Across forums, care sheets, and videos, Pea Puffers are almost always fed the same small handful of foods. Bloodworms, brine shrimp, and daphnia have become the standard fare. They are easy to find, easy to store, and widely recommended. Yet they represent only a narrow fraction of what these fish would eat in the wild. In nature, Pea Puffers spend their days weaving through dense vegetation and leaf litter, hunting for anything that moves. Worms, crustaceans, insect larvae,

Ask any aquarist what matters most in their water, and you’ll likely hear the same list: pH, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. These are the familiar parameters for aquarium water, the ones we test, track, and talk about endlessly. But lurking quietly in the background is another parameter that shapes everything in the aquarium, a factor so fundamental that it affects every breath, heartbeat, and cell function your fish perform. That hidden force is water hardness. Many aquarist

Pufferfish are best known as quirky marine oddities, famous for their ability to inflate into a ball when threatened. The majority of...

The Leiodon cutcutia is one of the most remarkable yet underappreciated puffers in the aquarium world. Endemic to South and Southeast Asia, it ranges across India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and the Mekong basin, where it thrives in a diverse array of habitats, from shaded rivers and floodplains to canals, ponds, and estuarine waters.