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Manual Snail Removal: The Only Method That Actually Saves Your Ecosystem

You hear it before you see it. That faint crunch when you move a piece of driftwood. Then you turn on the […]

I bought my first clown knife fish in March 2018 from a local shop that had it labeled as a

I still remember the morning in 2018 when I woke up to my 55-gallon community tank looking like someone had

I bought my first kuhli loaches in March 2019. Three of them, because the pet store guy said they’d be

I killed twelve otocinclus before I figured out what was going wrong. All within three weeks of bringing them home.

I used to treat my planted tank like a lawn. Every Saturday morning, I’d grab my scissors and mow everything

I bought my first bristlenose pleco in 2009 because a pet store employee told me it would “eat all the

You know the feeling. You glance at your driftwood or filter outlet and see it, that dark, fuzzy tuft that

I killed seven mystery snails in my first year of fishkeeping. Seven. The frustrating part? My fish were thriving. Parameters

I still remember the sound. It was a high-pitched skrrrt that cut through the hum of my canister filter. I pulled the

I used to be terrified of the bucket. Early in the hobby, I treated aquarium water like it was holy