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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, [...]

Having a pond in your backyard is a great addtion in your home. This require a big quantity of work. You need to care, maintain and ensure the quality of the water. Koi fish depend on the quality of the water. The water being stable is essential. Koi pond fish living in your water actually [...]

Nothing is more important to the health of your freshwater aquarium fish than to maintain a clean aquarium. A clean acquarium will guarantee your fish and plants to live healthy and longer lives. To keep your fish healthy you should adopt a regular maintenance cycle. Try to keep a regular schedule of maintenenace, the way [...]

Now you have installed and stocked your fish tank aquarium you can sit back to enjoy your new pastime. Aquarium care is not hard but a few problems sometimes happen, especially in new fish tanks. It all looks perfectly OK initially then gradually algae begins to grow and take over the fish tank, your [...]

You must create the proper habitat for koi before buying them. This is where information from your pond builder and supplier will come in handy. However, you should not rely on the opinions of just one person. It may be a god idea to do research on your own, before you go to purchase the [...]

As a new Koi pond owner, you may be overwhelmed with the amount of supplies needed to properly maintain your fish Koi pond. While the importance of the majority of these items cannot be denied, the feeling of being overwhelmed by the amount needed should be disregarded. Simply knowing the function of each item can [...]

Blue-green algae isn’t technically an algae in the proper sense of the word – it’s actually a form of bacteria, called cyanobacteria, which is a type of bacteria capable of photosynthesis.
Cyanobacteria is one of the oldest organisms known in the world, and is estimatedt to have been around for at least three.five billion years!
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Prior to an aquarium set up, the details and the conditions about fish rearing and maintenance should be well studied as even small careless acts may lead to the reduction of the quality of the fish on sale. Things may get out of hand in case of spread of epidemic diseases among the fish if [...]

In raising your Koi fish, there's always a need for you to have the important filtration system for your Koi pond. The Koi is known for its sensitivity to the water quality compared to some of the other fishes, that's why you really need to consider when it comes to having a filter in your [...]

In taking care of your Koi, you need to take the necessary precautions when faced with those storms, both small and large scales. No matter where you live, you’d be bound to come into contact with at least one extreme weather condition throughout the year.
We have all seen the destruction bought about by Hurricane [...]