Your filter is quite possibly the most important item you will ever buy for your aquarium. The filter you choose will greatly impact your water quality, and health of your fish. The most important guideline to keep in mind is that if you have a 20 gallon tank, you need at least a 20 gallon filter. If you have goldfish, you may even want to go higher. Power Filters These are by far the most common aquarium filters,...

Say you are going on vacation for a couple weeks (in a perfect world, right?) and you don't want to have the neighborhood kid in the house every day, let alone trust him. So how are you going to keep your freshwater fish sufficiently fed? Or you may simply want to cut back on the work involved with keeping your fish. There are 2 common solutions to this problem; automatic feeders and vacation feeders.

photo credit: Gao Hui This post is going to be similar to the Goldfish Facts post that got a lot of attention, largely because some things weren't all that accurate. To be honest, I pieced that article together on the fly. Feel free to criticize this article as well. That's one of the reasons the internet is so great. If we didn't have people correcting others, their would be even more false information out...