Submitted by wetman on Sat, 07/09/2011 - 17:42
I'm the Skeptical Aquarist. I've been a beginner at keeping apartment-sized freshwater tropical fishes in planted aquaria for over fifty years.
Submitted by wetman on Wed, 10/15/2014 - 18:13
A. cf cirrhosus is the common Bushynose of aquariums that is "compared to" ("cf.") the species described by the French ichthyologist Achille Valenciennes in 1836.
Submitted by wetman on Sun, 03/23/2014 - 12:35
Modern aquarium-keeping was effectively created by the application of electricity to "natural" aquaria.
Submitted by wetman on Sun, 03/23/2014 - 12:21
The glass fish tank was a Victorian invention. Glass is essential to the concept of an aquarium: you look through it at the fishes and invertebrates, not gaze at them from above.
Submitted by wetman on Sun, 03/23/2014 - 12:15
Millennia before fishes were kept as objects of religious awe and tabu, or out of the sheer love of them, captive fishes were maintained as a method of storing reserves of protein.
Submitted by wetman on Wed, 01/22/2014 - 02:11
Ancistrus dolichopterus ("L 183" for years) is a small Loricariid catfish, a warm black, peppered with tiny off-white spots and with a bold edging of skim-milk blue on its dorsal and caudal fins.
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