Beginners guide to biotoping

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

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

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

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

Fancy being featured in the next issue of Practical Fishkeeping Magazine? Showcase your work and share your photographs with the Fishkeeping community – if you have a tank you’re proud of, we want to

THOSE WHO HAVE been following these monthly SHOAL conservation features will know that freshwater fish are in freefall. Populations are nosediving worldwide, declining at more than twice that of their