In this section we aim to include useful
text and articles from the hobby covering a broad range of
topics. Several of the main fish clubs in the U.K will be
contributing material over the coming months.
By Neale Monks
The discus is considered by many to be the finest of all freshwater
aquarium fish. It is certainly a handsome animal; regular, wild-type
discus have a reddish-green body with an attractive pattern of electric blue markings. At about
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Kribs and Cousins
There are some fish that you are so used to seeing around that they just become part of the wallpaper; when you're shopping round the aquariums for a new project to try you just pass over them on
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If you ask someone to imagine an aquarium, they usually imagine it full of pretty fish - rather like the typical dentist's waiting room tank. Neon tetras feature largely, angel fish, guppies - or sometimes some fat goldfish with pretty
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A Rainbow in the Tank
Those of us who live in areas where the kettle is permanently coated with a layer of white fuzz and you need half a bottle of shampoo to get a few bubbles may well look at
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Captivating Corydoras
People buy new fish for many reasons - their beauty, interesting habits, the nice green 'community-safe' sticker on the tank... but a lot of little catfish have gone home with someone because the buyer couldn't resist a fish
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It was all going so well.....
After you have steered your new aquarium through the shoals and sandbanks waiting to snare the inexperienced fish keeper, you can bob for a while in the calm lagoon beyond. Feet up on
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