Help Guides

Building your pond to the right depth is very important. Providing adequate room is essential for the health of your fish, plants, and even attracting wildlife. In this guide we will cover how deep your pond needs to be for different uses, and where to situate your pump throughout the year.

Knowing the volume of your pond is critical to stocking with fish, adding filtration, and treating the water, so how do we work it out?

Cleaning a garden pond is essential for keeping your water clear and maintaining a healthy environment for fish and wildlife. Leaves, algae, and organic debris build up over time in the water, and if left unchecked can reduce oxygen levels and encourage the excessive growth of algae.

We often divide freshwater fish into two types – tropical and coldwater, but what defines a tropical fish, and what temperature is tropical?

Planted tanks can be some of the most beautiful aquariums, and live aquatic plants can benefit fish too. Is CO2 essential for a planted tank?

GH is an abbreviation for General Hardness, and it’s a reference to how hard or soft your water is, so how do we lower GH?

Need to change your aquarium filter but worrying about crashing your cycle? Read our useful guide on how to do it without losing precious beneficial bacteria.

Black beard algae (BBA) is a horrible, tenacious algae which is unsightly and hard to get rid of. It typically grows on the edges of the leaves of slow-growing plants.

The pH of freshwater varies around the world, and most fish have adapted to live and breed in a narrow band of pH values, so how do we increase it?