Achieving the impossible a 6-year-old planted cichlid tank

MY AQUARIUM JOURNEY began with Malawi cichlids. I dove deep, focusing so intensely on Mbuna that I barely noticed any other fish in stores. That has now definitely changed; I’m finally ready to embrac

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

WHILE WE ALL share one common hobby, fishkeeping, there is another that many fishkeepers appear to enjoy partaking in. Growing house plants. I am no different; I have numerous pots and propagation jar

Striking pops of autumnal colour, brilliant ideas for small shady spaces and even a wildlife pond in a pot – this urban oasis has it all…

IT HAS BEEN my longstanding dream to keep miniature versions of aquatic giants in my aquariums. I’m pretty sure that many of you wouldn’t mind having a pygmy white shark or a dwarf killer whale (had t

It’s all about the choreography of the plants, about the foliage especially, the broad and the narrow, the upright and the sprawling, the moss green and the lime, and all that is green in between,” sa