Category: My Aquarium Obsession

I started with a vase and a lowly beta. Now there are two tanks with a third in the works

  • The clown loaches in the 6-gallon tank in my kitchen have no idea what’s coming. When I got them more than a year ago for my then-new Fluval Edge fish tank I did not know several things. I did not know that I would hate the fish tank for its ridiculous design. And I did…

  • At 7:04 a.m. on a Saturday morning, it is January dark. Coffee on, gratitude so-so. Flick on the fish tank light, bright light. It illuminates a veritable forest of plants with neon tetras darting about. This is why I have a tank. For these January mornings when the southerly sun lags in the sky and…