Tips on Aquarium Care and Cleaning

The proper care and cleaning of your aquarium is the most important, yet most overlooked aspect of owning an aquarium. By avoiding the care and maintenance of a fish tank, not only will it lose the visual appeal, but your fish will be unhealthy and unhappy. By following a daily, weekly and monthly care program, [...]

All about Care for an Acrylic Aquarium Kit

The practice of keeping aquariums came about in the late 1800’s.  They were fairly crude.  Usually these ancient aquariums only had one side that was made of glass, with the other three sides being made of metal or wood.  Most aquariums consisted of fish that were native to the region of its owner simply because [...]

Introduction To Marine Aquariums

Maintaining A Saltwater Aquarium The Easy Way

Its colourful and outstanding assortment of beautiful saltwater fish, makes a saltwater aquarium can be very captivating.You will naturally be wise to learn as much as you can about the ins and outs of Saltwater Aquarium Keeping Tips, as with any important project, If you would like to maintain [...]

Cherub Angelfish : A guide to keeping the most endearing of all dwarf angelfish, Centropyge Argi

Cherub Angelfish pair courting

The most endearing member of the genus Centropyge (Dwarf angelfish family). Centropyge argi is everything regular sized dwarf angelfish (flame angelfish, coral beauty angel etc) are, except in a really small package. They are sold in sizes ranging from an inch to 3 inches. At 3 inches, this angelfish is a [...]

Achilles Tang : A guide on keeping this rare and beautiful surgeonfish in the home aquaria

An Adult Achilles Tang

This beauty known as the Achilles tang (Acanthurus Achilles) pops up in the trade from time to time. Dark chocolate colors its entire body while a single orange teardrop is present on its spine. Its tail is a mix of chocolate, white and orange bands. Also known as the red-tail surgeonfish and [...]

Sohal Tang : Guide to keeping Acanthurus Sohal

The big boss and its domain.

The Sohal Tang (Acanthurus Sohal) is one of the most beautiful tangs in the family. It has black lines stretching across its white/cream body while its pectoral and tail fins are yellow.
It is also known as the majestic tang, arabian tang and the zebra tang.
They are collected from the Red [...]

Yellow Tang : A guide on the most popular surgeonfish in the marine aquarium hobby

Yellow Tang

The Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma Flavescens) is one of the most recognizable fishes in the marine aquarium industry along with the blue tang (Paracanthurus Hepatus), percula clownfish (percula, Ocellaris) and the flame angelfish (Centropyge Loriculus). It is also the most popular tang in the surgeonfish family and its very easy to see why. The entire [...]

Multicolor Angelfish : A guide on the deepwater dwarf angelfish Centropyge Multicolor

Centropyge Multicolor

The Multicolor angelfish (Centropyge Multicolor) is a deep water angel that live at depths from 50 to 200+ feet in the wild. So named because of the myriad of colors this fish has. Its body is white while its chest has a patch mixed with yellow, orange and red. Its tail is yellow [...]

Flame Angelfish Care

Flame angelfish pair

The most brilliantly colored of all the dwarf angelfish, the flame angelfish (Centropyge Loriculus) is the most popular and recognizable member of of the genus centroypge, ahead of even the coral beauty angel. Like the queen angelfish, almost everyone in the marine aquarium hobby has at one time either owned a flame angel [...]

Blue Tang Care

Blue tang

The Blue Tang (Paracanthurus Hepatus) enjoys the distinction of being one of the five most recognizable maine fishes along with the percula clownfish (Percula, Ocellaris), flame angelfish (Centropyge Loriculus), yellow tang (Zebrasoma Flavescens) and the royal gramma (Gramma Loreto). It remains the sole species under the genus Paracanthurus. Beautifully colored with an iridescent [...]