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Livebearing Fish Use in Tanks

Livebearers as guppies (Poecilia reticulata) and mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) can be very useful in the tank systems of public aquariums…

How to Quarantine Fresh and Salt Water Fish, and Invertebrates

While at first thought quarantining your newly purchased fish or invertebrate may seem to be a royal pain, this simple…

Three Strikes

Over time, each species of fish has evolved to fit into the environment in which it is found. Because the…

A TASTE IN FINGERS? – BITTEN BY THE SOUTHERN MOUTHBROODER

The cichlid genus Pseudocrenilabrus consists of four scientifically named Dwarf Haplochromis endemic to the African continent. Here they are found…

Diseases and Your Fish Room an alternative approach

At certain times of the year, it seems a rash of a disease makes its way around any given fish…

Neolamprologus pulcher Daffodil II

When I first started keeping tropical fish as a young child, I often marveled at a fish many stores identified…

How to Buy a Used Tank

How do you beat the high cost of keeping fish? Seems like every time you turn around you have to…

Striking Tanganyikan Gold

While the Mbunas and Haploids of Lake Malawi would be more familiar to most aquarists of the ACT and surrounds,…

Spawning Neolamprologus sp. ‘caudopunctatus kipili’

This is another species of Lake Tanganyikan cichlid that I have been working with recently. As you can tell by…

How Long Do You Wait Before Adding Fish? – and other tips

Opinions vary so much on this subject that it is hard to give a reasonable answer. The Americans for instance…