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DR PETER BURGESS Peter is our disease expert. Send questions his way if you have pathogen problems. BOB MEHEN Bob is a master of fishkeeping general knowledge and community tanks. JEREMY GAY Jeremy is

The oceans are constantly moving, and water flow is actually even more critical to corals than light. Many corals in the deep oceans survive without any light, gaining all their nutrition from capturi

WAY BACK WHEN I first started keeping fish I was instantly drawn to, what were at the time, the genus Corydoras. Their cute demeanour and the constant shuffling over the substrate had me captivated in

THINK OF SOUTH American fishes and we mostly think of species from the Amazon basin. Like all river basins, the Amazon has an edge, in this case, one of those edges is the Guiana Shield, a region rich

IN THE AUGUST ‘25 edition of PFK, I discussed at length one of my favourite oddball fish: the urchin clingfish, scientifically known as Diademichthys lineatus. In said article, I mentioned that althou

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