Gone native

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

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

A sturdy bonsai freshwater swashbuckler, the spiny stickleback is often the first fish we catch as children

Around six months ago I was shown a video of a stunning river style aquarium home to rosy bitterlings that were spawning in the mussels that also lived in the tank. This is a behaviour you don’t often

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

You can’t beat roving on a river or surface fishing for carp