Interzoo is the greatest pet and aquatic trade show on Earth. I’ve been to every one in Nurnberg, Germany since 2006 and got to watch the Champions League final there as well as narrowly missing […]
Author: Jeremy Gay
Author of three fishkeeping books and lifelong fishkeeper. Experience includes editor of Practical Fishkeeping magazine, editor of Pet Product Marketing magazine, multi award- winning livestock manager and aquatic store manager.
Alligator Gar found by Welsh canal
A two and a half foot Alligator gar has been found on a canal footpath in South Wales. The dead fish was found by dog walker Caroline Brown, who said she had never seen anything […]
D-D Coral viewing glasses are so cool!
It’s the little things in life that make me smile, and these coral viewing sunglasses from D-D made me and a load of other people really happy that they exist. I believe the style of […]
Storm Ciara damages aquatic store
Clearly Aquatics in Bangor, Northern Ireland had a wood delivery of a different kind last week. Storm Ciara blew some neighbouring fir trees over onto the roof of the award-winning store, with one branch piercing […]
Red blue Peru
Two years ago I got to keep one of my bucket list Characins – Hyphessobrycon sp.”Red/blue Peru”, now properly described and named Hyphessobrycon margitae. But why did it make my bucket list, and who is […]
New Panaque subspecies causes controversy
The Watermelon pleco L330 has a new scientific name. “I’m happy to announce the description of Panaque nigrolineatus laurafabianae, a new distinctly coloured subspecies of wood-eating loricariid from the Guaviare River basin of Colombia.” Said […]
ITC’s Coral Thrive is Zooplankton, Phyto, Spirulina and bacteria in one
ITC Aquatics has launched a new marine dry food called Coral Thrive. Aimed at hard corals, soft corals and filter feeders, the food ranges in particle size and is made up of freeze-dried Krill, Copepods, […]
New EcoTech Radion G5 – what we know so far
The nation’s marine retailers are tight-lipped about EcoTech’s latest LED light launch and for good reason. They’re under an involuntary embargo until Monday the 24th of February. But Jake Adams at Reefbuilders is under no […]
Koi to make Pavilion debut at Chelsea Flower Show
Japanese Koi carp will be on display in a show garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Tim Waddington of Quality Nishikigoi broke the news today on Facebook that he was building the pond […]
Jewellery box
Scarlet coloured, and moderate in size and temperament, the Jewel cichlids of the genus Hemichromis make perennial aquarium favourites. They’re cheap, easy to feed, easy to keep and easy to breed, and their all-round hardiness […]