Articles
Articles
Writing about keeping fish, the fish themselves and the people behind the hobby.
- Articles
- 27
- Longest
- 2,779 words
- Oldest
- 2012
- Retired to redirects
- 127
Start here · 2,542 words
Cycling an Aquarium
Mark G N Ferguson breaks down the process every new aquarium depends on — where the ammonia comes from, where the bacteria come from, and how to get them established.
2012 · review dueRead →
Subject5 articles
Getting started
Cycling, filtration, stocking, and the myths that cost beginners their first fish.
Cycling an Aquarium · Stunted growth means stunted lives · The HMF - What's That?
Subject3 articles
Water & habitat
Blackwater, hardness, temperature — recreating the conditions a species actually evolved in.
All the leaves are brown... · For Peat’s Sake... · Whaddaya mean, too hot?
Subject4 articles
Species & natural history
One fish at a time — what it does in the wild, and what it takes to keep and breed it.
Botiid fishes of the 'Modesta complex' – an analysis of natural history and behaviorisms · Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider 1801 · Breeding Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki - the dwarf chain loach
Subject9 articles
Taxonomy & nomenclature
Why the name on the shop tank keeps changing, and which one is currently right.
Pupfish form evolutionary 'mountain ranges' · South Asian barbs - a guide to nomenclature · Three new loaches of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758
Subject3 articles
Conservation & the wild
Field accounts, threatened habitats, and the species that are down to a single pool.
The Desert Fish Habitat Partnership · European killifishes part 1: the genus Aphanius in Spain · FFSG has global mission
Subject3 articles
People & interviews
Conversations with the ichthyologists, breeders and collectors this hobby runs on — and the ones it has lost.
A Passion for Cichlids · Africhthy, a new collaborative network for African ichthyology · In Memoriam: U Tin Win (1944 - 2014)
The whole list
All 27 of them, grouped by subject, with word counts and review dates.