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I recently had to clean out the filter in the nursery tank full of shrimp. When I opened it up, I found about a dozen tiny baby shrimp actually living in the filter. Shrimp are pretty resilient little animals and they seemed to be doing just fine in there, but I'm not sure how long they would last...

While I don't have a saltwater fish tank, I still have a favorite saltwater fish. The Mandarin Goby is one of the most beautiful and colorful fish in the ocean. They are painted with all the colors of the rainbow in intricate designs throughout their bodies. They are very popular aquarium fish. They...

Fish can be very hard to care for at times. There are many diseases that fish can contract which will put your whole ecosystem in jeopardy. That's exactly what happened to my 55 gallon fish tank. One of my fish was apparently sick when I brought it home, but I really couldn't tell for a while...

Cherry shrimp are highly sought after for their brilliant red coloration, as well as their excellent cleaning abilities. The high demand makes them quite hard to get and rather expensive. I was happy enough to find that the pet store had a couple of these beautiful shrimps. When I looked very closely...

Fancy-tailed guppies usually come in a few fairly basic color groups, the most common of which are predominantly green, blue, or red. There are certain patterns and traits that are typical among each color group, so when you breed guppies of different colors, you might end up mixing both colors and patterns...

One thing I love about guppies is how easy and fun they are to breed. Guppies breed year round, and need no special treatment to reproduce. You pretty much just have to put a male and female together and they will have babies. The only real challenge is to separate the female when she gets close to giving...

First, gather the materials you will need for your tank. Once these are all together you're ready to set up your aquarium. Before you do anything, put the background on your tank. It will be much harder to do once you have the tank in place, so get it out of the way first. Now set up the stand and...

I have had a flourishing 55 gallon aquarium for months now and a couple of the fish have been having babies. I needed another tank to put them in so they wouldn't be eaten by all the other fish, so I set out to get a smaller 10 gallon aquarium. Aside from the tank itself, you need a lot of other...

Of all the aquarium fish I have had, I think guppies are still my favorites. They are easy to care for and make very good beginner fish. They come in a staggering variety of shapes and colors. In my opinion they are some of the most beautiful freshwater aquarium fish. Common guppies are tiny and usually...

I just picked up a new male Beta fish last weekend. He is the same deep royal purple as the female I have been keeping in a vase for the past couple months. I heard this is an extremely rare color for this species and it may be worth trying to breed them. I have to agree as I have only seen those two...