Tropical Fish Expert: Choosing and Keeping Tropical Fish

You've found the ultimate UK resource for tropical fish enthusiasts, where expert advice meets passionate fishkeeping! From setting up your first aquarium to mastering reef systems, we provide everything you need to create thriving underwater worlds with freshwater favourites, stunning saltwater species, vibrant plants and fascinating invertebrates. Our comprehensive guides, feeding tips, case studies and expert Q&A make fishkeeping successful and enjoyable for beginners and seasoned aquarists alike. Tropical Fish Expert is here to help.

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Dealing with Bullying Between Fish

You’ve finally got your tank set up, the temperature right, the plants thriving and the water filled with a variety of fishy inhabitants – and you’re a...

A Guide to Keeping Rays

With their distinctive body shape and fascinating habits rays are intriguing animals, and many aquarists dream of owning them. However, they cannot be recomm...

One of the very best signs of a healthy aquarium is fish which are ready to breed. It is many aquarists' dream to successfully breed fish at home. Though fis...

Flake Fish Food

Getting the right balance of nutrients for your fish is naturally very important and fish can vary quite a bit in their requirements. Often the easiest optio...

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Tropical Fish With Eating Problems

One of the most distressing things that can happen to an aquarist is when fish simply stop eating and die. Sometimes it's a sign of disease but on other occa...

If you have a problem with over-growth of algae in your tropical marine aquarium, there are few better solutions than getting in a sea urchin or two. Althoug...

Caring for Snappers

Large and assertive fish with big appetites, snappers can be quite a challenge to keep in the aquarium. Some species, like black beauties and Mangrove Jacks,...

Elephantnose Fish

If you're looking for a really unusual fish for your tropical freshwater aquarium, Peters' elephantnose fish are second to none. Their fascinating appearance...

Flowering Aquarium Plants

Beautiful plants give the tropical aquarium that little something extra, really helping to show off your fish, but better still are plants with flowers. Alth...

LED Lighting for the Aquarium

Offering greater flexibility, easier to maintain, and needing less power, LED (light emitting diode) lighting is increasingly popular across a range of techn...

Artificial Plants in Aquaria

Are you tired of the constant battle to keep your aquarium looking good when your fish eat all your plants? Artificial plants can look better than you might...

Keeping Shrimp in the Aquarium

Keeping shrimp in your aquarium is a whole new experience, very different from fishkeeping. Although the basic rules for creating a good environment are simi...

Create an Ethical Aquarium

Aquarium keeping is a simple, enjoyable hobby that can provide lots of opportunities to learn about the natural world. Unfortunately, not every company invol...

If the idea of fish in space sounds out of this world, it is! There have in fact been more fish in space than there have humans, and they have been instrumen...

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