You know how sometimes you avoid buying something just because everyone keeps telling you it’s amazing? That was me with the Fluval FX4. Every aquarium forum, every YouTube channel, every…
God, where do I even start with carpeting plants? I mean, they look so simple in those Instagram posts – just this perfect green lawn stretching across the tank bottom…
Last weekend I watched my upstairs neighbor Carlos dump three gallons of bottled water into his brand new 29-gallon tank setup, and I literally had to stop myself from running…
You know, I still remember standing in that reef shop last Tuesday, watching some poor guy drop three hundred dollars on a single chunk of live rock covered in purple…
You know what made me stop dead in my tracks while grading papers next to my classroom aquarium last Tuesday? These microscopic white dots zipping around like they’d had too…
I’m standing in Petco last week, minding my own business while grabbing some filter media, when I overhear this conversation that made my eye twitch. This woman’s pointing at the…
So I’m standing in my local fish store last weekend, watching this guy buy a pair of electric blue rams, and the teenage employee goes, “Yeah, these are super easy,…
Okay, so I need to tell you about the time I completely wrote off an entire group of fish and then had to eat my words… along with learning a…
I almost walked right past the white cloud mountain minnows at my local Petco. They were crammed into this tiny corner tank with a hand-scrawled sign that just said “hardy…
My neighbor Sandra shows up at my door last week holding what used to be some kind of aquatic plant – honestly looked like green pasta that had been left…
I’ll admit it – I went a little overboard with aquascaping tools when I first got serious about planted tanks. My daughter was maybe three, constantly asking why I was…