Aquarium Fish
Featured Aquarium: 15 Gallon Freshwater Planted Tank
Even in this day and age of exorbitantly colored, ridiculously expensive, inordinately rare corals with over-the-top names like Reverse Radioactive Green Monkey Nipple zooanthids, there's still not much that compares to a school of neons swimming amongst a lush aquatic meadow.
Breeder's Net: Rearing the Golden Damselfish, Amblyglyphidodon aureus, A Promising Candidate for Aquaculture
Four separate spawns were collected, eggs were hatched, and larvae were reared with a success rate approaching 100%, using rotifers as a first food. These preliminary successes in rearing A. aureus suggest that members of this genus may be good candidates for commercial aquaculture.
Aquarium Fish: Conspicillatus Angel
This is not the an easy member of the genus because they are sensitive. Because of it price and rarity, make sure that the fish started to feed before you get it.
Online Courses: Fish Husbandry Being Offered by Marine Aquarist Courses
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Aquarium Fish: Large Angels in the Home Aquarium, Part II
With a little thought, a little planning and a desire to provide the animals in your care with research, there is no reason why you can't keep one of these beauties healthy for 15+ years in your living room!
Breeder's Net : Amazing Artemia!
I have found it possible (actually very easy) to have a continuous culture of brine shrimp.
Hot Tips: Have you ever attempted to breed any of your livestock? If so what and how?
This month, our readers give tips on breeding livestock.
Aquarium Fish: Large Angels in the Home Aquarium, Part 1
The information in this article is by large the result of my 22+ years of experience observing these animals in my own tanks, as well as tracking the results obtained by other hobbyists during that time.
Hot Tips: Have you ever attempted to breed any of your livestock? If so what and how?
This month, our readers give tips on breeding livestock.
Feature Article: Chronic Anorexia in Aquarium Fishes
Don't fall into the trap of assuming the fish will begin feeding when it gets hungry enough, or conclude it must be eating something, just not when you are watching.
Feature Article: Toxins, Venoms and Inhibitory Chemicals in Marine Organisms
Competition and the requirement to kill prey quickly means that venoms in marine species are far more powerful than similar venoms in terrestrial organisms.
Aquarium Fish: Reefkeeping Idol: The family Zanclidae
Moorish Idols are very difficult to maintain long term in the home aquarium.
Aquarium Fish: Triggerfish
Triggerfish are highly resilient animals, and for the most part they ship well and feed from the time they are collected to the time they make it into your home aquarium.
Aquarium Fish: Applications for Hyposalinity Therapy: The Benefits of Salinity Manipulation for Marine Fish
Hyposalinity can be employed in better acclimating recently transported fish, for quarantine, treating wounds, with antibiotics, getting fish to begin eating, conserving metabolic energy, improving growth and alleviating the effects of stress.
Aquarium Fish: Smell You Later: Olfaction in Aquarium Fishes
Mark discusses the inner workings of a fish's sense of smell.
Aquarium Fish: Captive Observations of the Mimic Octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus
This amazing animal is a frequent subject of nature shows and underwater photographers for its remarkable ability to mimic other aquatic creatures in order to avoid predation.
