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 ...

Aquarium filters can be essential for both freshwater and marine tanks ... Some filters rely on a mechanical filter media such as a sponge to function in both a mechanical and a biological role. In ...

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 ...

Freshwater shrimps have never ... but this was in a densely planted aquarium where shrimp can hide easily but be rarely seen. This is a common problem with internal or external power filters, ...

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 ...