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A pet store has a betta fish in a little plastic cup that looks beautiful. You grab one on impulse thinking it is just going … Read more

You purchase a male guppy with a sword-like tail and a bright blue body, thinking all your sons will be just like him. But what … Read more

Yes you did it. You loaded up the truck, purchased the plants, and got the lights. You filled the tank with substrate and water, turned … Read more

There’s a certain heartbreak that reef keepers face with zoanthids reduced to empty cups. They don’t go missing because of an evil fish or because … Read more

You wait and you wait, spending months setting up rockwork, getting water parameters stable, letting corals get established, etc. It take money. It takes time. … Read more

It’s a hydraulic engineering system: streamlined to move swiftly. Inside its body are special component working together to overcome water resistance. Looking at them make … Read more

Newbies to the hobby typically purchase a heater and leave it to chance. Problem: Ectotherms (like fish) do not maintain an independent body temperature from … Read more

Do you recall setting up your initial freshwater aquarium several years back? You got some neon tetras from the store clerk and maybe a goldfish. … Read more

There’s more to planting a pond than throwing things in it. You get a water lily, drop it into the water and let it die … Read more

This is how frozen shrimp are graded. This is the frozen shrimp grading chart I found, which breaks down various standards of quality based off … Read more