Hey guys.....so my teacher assigned us a project in my MSITA class (Microsoft IT Academy(deals with Microsoft Office 2010)) and we are to do a personal powerpoint about anything we choose. Of course, me loving fish, i chose tropical fish keeping. I have to have 15 slides. 1st slide is the introduction slide. Second is choosing a tank. third is setting up, fourht is the cycling process and 5th is about choosing fish which i am going to break down into 3 more slides (aggresive, semi-aggresive and friendly) which puts me at 8, i need ideas for the other 7 please and thanx
I'd split the cycling process into a few slides. One explaining what it is (including the nitrogen cycle), types of cycling and why it's done and one explaining how to do it.
You could probably also split the "setting up" slides into 2 sections and lots of slides, because planning is an important part of setting it up. People may want to go down the biotope route, others down the typical community tank route. For this reason I'd probably stick the choosing fish section around there rather than at the end, because this is a decision most people make before, and plan the tank and set-up around it.
In terms of the planning slides also, I'd talk about live/fake plants and the advantages/disadvantages of both, types of rock to use, wood etc and decoration.
You could do slides on diseases, how to cope with crashes, etc, as well as feeding, breeding etc (as mentioned above), though I personally wouldn't go into breeding without lots of prior experience, simply as it's such a broad topic.
It'd be much easier here to be specific on each slide rather than covering very broad points very quickly. If you're detailed with what you do it's likely to get you a better mark.
So I'd do the following:
1. Intro slide.
2. Planning - what types of fish appeal.
3. Planning - choosing an appropriate tank for these fish, why bigger is better.
4. Planning - Style of tank (biotope or community)
5. Planning - Stocking and tankmates (peaceful - medium - aggressive)
6. Planning - Stocking and tankmates (biotope)
7. Planning - Plants (fake/real? Why?)
8. Equipment.
9. Setting up.
10. Setting up (I say 2 slides, be thorough on it)
11. Cycling (what it is, benefits, types of cycling)
12. Cycling (explaining the nitrogen cycle)
13. Cycling (fishless cycling process)
14. Maintenance (feeding, water changes etc)
15. Problems (diseases, bad choice of fish, deaths, pH crashes, tank cracks. Can be covered fairly basically).
Something along those lines, anyway. I put so much emphasis on the planning part because for me it's the most important aspect. With good planning you can avoid so many problems and make maintenance very easy.
Hope that helps.