Highly invasive and destructive freshwater mussels are threatening to make their way to the Pacific Northwest through decorative aquarium moss balls. Earlier this month, a wholesale aquarium ...

Light: Most freshwater ... your shrimp. Filter: Filtration needs to be adequate enough to provide consistantly good water quality for inverts — though not so powerful as to suck them in by accident! A ...

Probably the most common type of filter media is the foam or sponge pad. Because these are designed to trap out solid, particulate waste from the water, it stands to reason that they will become ...

You can buy a kit including one pump and hose on Amazon or at any aquarium shop ... Exchange the filter medium with new charcoal and sponges. They work decently in purifying the freshwater in your ...

Dr. Michelle Kelly of NIWA and Dr. Paco Cárdenas of Uppsala University, have just published a paper describing an amazing sponge which was found on a NIWA cruise to the Colville Ridge, north-east of ...

We don’t have to go to an alien world for this. We just have to look deep into our oceans. We have featured glass sponges before (e.g. CotW 40 or 112), all of them delicate and fragile and all of ...