Have a spacious aquarium with plenty of room and a high-capacity filter? Consider adding some large fish to your freshwater aquarium. A large aquarium typically starts at 200 gallons, but some of ...

If you're in the throes of setting up a home aquarium, you may be curious about the types of freshwater fish you can keep as a pet. Often the first fish that springs to mind is a goldfish, but there ...

Some of those fish you see swimming around the tanks at your local fish store are rarer than you might think. Freshwater biodiversity is highly threatened today – a fact that should be on the mind of ...

Freshwater aquarium fish include the most familiar, popular types of aquarium fish, such as guppies, black mollies, neon tetras and Siamese fighting fish, or Betta fish. Raising fish requires know-how ...

Many popular tropical freshwater aquarium fish originate in the world’s tropical rainforests. The Amazon Basin is a particularly rich source of fish — 5000 species are estimated to be swimming in its ...

Choosing between freshwater and marine aquariums involves considering maintenance, cost, fish variety, and tank size.

When saltwater fish long ago evolved to live in fresh water, many of them also evolved a more sophisticated hearing system, ...

A team of biologists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan and Western Philippines University (WPU) in the Philippines have found two new species of ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has granted endangered species status to a Tennessee freshwater fish. The Center for Biological Diversity said the nearly extinct Barrens topminnow was proposed for ...

Migratory freshwater fish are among the most threatened animals on the planet, a new report by a coalition of environmental organizations shows. The global assessment, described as the first of its ...

Emma Smart, a UAE-based PHD student and member of the Emirates Wildlife Society – WWF (EWS-WWF) team has discovered a new species of Arabian freshwater fish - Garra Smarti residing in Southern Oman.