Let me tell you about the Halloween tank disaster of 2019. Picture this: I’d spent three weeks crafting what I thought was a masterpiece—a “haunted shipwreck” theme with this gorgeous custom-built resin pirate ship (food-safe, of course), strategically placed purple and orange LED spotlights, and some carefully selected…

Designing an underwater forest is made simpler by knowing how to multi­ply a single plant into multiple plants. After years, and a lot of mistakes in my aquascaping journey, I have recently viewed propagation as a chore, but also a form of moving meditation. Watching a small cutting…