Practical Fishkeeping is the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

's best-selling aquarium

Aquarium

An aquarium is a vivarium consisting of at least one transparent side in which water-dwelling plants or animals are kept. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, marine mammals, turtles, and aquatic plants...

 magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

. It is published every four weeks by Bauer

Bauer Verlagsgruppe

The Bauer Media Group is a large German publishing company based in Hamburg, which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately-owned and under management by the Bauer family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated to HBV...

. The title covers the entire aquatic market from tropical freshwater

Freshwater

Fresh water is naturally occurring water on the Earth's surface in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers and streams, and underground as groundwater in aquifers and underground streams. Fresh water is generally characterized by having low concentrations of dissolved salts and...

 and tropical marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 fishkeeping

Fishkeeping

Fishkeeping is a popular hobby concerned with keeping fish in a home aquarium or garden pond. There is also a fishkeeping industry, as a branch of agriculture.-Types of fishkeeping systems:...

 throughout the year to small amounts of pond

Pond

A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is usually smaller than a lake. A wide variety of man-made bodies of water are classified as ponds, including water gardens, water features and koi ponds; all designed for aesthetic ornamentation as landscape or architectural...

 and coldwater fish

Coldwater fish

Coldwater fish, in the context of aquariums, refers to fish species that prefer cooler water temperatures than tropical fish, typically below . Some examples are koi and goldfish...

 coverage during the summer months.

Originally called Pet Fish Monthly, the title launched in April 1966. The title changed its name to Practical Fishkeeping during the early 1980s. The magazine is edited by Jeremy Gay. Regular contributing authors include Dr Heok Hee Ng. Former editors of the title include Steve Windsor, Karen Youngs, Matt Clarke and Nick Fletcher

Nick Fletcher

Nicholas "Nick" Fletcher is a Welsh film editor of animation best known as for editing the 1998 American film The Prince of Egypt by Dreamworks. He joined DreamWorks in 1995 as Supervising Editor on animated features The Prince of Egypt and Shark Tale. He most recently worked as editor on the Bee...

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Practical Fishkeeping also has a very successful and popular web forum with over 20,000 members and still growing. The Forum expands even further on the printed magazine and the online articles that can be found on the main site.

PFK Website Hacked

The site was hacked in early December 2009, allegedly exposing 20,000-25,000 usernames, password, email, postal addresses and phone numbers to the perpetrator(s).

• The website was relaunched with an entirely new interface on 2 February 2010.