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

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…

Behold Black Rubies!

Occasionally it does us good to step back and look at ‘traditional’ fish with fresh eyes. Gabor Horvath thinks that the…

The clinging catfish

Fancy setting up a flowing tank for more than just South American suckermouths? Oh my, have I got the project for you…