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Here’s a number that still irritates me: $1,247. That’s what my first “budget” 20-gallon aquarium actually cost after six months,

My first online fish order arrived in January 2022. Six cardinal tetras in a heat pack that had gone cold

In 2022, my first IAPLC entry ranked 847th out of roughly 2,100 submissions. Honestly? I was gutted. I’d spent four

My first dry start method attempt was in January 2023 on a 20-gallon long. I planted Hemianthus callitrichoides (HC Cuba) on ADA

I had just installed a new CO2 system, set it to the “recommended” 3 bubbles per second, and went to

You check the tank in the morning and see it, that glorious cluster of eggs tucked under the pleopods of

You never forget the panic of your first successful spawn. For me, it was a pair of Bettas in 2016.

I used to lose about 80% of my Corydoras eggs. It was infuriating. I’d see the spawning behavior, the classic