The worst mistake you can make with your first salt water aquarium is to buy expensive, or difficult to maintain fish. You are already facing the new challenges of more carefully maintaining water temperature, nitrates, salt levels, and then adding the right coral, sand, and plants. By choosing easy to take care of tropical saltwater fish you can make your first attempt enjoyable, not a disaster.
Start off by talking to your provider of tropical saltwater fish and ask them which fish they recommend as the easiest to care …

The tropical puffer fish sparks our imagination and fills us with dreams of having something really special in our aquarium. Before you run out and buy your first puffer you need to be aware of the challenges you will be facing.
The first thought which goes through most people’s minds when they picture owning tropical puffer fish is all the fun of watching their fish inflate. They envision being able to show off the fish by giving it a little scare and watching it puff up like a balloon …

Have you ever visited the tropics and dropped your feet into the water? It is nice and warm, and rarely changes. Ocean water in an area does not vary greatly throughout a day, or even a week. Your tropical fish tank temperature needs to maintain the same kind of rock steady consistency.
As a good starting guideline your tropical fish tank temperature should stay within a range of 22 to 29 degrees Centigrade, 72 to 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Some species of tropical fish require much narrower …

How many trips to the pet supply center do you want to make when you are first setting up tropical fish tanks? You might be surprised how many times new owners run back and forth to the store to get items they have forgot.
Let us take a look at the essentials for setting up tropical fish tanks, and try to keep your trips to the pet store down to one.
One of the easiest ways to avoid all the extra trips is to buy an aquarium kit. It is …

What is the biggest difference you see in great looking aquariums and average looking aquariums? Tropical fish tank plants are what often make the difference. A beginner often buys a handful of the cute little plastic plants to decorate their tank, a serious hobbyist adds real plants, which enhance the beauty and health of their tank.
While you may think adding tropical fish tank plants is going to greatly increase your work load, you are completely wrong. They do add a bit of work to get them setup …

Those big aquariums look great in our homes and offices adding beauty, interest, and a calming piece of nature. The easiest to care for aquariums are freshwater. Choosing great freshwater tropical fish species will help make your aquarium a real conversation piece.
One of the keys to having a great looking aquarium is having a variety of color, body shapes, and levels of activity in your tropical fish species. Nothing is much more boring than an aquarium with fish just floating in place, all looking the same, staring …

Tropical fish mollies are another of the great families of tropical fish which are easy for new owners and easy on the wallet. Being easy on the wallet does not mean being boring.
The Molly family of tropical fish has great variety with over 30 separate species within the family. There are a few very common varieties of tropical fish mollies you may want to explore for adding to your aquarium.
Silver Molly – This is the sparkling jewel of the molly family. With a bright silver suit of …

Tropical fish are conditioned to love light. Their natural environment would have the brightness of a tropical sun during the day, and the deep darkness of night. Tropical fish lighting is required to help maintain your fish in their healthiest state, and to increase the brilliance of their color.
Older aquariums often came equipped with a single screw in bulb socket. These sockets were intended for having an aquarium light which was of the proper power, and provided the proper spectrum of light. The first problem which …

Starting off keeping tropical fish fills your mind with questions. What you are going to learn is the questions do not stop. In a few months you will see a fish which looks ill and have more questions. You need tropical fish information you can rely on.
The problem comes when you start looking online for your information. There are many great sites filled with high quality information about tropical fish, but there are an equal amount of really horribly written articles filled with substandard, and sometimes …

Tropical Fish Guppies are one of the most popular of all tropical fish. They are inexpensive, easy to care for, and have one trait which makes them ideal for new owners. The are prolific reproducers.
Guppies are livebearers which makes breeding much easier than dealing with an egg laying species. Livebearers do not lay eggs, they release live fry right into the water. Anyone who has owned guppies before can tell you your tank can go from being a few guppies to many guppies very fast.
There is …