Fishkeeping Advice
Fishkeeping advice answering all of your questions on keeping cold water, tropical, marine, freshwater and salt water fish.
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Are these materials safe to use?
A reader asks advice on the best and safest way to create depth in his aquascape.
Will this cabinet take the weight of my tank?
A reader finds a leak in his tank and asks if its best to buy a dedicated aquarium stand.
What’s safe to keep with minnows and shrimp?
What fish are good to add to a tank that won’t prey on shrimp or minnows? Bob Mehen advises…
Will copepods work as holiday food?
Are copepods enough to keep fish going for a week whilst on holiday? A reader asks…
Why is my office tank giving me problems?
When a bunch of dissimilar species all die at once, you can usually assume it’s environmental rather than disease. As…
Why is this loach bothering my rainbows?
Botiid loaches can be a little exuberant , or in some cases downright aggressive. Bob Mehen explains…
Why all this sudden aggression?
One of our readers has noticed that one of his male rams has started chasing the all the other fish in his tank, Max…
Which hard-water cichlids can I keep?
Jeremy Gay advises a reader on which cichlids would be best to stock in his 120cm tank… I am setting up a 120cm tank…
What will eat my snails?
Assasin snails have been known to prey on freshwater shrimp, especially if they start to drastically reduce the number…