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Caring for Baby Fish

Successfully managing to breed your tropical fish is one of the most exciting and rewarding things you can do. Suddenly finding yourself responsible for thei...

Adding Octopuses To Your Tropical Fish Tank

Adding Octopuses To Your Tropical Fish Tank Keeping an octopus is one of the trickiest things you can undertake. However, it is without doubt one of the most...

Why do my Fish Keep Dying?

This is a bit difficult to answer without knowing more about the circumstances of the deaths, particularly how the fish looked when they died, but there are...

Caring for Carnivorous Fish

There are all sorts of great tropical fish out there who need a carnivorous diet. They can be exciting to keep, but meeting their nutritional needs can be mo...

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Tropical Fish With Eating Problems

One of the most distressing things that can happen to an aquarist is when fish simply stop eating and die. Sometimes it's a sign of disease but on other occa...

If you have a problem with over-growth of algae in your tropical marine aquarium, there are few better solutions than getting in a sea urchin or two. Althoug...

Caring for Snappers

Large and assertive fish with big appetites, snappers can be quite a challenge to keep in the aquarium. Some species, like black beauties and Mangrove Jacks,...

Elephantnose Fish

If you're looking for a really unusual fish for your tropical freshwater aquarium, Peters' elephantnose fish are second to none. Their fascinating appearance...

Flowering Aquarium Plants

Beautiful plants give the tropical aquarium that little something extra, really helping to show off your fish, but better still are plants with flowers. Alth...

LED Lighting for the Aquarium

Offering greater flexibility, easier to maintain, and needing less power, LED (light emitting diode) lighting is increasingly popular across a range of techn...

Artificial Plants in Aquaria

Are you tired of the constant battle to keep your aquarium looking good when your fish eat all your plants? Artificial plants can look better than you might...

Keeping Shrimp in the Aquarium

Keeping shrimp in your aquarium is a whole new experience, very different from fishkeeping. Although the basic rules for creating a good environment are simi...

Create an Ethical Aquarium

Aquarium keeping is a simple, enjoyable hobby that can provide lots of opportunities to learn about the natural world. Unfortunately, not every company invol...

If the idea of fish in space sounds out of this world, it is! There have in fact been more fish in space than there have humans, and they have been instrumen...

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