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 THINGS YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS ISSUE

Welcome

Bugging out • With a wealth of aquatic insects out there in the world, it’s amazing we don’t keep more in our tanks. Make bugs your summer project for 2023.

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FIRST AID: BUG BITES

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Are you really a fish? • When fish climb out of water and breathe air, we really do need to wonder just how similar we are. Josh Pickett looks at our many crossovers with the lungfish.

The Xingu flows • Feel like your life is at a standstill? Why not do what Lee Harrison did and bring a little more flow into your home? Gabor Horvath meets the man with a little slice of river.

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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SNAKEHEADS • Snakeheads are up there as some of the most fun 'pet' fish you can keep. Unfortunately, many people still get things wrong for what are ultimately quite easy fish to care for.

ONE FOR THE BEGINNER?

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

Facilitating the facilities • Who supplies educational institutions with the equipment needed to train future aquarists? James Dale is one such person, and we were lucky enough to be invited along to see his work.

Reasons to get anthrax • It's not rare for an appealing fish to have an unappealing name, and this is no exception. Chris Wilson reveals a love affair for a bottom dwelling oddity.

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Put a TENGAH in your TANK • An egg-laying acidophile halfbeak in a genus of livebearers? Tickle me surprised. Alex Bell explains.

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Those flaming prawns… • Sometimes the prettiest fish take the longest to find. Here's a tiny marine beauty that's guaranteed to turn your head… assuming it doesn't hide from you first.

The loving embrace • That clownfish and anemones go together like a horse and carriage is common knowledge. But what about the many other beasts that call these stinging blobs home?

GEAR TRIED & TESTED

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NATHAN HILL • The industry has changed so much, so why are some stores still living like it’s 1999? In this fish eat fish world, progress is everything.