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I'm preparing a series of lessons on basic fish husbandry, particularly since several of my students have asked about taking home and keeping some of the surviving baby platies. My intention is not to go into much detail about SW aquariums, but just to explain the basic differences between SW...

Fishkeeping is wonderful, joyful, and exciting. But sometimes it's exhausting and unexpected. Have you ever gotten a fish you weren't prepared for? An aquarium? Gotten in over your head (so to speak?) I was always overly conscientious, researched extensively, and talked a lot with people...

In brief: I am not new to fishkeeping, but it has been 15 years. In the past month I unexpectedly became a full-time homeroom teacher and in the process inherited a relatively new (2 months?) established fish tank populated with some species I have never had before. Thank heavens it wasn't a...

I currently have at least 26 platy fry unexpectedly swimming in my bathroom. And if that isn't a cry for help, I don't know what is! Three weeks ago I "inherited" an aquarium with two pregnant platy females. They had recently given birth, based on the fact that the aquarium also contained two...

Hello Everyone! 15 years ago I was an avid Aquamaniac. (If any of you have been in the fishkeeping community that long, you may remember said website.) I had two cycled aquariums and two (or three - it's been a while) uncycled aquariums. I had bettas, corydoras, tetras, snails, and many...