Aquarium Fish Blog

2008 has been designated as the “Year of the Reef”.  Coral reefs around the globe are taking direct hits from many different directions.  Tourism, shipping, diving, pollution and locals destroying reef structures for infrastructure projects are all to blame.  It’s been estimated that the aquarium industry takes a toll, albeit a very small one on the coral reefs.  We […]

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As a frequent browser of several fish and aquarium forums, I frequently come across many things that make me go “Huh?”. You’ll even see this one inch of fish per gallon of water rule (or guideline) advocated on some of the fish and aquarium websites on the net. Let’s talk about […]

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The idea behind this post comes after reading several boards on various fish and aquarium forums across the great wide web. I’m always coming across posts that start off like this: “I recently set up a new tank and now I think all the fish have ich”. Or, “My fish has fin […]

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Question: What is one of the best things you can do to ensure that you will be successful keeping freshwater and saltwater fish in your aquarium?
Answer: The partial water change of course. Performing regular partial water changes has numerous benefits and we’ll review them here.

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A very important part of keeping fish in aquariums is testing the water periodically. There are many different types of aquarium test kits out there and it can be confusing in deciding which ones to get and what to test for in your fish tank.
If you have a newly setup fish tank, you […]

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If you spend any amount of time browsing the fish forums you will soon come to the realization that there are many pet fish keepers that are totally unprepared and not very responsible when it comes to keeping aquariums. It’s unfortunate that fish are not afforded the same level of care as other pets […]

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I think most aquarium keepers go through some sort of algae problem at least once when keeping a fish tank. There are some things that you can do to fix these algae blooms and you can even prevent them from happening in the first place.

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Hello World! This is my first blog post, just to test the waters. I’m working on uploading some saltwater fish photos. I just need to crop and resize them for quicker loading on the website.

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