Tropical Fish Tank Lover

What do you know about tropical fish, other than they look pretty? Below are some areas to consider before you make the leap to purchase these beautiful creatures.
Education
It is important to education yourself on everything before you purchase. It is especially important to educate yourself on living creatures that you have to care for. Without […]

Adding plants to a saltwater aquarium, is an fantabulous way to ameliorating the aesthetic of the tank, but it facilitates also having a better water quality and grants a more natural habitat to your fish. Here are some suggestions in order to help you in the selection of your plants. For your purchase, you can […]

The market of bottled water is huge: in the past decade, this market has more than doubled in the United States, surpassing milk, beer and juice, to become the second most popular beverage after soft drinks. Three in four Americans drink bottled water, and one in five drink only bottled water (despite the fact that […]

If you’re considering setting up a saltwater aquarium you have almost certainly heard that the tank needs to be conditioned or “cycled.” So what is the conditioning process and what does it really mean? Conditioning is basically process of building up of beneficial bacteria that will colonize your gravel bed. These bacteria […]

Choosing the right lighting for your aquarium is of paramount importance, if your aquarium is to be fully functional and exciting. To determine the right lighting for your aquarium you will have to consider the following:

What you are keeping in the aquarium
Its’ depth
The amount of heat the lighting will give out
Your personal tastes

One lamp will […]

Members of this family are known commonly as Firefish, Scorpionfish, Rockfish, Stonefish, or Lionfish (amongst others). They belong to the order Scorpaeniformes, which includes 35 families, 300 genera, and more than 1,000 species. They are important both in the marine aquarium trade and as food (those of us fish-eaters living on the west coast are […]

Over the last few years there has been much debate over color enhancers for tropical fish, whether they should be used at all and if they are safe, ethical or otherwise. It is the general consensus today that they are fine providing they are hormone free but what is a concern is that many […]

The Family Labridae is a massive family of fishes (trumped only by gobies). Some of these fishes, commonly known as wrasses, are amongst the perennial favorites in the marine aquarium industry. Chances are that if you remain involved with marine aquaria for any length of time, you will eventually come to own a wrasse. Here […]

The filter in a fish tank is its life. Without it the water will turn stale and the fish will die. Filters keep the water clean enabling the fish and plants to survive. The relatively new salt water fish tank filter used nowadays, have been the product of long research work that has designed advanced […]

There are at least six different families in the suborder Gobioidei with close to three hundred genera and over 2,000 species described to date. Most are tropical marine fish, live on the bottom and are very small (one of the world’s smallest fish, Trimmatom nanus, is from the family Gobiidae, although the smallest described species […]