An appropriate filtration system is a must in any aquarium if you want healthy fish and plants. Broadly, there are three types of filtration that are available today – biological, mechanical and chemical. While, if you have a marine aquarium you would pretty much need to have all three types of filtration for your tank, [...]
Very broadly, fish can be roughly divided into three types – community fish, semi-aggressive fish, and aggressive fish. When you are planning your community tank, you need to decide what are the kind of fish that you want to keep, and decide on each individual species accordingly. For a community tank for instance, you would [...]
So, you’ve decided to go in for a community tank [Read Species Aquarium Or Community Aquarium?], and now you’re wondering which are all the different fishes you could get for your aquarium. It does take a bit of research, but its not too difficult. Temperament: For one, you need to check out the social skill [...]
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 [...]
The dietary needs of the various fish differ from fish to fish. Take piranha for instance – they need a healthy diet of meat, as do fish like parrot fish, which could do with beef heart once in a while to retain their colors. Herbivores, on the other hand, need plants for them to nibble [...]
This is a question that is quite relevant and pertinent to answer. Overfeeding is a common mistake that new aquarists make – they probably get carried away by the way the fish come to the front of the aquarium and “beg” for food. However, overfeeding clogs the filters, the fish dirty the water more, and [...]
If you were ask People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), you would get a vehement YES!. However, Bill Smoker, professor of fisheries at the University of Alaska Fairbanks claims that the scientific community seems to think otherwise. “Fish lack the higher level brain structures and are not able to be conscious of something [...]
This is one question that confronted me when I was setting up my first aquarium, and there is no definitive answer to it. A species tank is typically one which has only one species of fish (in truth, it is rare to find a species tank, since you would want other species such as algae [...]
