Fish don’t make noises or contort their faces to show that it hurts when hooks are pulled from their mouths, but a Purdue University researcher believes they feel that pain all the same – and what’s more, their reactions to it are much like that of humans.
Garner and Janicke Nordgreen, a doctoral student in the [...]
The Archerfish (or archer fish) are a family (Toxotidae) of fish known for their amazing ability to seal their gills and shoot a high power stream of water at their prey. This helps them to knock their food off from low hanging branches into the water, which are then gobbled up by the fish. A [...]
The other day, I was at the aquarium supplies store, where I chanced upon a young beau debating with picking up a pair of kissing gourami as a present for his girlfriend. Not doubt he figured it would be an appropriate romantic indication (though I doubt if he realized that the kissing gourami are actually [...]
The goldfish, Carassius auratus, has been a popular pet fish for more than 1,000 years, having evolved from the mutant carp in imperial China. Orange became the most popular colour after common people were banned from keeping yellow goldfish, because it was the imperial colour. The oldest recorded goldfish lived to the age of 49, [...]
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 twice as [...]
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 front [...]
A new study, by researchers at James Cook University, has also found that bigger fish use the threat of punishment to keep competitors in line.
For instance, among goby fish only the largest two individuals, a male and female, have mating rights within a group. All other group members are non-breeding females, each being consistently 5-10 [...]
This is one question that has baffled me for quite some time (and this applies to homing pigeons as well, and err … cats). How is it that some fish, best exemplified by salmon, which can migrate out to sea to feed for several years, still manage to find their way back to the same [...]
