While tropical fish can be a wonderful hobby that many people enjoy, they also can be susceptible to diseases that if not caught early on can lead to early death of the fish and also risk of it spreading to other fish in the same habitat. Although there are literally hundreds of diseases that tropical [...]

Aquarium Plant growth is often measured as a change in aggregate area, length, volume, height, wet or dry weight. These approaches may not always be a satisfactory measure of growth at a particular stage of plant development, e.g., a germinating seed or tuber or bulb may show an overall reduction in dry weight due to [...]

How do aquarium plants grow? Some may find this a seemingly easy question. Often the best questions are deceptively simple. Growth of macrophytes is defined by the same definitions in terrestrial plants and algae: The progressive irreversible development of an organism (Taiz and Zeiger, 1998). Lambers, Chapin and Pons (1998) define growth as increment in [...]