Practical Fishkeeping

Practical Fishkeeping is Britain's best-selling fishkeeping publication, filled with species showcases, fishkeeping answers, advice, competitions, amazing features and much more!

5 THINGS YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS ISSUE

Welcome

Community TANKS

THE FERAL FISH OF TWO COUNTRIES • What happens when invasive fishes take over? Gabor Horvath talks about his unexpected encounters with random species from all over the world.

Noble Knight or FIENDISHLY FRAIL • Hannah Taylor explores the dichotomy of the Ctenops Nobilis

Hard water? Hard Luck? Hardly….. • There are plenty more fish in the sea – or should we say hard water conditions? – than you may have realised, and Tom Ackrill is taking us beyond the common options.

The magic of schooling fish • Radek talks us through the benefits of schooling fish.

Fishkeeping Answers • Got a fishkeeping question? PFK’s crack team of aquatics experts are on hand to answer whatever you need to know…

LIKE THIS? TRY THIS?

Beautiful or broken? • Love them or hate them, Ruth McDonald explores why hybrid fish are such a complex issue.

Mountain Gold • Tai Strietman has a surprise encounter with a catfish on the side of a mountain

A tale of two rare Cichlids • More insight into two rarely seen cichlids, Coptodon rheophila and Sarotherodon caudimarginatus from Guinea.

WHAT LIES BENEATH • Chris Sergeant takes a closer look at just a few of the different species that can be found living under the surface.

READERS' POLL 2024 • Vote for your favourite store in our Readers’ Poll – and you could win a superb Fluval U2 Underwater Filter!

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Tailpiece ALEX BELL • An introduction to the newest member of the Practical Fishkeeping team.