Everyone assumes an outdoor pond means koi, goldfish, or nothing. If you want something different, whether for smaller ponds, natural mosquito control, or just variety, there are more options than most people realize. The trick is matching the fish to your climate,...
Aiptasia are the reef pest that turns one small brown anemone into a plague. They arrive as hitchhikers on live rock or coral frags, reproduce explosively, and sting nearby corals with potent stinging cells. The single biggest mistake keepers make is trying to tear or...
This is one of the most common questions I get from people setting up a planted tank, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on what you want the shrimp to do. Amano shrimp and cherry shrimp are both excellent, but they solve different problems. One is a...
You built a pond so you could actually see your fish, and instead you are staring at a bowl of pea soup. Green water is one of the most common complaints in the hobby, and the good news is that it is almost always fixable once you understand what is really happening....
Of all the nuisance outbreaks a reef keeper can face, dinoflagellates are among the most frustrating. They look like brown, stringy snot laced with trapped oxygen bubbles, they can appear and vanish on a daily cycle, and the usual instinct to scrub everything clean...
