An introduction to using botanicals

Walk into a local fish store and you will see numerous types of substrates ranging from bright and gaudy gravel to some very high-end aqua soils designed for planted aquariums. Often, we tend to not p

OUR HOBBY HAS come a long way in the last few decades, with a massive increase in the variety of species of fishes and plants, extensive developments in lighting, filtration, heating and the systems n

I AM LUCKY enough to own most of the aquascaping books by the famous Takashi Amano, the godfather of aquascaping and an inspiration to a generation (perhaps now two) of aquarists. The books are filled

Toby explains how plants and trees set up natural defences and outlines what we can do to help

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

Whether you have a tiny terrace or a sprawling plot, now is the perfect time to rewild a patch of earth and create your own edible oasis