Practical Fishkeeping
Amazing fish and how to keep them

  • New handbook for coral reef managers
    Bad management is not just something that affects our working environment but is something that is affecting the world’s reefs too, experts revealed today.

  • The world’s largest privately owned jellyfish tank
    An enormous 4,000 l. jellyfish display tank has been installed at a restaurant in Manchester's Trafford Centre.

  • New study into evolution of mimicry in octopuses
    Some octopuses deceive predators by mimicking flatfish and how this mimicry has evolved has been examined in a paper published in the most recent issue of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

  • Fish to help keep Commonwealth Games fever-free
    Authorities in New Delhi have turned to fish to help combat dengue fever in the city on the eve of the 19th Commonwealth Games.

  • Noisy oceans may lead fish astray
    Human-generated noise may have dangerous consequences for young fish, according to researchers working on the Great Barrier Reef.

  • Naked Scientists dive into Naked Ocean podcasts
    A new series of podcasts was launched recently, that aims to investigate various topics related to ocean conservation and bring the science involved into the public conscience.

  • Thames 'piranha' not a piranha shocker
    The 'killer piranha' caught in the Thames by an angler this week has been misidentified Practical Fishkeeping can reveal.

  • Kamikaze carp KOs kayaker
    Competitive canoeist Brad Pennington was amongst the favourites for the 'Missouri River 340' race but little did he realise that just below the rivers surface lurked 15kg of muscular fish poised to make a dramatic intervention to his day.

  • Whale sharks store sperm
    Whale sharks are right at the other end of the spectrum compared to guppies when it comes to size, but they may share at least one similarity, according to research published in the latest issue of the journal Endangered Species Research.

  • New tetra named Moenkhausia mikai
    Brazilian scientists have described a new species of Moenkhausia tetra from the Amazon and Orinoco river drainages in a recent issue of the journal Zootaxa.