Success with plants!
Chris Jupp
A new aquarium is always an exciting project and having kept Tropical fish and Marine Aquariums for many years I needed something new to try. A planted aquarium was the obvious choice for me as something I had never really attempted seriously. The following details some of the considerations I made ...
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The Siamese Flying Fox
Paul Tapley
Crossocheilus siamensis
In all of the established literature, there is a fish consistently praised for it's effective ability to control many types of algae commonly found in the home aquarium - ...
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Journal of a planted aquarium
Chris Jupp
The following sequence of pictures shows how quickly an aquarium can be transformed when aquatic plants are kept under the right conditions.
The first picture shows the Red Sea flora base substrate in place as well as some carefully positioned driftwood and lava rocks. Careful consideration ...
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The Zebra Nerite snail
Chris Jupp
The striking black stripes make zebra nerite snails one of the most beautiful freshwater snails commonly available to aquarists. As well as being very decorative the Zebra nerite feeds almost exclusively on algae to the point where algae wafers may have to be fed to supplement the diminishing food s...
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