What You Will Need A Plastic Container With a Top (Margarine Containers are Great for This). Pure Oatmeal Dry Yeast Microworm starter culture If you’re serious about breeding fish, then at some point you should consider starting a culture of microworms. These tiny worms are the perfect food for many species of newborn fry and their wiggling motion in the water … [Read more...] about How to Culture Microworms
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How Much and What to Feed Aquarium Fish
One of the first things that people nearly always ask me after they buy their first fish is “how much should I feed my fish?” Now you would think that this would be a simple question, but like so much else with fish, it can be more complex than it seems. Sure, if you don’t want to do it right, you can just throw a few flakes of fish food into an aquarium and hope for the … [Read more...] about How Much and What to Feed Aquarium Fish
How to Clean An Aquarium – Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Aquarium Clean
If you’re new to fish keeping, cleaning your aquarium can appear to be a daunting task. Where do you even begin, when you have to deal with water changes, algae, and numerous decorations that by now look like they’ve been submerged since Roman times? As you watch more and more poop build up in the aquarium, and a fuzzy layer of algae slowly creeps up the glass, you know that … [Read more...] about How to Clean An Aquarium – Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Aquarium Clean
Aquarium Cycling – The Complete Guide to Cycling a Fish Tank
Cycling an aquarium is the most important thing that you will ever do to ensure the long term health of your fish, yet few people who are starting out with new aquariums have ever heard of it. And the consequences of not cycling an aquarium can be dire, and often results in tank full of dead fish – which is usually followed by people giving up on keeping fish in … [Read more...] about Aquarium Cycling – The Complete Guide to Cycling a Fish Tank
Feeding Fry Fish – What to Feed Newly Hatched Fish
So now that you’ve finally managed to get your fish to breed, the hard part is over - right? Unfortunately it’s never that simple with fish, and now that the eggs have hatched, you not only have to provide them with nearly perfect water conditions - you also have to feed them. And feeding them isn’t going to be easy. Unless the fry are live bearer fish, their mouths will be … [Read more...] about Feeding Fry Fish – What to Feed Newly Hatched Fish