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

Unless you’ve accidentally locked yourself in the fridge, you’ll be unable to miss just how sweltering it is this summer, writes Nathan Hill. Here are a few ways to keep your fish happy over this ...

Tony Newsom-Virr, of PlantedTanks, responds to some frequently asked questions on growing bulb plants in the aquarium. What bulb plants are best for your tank?The choice is so wide it’s really a ...

Aquarium fish food specialist New Era Aquaculture has been taken over by World Feeds, a new company backed by investment from Finance Yorkshire. Established in 2005, Doncaster-based New Era ...

A 20-year-old who swallowed two live goldfish as part of a dare in the online drinking game Neknominate, before regurgitating them, has been fined £200. Jack Blowers, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, was ...

The giant Edible crab (Cancer pagurus), measuring 23cm/9" across its carapace and with claws the size of hands had been caught by a fisherman in Dartmouth and then transported to Weston-super-Mare in ...

A Shropshire Koi keeper has been left stunned by the theft of as many of 30 of her pet fish. Rachel Adams, from Maesbrook near Shrewsbury discovered the theft when she went to see if they needed ...

Nathan Hill plays with a real bruiser of a pump from EcoTech Marine. It’s been a while since I played with anything for big set-ups, so I tracked this down and now I’ve got nothing large enough to ...

Fishkeepers the world over struck gold with the introduction of the small colourful rock dwelling cichlids from East Africa’s Lake Malawi. The mbuna as they are known (pronounced mmm-boon-a or mu-boon ...

Many new hobbyists have problems keeping plants in their tanks because they've been sold non-aquatic ones. Jeremy Gay explains more. I can travel the length and breadth of the country and bet that ...

Nathan Hill creates a useful aquatic device for those who want a river biotope tank with a more natural flow. Here's how to do it... If we absorb the new documentaries and scientific papers we can ...

Salt has been scientifically proven to have a number of benefits. Matt Clarke scours the journals and speaks to industry experts for the latest on the subject. Many people are very anti-salt. Why is ...