Stunted growth means stunted lives
The first of a series supporting BIAZA's Big Fish Campaign, on why aquarium fishes are treated as disposable and why, in some cases, size really does matter.
Results for “grow out”
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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.
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.
How to take care of a Siamese Fighting fish - Betta splendens
What a Betta splendens actually needs — tank size, heating, lighting and the rest of the equipment, with the reasoning behind each.
All the leaves are brown...
Colin Dunlop on dried leaf litter in the aquarium, a practice he took up after asking a dealer about a single brown leaf lying in one of their tanks.
Badis singenensis, the most unique badid gets a name – or does it?
Stefan van der Voort on a new Indo-Burmese badid and whether its name will stand — printed here in the original text, after a magazine altered it without asking.
Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider 1801
Colin Dunlop on the dwarf among snakeheads. At around 10 cm, Channa orientalis asks far less of a tank than the metre-long relatives that give the genus its reputation.
FFSG has global mission
Freshwater habitats hold 0.3% of the world's water and almost half of its known fish species. The Freshwater Fish Specialist Group on what it intends to do about that.
For Peat’s Sake...
Matt Ford argues the hobby should stop using peat — a valuable, non-renewable resource whose extraction is visible from orbit.
Pupfish form evolutionary 'mountain ranges'
Barely kept and difficult to maintain, the pupfishes of the genus Cyprinodon are of outsized interest to evolutionary biologists. Their isolated desert waters are the reason.
The HMF - What's That?
Rüdiger Rautenberg on the Hamburger Mattenfilter — cheap, widely loved by German breeders, and barely known outside mainland Europe.
Three new loaches of the genus Cobitis Linnaeus, 1758
Thomas Frank on three Cobitis loaches that reached the hobby under the wrong name, and the work of establishing what they actually were.