Practical Fishkeeping

Practical Fishkeeping is Britain's best-selling fishkeeping publication, filled with species showcases, fishkeeping answers, advice, competitions, amazing features and much more!

5 THINS YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS ISSUE

Welcome

THE ‘NOSFERATU’ TETRA • Some fish look like they come straight out of fiction. Oliver Lucanus reports on one of the weirdest looking characins of the Amazon.

The pretty pacifist • If ever there was a community friendly cichlid, it has to be the African butterfly. Gabor Horvath reintroduces a fish that deserves more attention.

THINKING BIOTOPE?

AFRICAN BUTTERFLY CICHLID

Tankmates

Uaru the gentlest giants • Why fill a big tank with violent fish when you can have one of the most peaceful cichlids ever? Liam Stanley highlights one of his favourite genera.

FACTFILE

CRAVING ACCURACY?

FACTFILE

What lies beneath? • Sightless fish might sound like a burden, but there's a species that thrives without its eyes. Heather Walford praises an oddball vintage.

FACTFILE

The Land of Smiles • While we like to keep our fish in tanks, other nations hold theirs in a different esteem. Alexander Addison recounts the importance of fish in Thailand.

Fishkeeping Answers • Got a fishkeeping question? PFK's crack team of aquatics experts are on hand to answer whatever you need to know… questions@practicalfishkeeping.co.uk

THE EXPERTS

Nasty surprises and how to avoid them • While experience isn't everything, experience is indeed valuable. Tim Smith recounts some of the things he's learnt to watch out for over the years.

A long story • They're the curious oddballs that stop us in our tracks when we see them. These are the spiny eels, and their lives are more interesting than you might initially think.

The best way to an anmone's heart.. • Misunderstood and jelly-like, all too many anemones die a slow death of neglect. Tim Smith wants to tell you how to avoid that.

WET OR DRY?

FIXING A MALNOURISHED ANEMONE

LEARNING ON THE JOB • Modern aquascapers can reach the hobby in many diff erent ways. George Farmer visits one ‘scaper who took a vocational route to her passions.

Plant list

TANK SPECIFICATIONS

Delicious Dolphins • Catfishes are a strange bunch. Meet the bold and thickset predators you never knew you needed…

FACTFILE

GO DEEPER

GEAR TRIED & TESTED • A closer look at some contemporary filtration.

Practical Fishkeeping • EDITORIAL

NATHAN HILL • Friendships are as good for the mind as they are for the soul. I'd almost forgotten how important it is to be in the company of likeminded fish geeks.