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Practical Fishkeeping brings you inspirational and informative articles from some of the top experts in fishkeeping.

Getting started in fish breeding

Have fish, will breed, right? If it was that easy, we’d all be doing it already. Nathan Hill looks at a few of the…

Mick's (Big) Fish

With around 45,000 Instagram followers, Mick Booth’s collection of big fish has attracted the eyes and the hearts of an…

Ol’ bluetooth

What’s your vote for the prettiest marine fish alive? Chris Sergeant suggests it might be a harlequin tuskfish. And he…

Lets bring nature back

As fishkeepers, have you ever wanted to give something back to the wild? Jeremy Gay explains that you can, and you can…

The Mucky Mouths

Occasionally, in the recesses of oddball fish stores, you might come across a square-looking, silvery-green or red-hued…

Make mine a Mexican!

We love a biotope here at PFK, so when we spotted David Nørholm’s spectacular firemouth set-up, we had to speak to the…

Little Dopplegangers

Bored of the same old options of shrimps or Badis for your nano set-up? Fear not, here’s a catfish that won’t take up…

Hooked on Tobacco

Looking for colourful marines that are neither too big nor too small? Check out Tobacco basslets...

The popular plecos

Do you have a favourite catfish? If not, then it’s high time you considered the small and charming Hypancistrus, writes…