Walstad tanks were infamous before the publication of Diana Walstad’s book, Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A practical manual and scientific treatise. After its publication, aquarists from far and beyond started to embrace Walstad tanks…
Aquarist, who get into the hobby on a strict budget, are more likely to find more affordable ways of getting things. It is, therefore, no surprise that one might want to use your garden soil…
The buzz of fish keeping and aquariums brings many questions from setting up to maintenance and more. One of the questions I hear people ask around is whether they need gravel in their tanks? You…
The conventional or rather universally agreed-upon method of reducing nitrates is water change. In this blog alone, I recommend performing 10% to 15% water change biweekly to flush out extra nitrates. Then, why is this…
I have seen fishkeepers in aquariums ask about spikes in nitrites after water changes. At the time of writing this, none of the aquarium blogs addressed this issue or have concrete advice on what to…
Hunger in fish, in general, is a somewhat controversial subject. Everyone has an opinion on what should be or should not be. Now try adding the betta in that pan; you will have a field…
