Take Care Of Your Goldfish

Goldfish Quick Care Facts: Environment: Non-Tropical 20 °C – 22 °C (68 °F – 72 °F) pH: 6.5-8.25 KH: 70 to 120ppm Diet: Omnivorous Breeding: Egg-layer The budding fish enthusiast usually starts with a goldfish. Such fish are colorful, relatively easy to care for,...

Caring For Your False Clownfish

False Clownfish Quick Care Facts: Environment: Tropical 75 – 81°F (24 — 27°C) pH: 8 to 8.4 KH: 8.0-11.0 Diet: Omnivorous Breeding: Egg layers The common clownfish, otherwise known as the false clownfish, the false percula clownfish,  anemonefish, and the...

The Lionfish Care Guide

Lionfish Quick Care Facts: Environment: Tropical 72-82°F (22-28°C) pH: 8.1 to 8.4 KH: 1.020 – 1.025 Diet: Carnivorous Breeding: Egg layers Lionfish are some of the most impressive aquarium fish around, growing up to 15 inches in length. They also...

Guide To Keeping Betta Fish

Betta Quick Care Facts Environment: Warm Tropical (77-86°) pH: 6.0 to 7.8 KH: 1.0 to 2.0 Diet: Primarily carnivorous but can eat some vegetables Breeding: Egg layers Home Aquarium Environment for Betta Betta, or Siamese fighting fish are freshwater creatures...

Caring For Your Discus

Discus Quick Care Facts: Environment: Tropical 80 – 86°F (27 – 30°C) pH: 7.0 KH: 8.0 Diet: Omnivorous Breeding: Egg layers Discus are a breed of fish from the cichlid genus. They are native to the Amazon River basin and...

Ready For Fish

Ready for Fish Or so I thought Editors Note: This post was updated 04/16/2012 and added a picture of the author’s own 10 gallon tank instead of the stock picture that was there. Whether I was actually ready for fish...

It’s a small, small world

It’s a small, small world Or so the song goes, but for my fish tank, it’s gonna be a small world.   “How small?”, you might ask. A 2 gallon fish bowl.  Maybe 2.5 if I fill it all the way...

Fish Breeding: My Ultimate Goal

Fish Breeding: My Ultimate Goal Something I’ve wanted to do for a long, long time is to get into fish breeding.  Well fish, invertebrate, and the favorite invertebrate: corals. Why fish breeding? Although there is the possibility of making a...

So what’s going on here?

What a crazy couple of years. I went back to school, got a divorce (not related to school), set this blog and a few others on autopilot. I don’t like autopilot for this blog. School is…er…somewhat done. And I’m taking...