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Walk through the dwarf shrimp section at any aquarium store and the Neocaridina shrimp colors will run from a $2 patchy red Cherry to a…

Cherry shrimp care looks effortless on the pet store sticker: drop a few in any planted tank, ignore them, watch them multiply. But the most…

Walk into any aquarium store and you'll see at least three or four different types of nerite snails on offer, all priced about the same,…

Mystery snail care looks deceptively simple at the pet store: drop one in any freshwater tank, feed leftovers, watch it cruise the glass. But the…

If you've stumbled into the world of medaka varieties expecting a tidy list of ten color options, you're about to get blindsided: there are over…

You're doing your morning check on the medaka tub and you notice something strange hanging off one of the females. A tiny grape-like cluster of…

A medaka pond is one of the most rewarding low-cost projects in the freshwater hobby: a 16- to 53-gallon (60–200 L) outdoor container, a handful…

The first time I saw a school of Japanese rice fish gliding across the surface of a planted 10-gallon tank, I had the same reaction…

I spent three months trying to lower the pH in my apistogramma tank before I figured out I'd been doing it completely wrong. I'd drop…

Amano shrimp care is what you research the first time hair algae takes over a planted tank and nothing you've tried has worked: less light,…