The joy of tiddlers

A sturdy bonsai freshwater swashbuckler, the spiny stickleback is often the first fish we catch as children

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

TO BEGIN THE story of how I came to build a display aquarium in a zoo, we need to go back almost 7 years to when I first encountered these ‘wild’ guppies. I had just started working as an aquarium tec

HAVING FINISHED KITTING up, we were now perched on the side of the dive boat, bobbing up and down alongside a Red Sea reef as the dive master went through our final safety briefing. As well as a run t

AQUARISTS HAVE LONG been fascinated by fish species that are not only interesting but, above all, are beautifully coloured. From the western and central regions of Africa originate several vibrantly c

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