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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Euthanizing Fish
By Patchin Curtis (extracted from a PVAS forum thread) After enjoying Sherry's delightful presentation on ways to kill goldfish (very...
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Using Alum to Control Snails
By Frank Cowherd (extracted from a PVAS forum thread) One way to treat plants that have insects, hydra or snails that you do not want is...
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Using Fenbendazole to Control Hydra
By Frank Cowherd (extracted from a PVAS forum thread) The easiest way to get rid of hydra is with fenbendazole. Go to a Tractor Store and...
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Use of ProForm-C to Control Parasites
By Patchin Curtis (extracted from a PVAS forum thread) Barbie Fiorentino gave a fascinating talk on Loricariidae in which she described...
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DIY Repashy Gel Food Holder
By Jim Chitty (extracted from a PVAS forum thread) Thought I would pass along this little item I made to hold Repashy gel foods in my...
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Maintain An Ice-Free Hole In The Ice On Your Pond
By Frank Cowherd (extracted from a PVAS forum thread) So it is never too late to put a hole in the ice on your pond. We came back from...
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Quick, Effective (and Ugly) Tank Brace
By Don Kinyon (extracted from a PVAS forum thread) After water changes were done last week, I was feeding the fish and heard a load...
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Egg Scatterer Breeding Baskets
By Patchin Curtis (extracted from a PVAS forum thread) Wanting to breed Purple Emperor Tetras (Inpaichthys kerri) in a more intensive...
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Chesapeake Bay Quiz
by George White The magnificent Chesapeake Bay stretching for a length of 193 miles between Maryland and Virginia ranks as one of...
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Corydoras in Paradise
by Gene Moy I’ve been fortunate to have a job that sends me to different parts of the country and the world. Over the years, I have...
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The Colors of Corydoras
by Don Kinyon There are a few "new" imports of Corydoras catfish coming in from South America lately that some Cory cat nuts, such as...
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Beef Tips
by Tom Biery I first read fish food recipes that included beef heart and liver about 20 years ago. Several years ago I decided to try...
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Summer on a Jungle River (Part 2)
by Alex Townsend, PVAS The Spider and the Wasp This probably sounds like the title of a fable or parable, but it’s actually a description...
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Natural Aquatic Environments
by George White Now is a fine time to plan your yard and garden. Taking care of the yard can be one of life’s biggest pleasures — if you...
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The Native Tank
by Tom Pallas The natural water systems of Virginia and Maryland offer an abundance of water life suitable for the aquarium I have...
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Book Review: The Conscientious Marine Aquarist
by Andrew Blumhagen The Conscientious Marine Aquarist By Robert Fenner Microcosm Ltd. ISBN 1-890087-02-5 Has this ever happened to you?...
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