Heating the Aquarium
Why tropical fish need heating at all, and the basic ways of providing it — starting from the temperatures the tropics actually hold.
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The HMF - What's That?
Rüdiger Rautenberg on the Hamburger Mattenfilter — cheap, widely loved by German breeders, and barely known outside mainland Europe.
South Asian barbs - a guide to nomenclature
An extensive review has broken up the genus Puntius and moved a great many aquarium favourites into new genera. A guide to which name is now which.
Whaddaya mean, too hot?
Many aquarium fishes are held at temperatures they would never meet in nature. Rüdiger Rautenberg on how following the rules on heating may be costing you money.
Botiid fishes of the 'Modesta complex' – an analysis of natural history and behaviorisms
Mike Ophir on the loaches of the 'Modesta complex' — long treated as the community tank's cleaning crew, and still poorly served by what is known of their care.
Breeding Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki - the dwarf chain loach
Mark Duffill, a self-confessed loachaholic of thirty years, on keeping and finally breeding the dwarf chain loach.
The Desert Fish Habitat Partnership
Freshwater conservation is set to become one of the most pressing environmental problems of the coming decades. A look at one partnership working on it in the American desert.