Keeping a salt water aquarium is becoming popular nowadays and more as more people have started to show interest in this hobby. Compared with a fresh water aquarium, a salt water aquarium is rather difficult to setup and manage.

It also involves higher cost as well since you will need to pay special care and attention. However, the reward is that the fish are more colorful and there are different varieties to choose from compared to its fresh water cousin. Read the rest of this entry »

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Here are 3 secrets to make your gold fish live long:1. Food: This is where most people make mistakes. Goldfish are very messy as they have no stomachs, so they produce massive amounts of ammonia, which is excreted in the water through the gills. Overfeeding directly increases the water pollution/toxicity. You can buy Goldfish food at any pet shop and it’s cheap. But the correct feeding is critical otherwise you can easily kill them by over feeding. They can go up to 3 weeks without food, so it’s enough to feed them about 5 small pellets every alternate day. Also, don’t feed bread as it expands on contact with water.

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Plesiotrygon iwamae is a freshwater stingray, commonly known as the Antenna Ray, they are the only member of the genus Pleisotrygon. They belong to the family Potamotrygonidae and to the class Elasmobranchii, which is what sharks belong to. They get to about 22 inches in length, this does not include the tail. Their distributionis the upper to lower Amazon River basin, from Ecuador to Belém, Brazil, in the Napo, Solimões, Amazonas and Pará rivers.

Antenna rays have smaller mouths than most other rays. Because of this, they feed on black worms, for tubifex worms. When young (under 10 inches) this species has trouble eating even the smallest night crawlers so blood worms would be better. Read the rest of this entry »