Filter Types
When you start your discus aquarium, you can consider several different types of filters. You may even choose to use more than one at the same time to maximize water...
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Spawning Media
You will want to provide your breeding pair with a suitable spawning medium. This can be in your community tank, but you will most likely have more luck with a...
Choose Your Preferred Size of Fish
Discus Sizes The size of Discus fish can range, but are classified as a medium fish and are expected to be 6-10”. Because of their shape, they are as wide as...
All About the Amazon Sword Plant
The "Amazon Sword Plant," scientifically known as Echinodorus Amazonicus/Echinodorus Bleheri, is a hardy plant deriving from South America and grows up through Central America. Echinodorus are by nature marsh and...
How to breed the filet mignon of the aquatic world: the blackworm!
ive blackworms (Lumbriculus variegatus) are regarded as one of the best live food options on the market. They are easy to maintain, durable, and are appealing even to the pickiest...
Worm Infestations in Fish
As anyone who has tried to maintain a fresh or saltwater aquarium is certainly aware, fish in captivity are subject to a myriad of health problems. In addition to the...
Beginner FAQ: Practical Water Chemistry
What You Need to Know About Water Chemistry, and Why Water in nature is rarely pure in the ``distilled water'' sense; it contains dissolved salts, buffers, nutrients, etc., with exact concentrations...
An Introduction to Planted Aquariums
Discus fish can be kept in aquariums with plants or without. An aquarium without plants may be easier to maintain but it lacks aesthetic value among other great benefits that...
Transporting Live Fish
When it comes to keeping fish in an aquarium, movement from one point to another will eventually turn out to be inevitable. Whether it is moving the fish for a...
