To crab,or not to crab?

THE CARIBBEAN HAS long been regarded as a diver’s paradise, and for good reason. A sprawling patchwork of islands, spread over a million square miles, they encompass almost every type of underwater ha

IT’S CRAZY HOW time is flying. It seems as if it was only yesterday when I received my very first group of shrimp. But, in fact, it was well over two decades ago when my good friend put a dozen of pal

Squinting, it looks like a piece of popcorn. It’s hard to imagine this tiny orb could be a lifeline for coral reefs around the world. “That will have maybe eight or 12 eggs,” says Dr Jamie Craggs as I

WITH THE INCREASED use of dry rock over live rock, you might hope that marine pests have become a thing of the past. Unfortunately, these little critters – that can cause havoc in a reef tank – still

WITHIN THE AQUARIUM hobby, all sorts of bottom-dwelling, cyprinid-adjacent fishes are referred to by the name 'loaches'. So, we have the hillstream loaches of the family Gastromyzontidae, of which the

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