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.

About Betta Fish The reasons behind the popularity of the Betta fish, also known as the Siamese Fighting Fish, are simple to take care of. Betta fish are not only beautiful and majestic fish, they're also the easiest to care of, hands down. The Betta is a highly aggressive fish and must live in solidarity. Male Bettas are far more vibrant and have much longer, flowing fins, compared to the female Betta. The...

The most exciting part about getting a freshwater aquarium is choosing the fish you want to put in your tank. When most people arrive in the fish section of a pet store (or better yet, when they walk into aquarium fish specialty store) they get pulled in every direction by all the beautiful fish. Unfortunately, tropical fish and goldfish aren't supposed to be mixed together, so you're going to have to choose...

School of Tropical Freshwater Fish Setting up your freshwater aquarium properly the first time will safe you a ton of hassle and wasted times cleaning up the pieces. Many people are so excited about getting fish in their aquarium, that they forget an essential step or rush the process and put their fish in an unstable environment. I can tell you from first hand experience, this is not the way to go. Patience...