African sparklers

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

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

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

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

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

ALTHOUGH THE EVER-GROWING presence of online retailers has granted the fishkeeping community with access to countless species in recent times, I’m still very much a sucker for wandering into the store