Discovered by Robert John Lechmere Guppy in Trinidad in 1866, this tiny fish with the wonderfully vibrant tail is today one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species in the world. They are also called millionsfish. It is a small member of the Poecilidae family (females 4-6 centimetres long, males 2½–3½ centimetres long) and [...]
Pets are known to make good companions with dogs taking the lead. However, pets of the aquatic kind may finally be getting their place in the sun. People are finally realizing that fishkeeping is less demanding and less expensive than keeping dogs or cats, with tanks today being virtually maintenance free. In fact, there are [...]
Well, we were kind of cornered into it because our original tank sprung a leak, but now that we have it, this is definitely an improvement over our previous tank. This time we opted for one of those tanks with the curved one-piece glass front. This one is effectively two pieces of glass – the [...]
The ocean’s delicate acid balance may be getting help from an unexpected source, fish poop. The increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere not only drives global warming, but also raises the amount of CO2 dissolved in ocean water, tending to make it more acid, potentially a threat to sea life. Alkaline chemicals like calcium [...]
In what may be the fishiest case of shoplifting ever, a Long Island man stole a shark worth $350 from a pet store’s tank by putting it under his coat and sneaking away. Thankfully, the shark survived. Weird, what must that guy have been thinking? The shoplifter, Elbert Starks, then took the foot-long baby nurse [...]
The millions of testers who opt to download and install Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 prepare to be greeted by the new default wallpapers of the operating system, featuring none other than the Siamese fighting fish. In fact, Windows 7 has been offering users a chance to have the the Betta splendens, as their [...]
Researchers at Israeli Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa said fish trained to remember a certain sound at feeding time reacted to the same sound after five months in the wild. The researchers said the findings could help promote more natural fish farming techniques, allowing fish farmers to release trained fish into the wild to [...]
The brownsnout spookfish, a bizarre “four-eyed” fish, has been identified as the only backboned creature known to use mirrors rather than lenses to get images into focus. The brownsnout spookfish, Dolichopteryx longipes, has ordinary eyes with lenses pointing upwards, but alongside them are downward-looking eyes fitted with tiny mirrored plates. The plates, thought to be [...]
