By Paul Whitby When setting up a new tank we all have a very similar desire to create a living image of a reef, or other biotope that is best suited to the inhabitants we wish to keep. An image forms in our head of how we want this to look and then we begin to add...

By Paul Whitby In the first article of this three part series on aquascaping, I discussed some of the simple rules of thumb that can be applied to the design of the rock structure that will help you develop a natural looking vista. For the most part, these were based...

By Paul Whitby In the previous two installments of this series, I discussed some of the aesthetic principles that can help with the design of your aquascaping. Armed with these ideas and rules on composition, a picture can be built in our heads, or on paper, of how we...

By Paul Whitby More and more frequently these days I hear horror stories of tanks wiped out due to the inadvertent introduction of a pest that devastated the system. As I look closer at a lot of these killer incidents it appears that the pest in question is usually...

By Paul Whitby In the first installment of this series we discussed the eradication of two common pests, aiptasia and majano anemones (which can be read here). While these two pests do not really move around a tank a great deal, they do spread rather fast, which is...

By Paul Whitby If you have been following this series of articles you should now have a good handle on how to treat pest aiptasia, majanos, and those dreaded nudibranchs. All of these can be readily killed in or out of the tank. Those are the easy pests to deal with....

By Paul Whitby I'm a Wrasse-aholic... I know this, and maybe I need help? My friends have tried to tell me and have held interventions - I even tried rehab, but at the end of the day, I am always drawn back to those pencil shaped bodies that zip through the reef. It...