The Practical Fishkeeping Readers’ Poll returned for 2024, and now we can proudly reveal the stores that you voted as the top ...

A) NEALE MONKS REPLIES: Quite a lot of human food is perfectly safe to use when feeding your fish. White fish fillet is good, particularly Tilapia, cod and coley, but avoid oily fish as that tends to ...

Neale Monks offers some advice to a reader whose Kribensis keeps attacking her mate. Q. Four months ago I bought a pair of Kribensis, hoping to breed them. The fish in the shop tank were in pairs, but ...

Filling an empty glass box with water offers a surprising amount of excitement for the new aquarist, but it doesn’t compare to the enjoyment of adding your first few fish. As ever, there is planning ...

Dr Heok Hee Ng reminds us that although these are natural predators, a few snakehead species can become acceptable community fish. Any discussion of predatory oddball fish for the aquarium will ...

Look at the colouration of your typical fish and you'll see that it has a paler belly and a darker back. But why is that? This is called counter-shading and is an anti-predator adaptation. Most fish ...

Dr Ad Konings tracks Tropheus moorii and its relatives around Lake Tanganyika. As far as I know every rugged coast on Lake Tanganyika harbours a species of Tropheus, and at least four species there ...

For many, an aquarium full of lush plant growth is the pinnacle of freshwater fishkeeping. Emulating professional aquascapes can be very difficult and costly but beginner-friendly planted tanks can be ...

Easily distinguished from other glassfish, the Humphead has qualities but also attitude. Choose tankmates with care, warns Dr Neale Monks. Described as recently as 2003, the Humphead glassfish has ...

The beautiful Green phantom plec, often still labelled as L200 in the shops, could actually be any of at least three species, says Rupert Collins. Introduced in 1995, a new bright green loricariid ...

Researchers have found new fish fossils containing the oldest preserved muscles ever seen, and this fish had abs. Previously, it was thought the specialised stomach muscles were unique to land animals ...

Until recently, Horabagrus used to be hard to find in the shops. But, as Matt Clarke explains, in the past two years, two different species have suddenly hit the market. Origin: Found in swamps, boggy ...