal height will be 16.60 cm. While the largest internal area of the urn is 26.70 cm long and 16.80 cm wide, the smaller internal area will be 26.70 cm long and 4.00 cm wide. The external length of the urn will be 27.50 cm and the total external width of the urn will be 21.80 cm, which includes the total thickness of the front and back plates of the aquarium plus the width of the two interior areas. .

Preferred embodiment of the invention

The present invention, the double bottom individual aquarium urn, is made up of six plates of glass or transparent plastic with a thickness proportional to the pressure they must withstand, 0.40 centimeters for the side walls, 0.20 centimeters for the inner wall and 0.40 centimeters the base of the urn. The plates are joined with black or transparent waterproof silicone, which will hold the structure together.

industry application

The double bottom individual aquarium urn, object of this Utility Model, will be manufactured with the appropriate materials for its elements and components, in transparent plastic material (preferably methacrylate plates) or in glass (float glass plates or optical type).

Claims (3)

1. Double bottom individual aquarium urn (1) characterized in that it consists of a base (1a) and four external walls, smooth and transparent (1b, 1c, 1d, 1e), plus an additional wall integrated inside it urn (2), which divides its interior area into two useful spaces; a large area (3) reserved exclusively for the fish to develop its activity and natural or decorative elements are included, and another rear area (4) in which the necessary technical and biological elements are located in a secluded way, which allow it to reproduce artificial the natural habitat of the fish. 2. Individual double bottom aquarium urn according to claim 1, characterized in that the additional wall integrated inside the urn is provided with holes (2a, 2b, 2c and 2d) that allow the flow, purification and conditioning of the water between the two areas in which said inner wall divides the interior of the urn. 3. Individual double bottom aquarium urn according to claims 1 and 2, characterized by being suitable for housing betta fish, whether they are hybrid or wild specimens.