Archive Year Five

Volume 5 Number 1, Spring 2008

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Conscientious Aquarist has been away for a little while, but behind the scenes we’ve been discussing how to move the magazine forward. We hope you approve of the changes we’ve done to make the magazine easier to read. Parental care in Clownfishes is well known, mouthing and fanning are the important behaviours apart from defending eggs from predators. They fan the egg mass using pectoral and caudal fins and thus provide necessary water movement to the densely packed clutch and thus help in faster removal of metabolic wastes.... Having a pond is a dream for a lot of people, a corner of aquatic wilderness at how where you can enjoy plants, fishes, frogs, birds—the whole amazing show of nature.... I am very fortunate to have such a great fish. Only another puffer owner can really appreciate the relationship that these fish can provide. There is something about their face that makes you feel they are studying you as you look at them.... The cichlids of Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika have become among the most popular of all the fishes in the aquarium hobby thanks to their brilliant colours and dazzling variety. While some are demanding fish best suited to advanced hobbyists, others are hardy enough to do well even when kept by relatively inexperienced or casual hobbyists.... The appropriate selection of freshwater livestock, both as species and individual specimens determines from the outset whether you will have a low/no trouble arrangement or ongoing troubles, perhaps even deaths. Utmost care should be exercised in “putting together your livestock assortment” — carefully make working lists of what you might have.... A Selection of questions and Answers from the WetWebMedia FAQ page's. If you fancy writing for Conscientious Aquarist, then read our instructions for authors. The aim of the magazine is to publish articles that explain and extend the hobby in a responsible, ethical manner. Click to download a PDF version here You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDF version, this can be downloaded here

Volume 5 Number 2, Summer 2008

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Conscientious Aquarist has been away for a little while, but behind the scenes we’ve been discussing how to move the magazine forward. We hope you approve of the changes we’ve done to make the magazine easier to read. Every year many new cichlid species arrive on the market, with cichlid enthusiasts willing to pay high prices to obtain a few specimens for their collections or breeding programmes. Sometimes the fabulous, astonishing, new Callochromis.... Although Lake Malawi is a little smaller than Lake Tanganyika, it is home to several times more cichlids species of cichlid, with current estimates putting the number of Malawian cichlids at around 650 species compared with around 200 for Lake Tanganyika.... Moray eels without a doubt are among those fish you’d call oddballs if they were from freshwater. Most specimens usually hide their long bodies in narrow gaps and holes all day, but if they leave them for food or explorative purposes..... I have just returned from the last International Marine Aquarium Conference and I thought it would be a good time to review the status of copepod products which are available to home hobbyists. Elasmobranches are fascinating creatures. They have stirred the interest of man for literally thousands of years, and are well documented for hundreds of years in cultural foods, paintings, dances, superstitions, reverence, folklore, fear, respect, and many other forms... A lot of newcomers to the hobby rely on advice from the guy in their “local fish shop”. They often report back that their LFS guy said that they could have this fish or that invertebrate, or that they needed to buy this gizmo or use that medication. Would you like to get pictures like these of your own pond? Record your pets’ markings for posterity? Or just visit their world?...   A Selection of questions and Answers from the WetWebMedia FAQ page's. If you fancy writing for Conscientious Aquarist, then read our instructions for authors. The aim of the magazine is to publish articles that explain and extend the hobby in a responsible, ethical manner.