Author:  Celeste

Artist:  Stefan Psarakos (Splendidbetta)

by L. Van Der Laan

So you want to have a go at breeding your Betta splendens and aren’t quite sure how to go about it? It’s actually fairly straight forward and simple providing you do a little planning in advance.

Before I go into that however, I’d like to point out that there are as many differing ideas on how to breed your fish as there are hobbyists. This particular guide is intended to be a very basic introduction to breeding for those just starting out and is based on a very simple method that works for me. Read the rest of this entry »

by S. N. Nagendra of India Aquarticles

Quite often we tend to neglect the quality of water provided for fish in containment. Disasters with aquariums happen mainly because of poor water standards. For the better aquarists there are products commercially available to improve water conditions. But the majority of us end up buying either low grade stuff OR pay very high to get better products. But, here lies a simple way of enhancing your water parameters by using a leaf of the Great Indian Almond Tree. Read the rest of this entry »

by the Editors of FishLore.com Aquarticles

Equipment Needed:
- Breeder box or breeder net
- Breeding grass
- 5 or 10 gallon tank for the baby fish or a tank divider that you can use for your main tank.
- A pair - 1 female and 1 male Read the rest of this entry »

by Bill “Pegasus NZ” of New Zealand

Many of us.. not only here in New Zealand, but it seems throughout the world, are having problems with Guppies wasting away and developing bent spines along with other problems. This is more prevalent today that in earlier years… which leads me to believe it is not what we seem to believe. The scaremongers and those that could not define an explanation for this were soon to attach various names to the problem, including Guppy AIDS.. and Wasting Disease.

Like many, I don’t have a one-hundred percent qualified answer to this problem, and can only tell others about my own situation. Read the rest of this entry »

Contributed by the Calypso Fish & Aquaria Club, London, England “Although we are uncertain as to the exact source of this article it is to be credited to Anthony Evans, who was the original publisher (PetFish) and probably the author. It is over quarant years old but as applicable today as the day on which it was written.” Aquarticles.com

“An ounce of prevention” - how the old adage applies to the keeping of healthy stock for both professional and amateur today

Undoubtedly the best method of keeping the aquarium disease and trouble free is to avoid introducing troubles into it. An obvious remark, you might think, but the practical details involved in conforming to this rule are all too seldom observed sufficiently rigorously by fish-keepers. Read the rest of this entry »