Corydoras Atropersonatus: The “Fairy Corydoras”
By Don Kinyon Corydoras atropersonatus has been around the hobby for a long time, but never seemed to be common in pet stores or even in...
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Dream Blue Velvet Shrimp
The first (successful) try at raising shrimp of a fish-only hobbyist By Don Kinyon First off, let me say that the miniature shrimp coming...
Creating A Living Will For Your Fish
By Raychel Upright As aquarists, we spend considerable amounts of time with our fish and inverts. Many of us have special bonds with...
Laetacara Araguaiae: Breeding the “Purple Smiler”
By Don Kinyon This hobbyist has always had a weakness for the Laetacara species, probably because Aequidens curviceps (now Laetacara...
Corydoras CW114: A Color Variety of C. sipaliwini
By Don Kinyon An attractive Corydoras from the rivers of Suriname and Guyana, CW114 has been proven to be a color variety of Corydoras...
Simple And Cheap DIY Brine Shrimp Hatchery
By Jim Chitty Threw these pictures together rather quickly so please bear with me. This is the simple setup I have for hatching brine...
Aquarium Use of Potassium Permanganate
By Frank Cowherd, Michael Barber, and Ben Chou (extracted from PVAS forum thread) You can buy KMnO4 = potassium permanganate at a lot of...
DIY Fluidized Sand Bed (Biological Filter)
By Jim Chitty I ran across a Youtube video on the DIY Fishkeepers (Joey) and remembered I had a commercial version of one of these about...
Nannastomus Mortenthaleri -- the “Coral Red” Pencil Fish
By Don Kinyon A very colorful small characin from the Rio Nanay basin in Peru, the “coral red pencil fish” or Nannostomus mortenthaleri...
Boraras Urophthalmoides -- the “Exclamation Point Rasbora”
By Don Kinyon A tiny jewel from Thailand Kottelat 1991 It’s always a good rule to know a new fish’s needs before you decide to take it...