Practical Fishkeeping Magazine November 2021 Edizione posteriore

WAIT, WHERE on Earth did the summer go? I blinked and I missed it, and what’s worse is that I also missed all of the good things that go with an aquarist’s sunny season — ponds and koi!

This whole year has been a hangover from the lockdown era of 2020, and I’m only just fi nding myself able to get back out on the road right now. As such, I’m especially jealous — but delighted — when I read the works of contributors like Tai Strietman (p54), Michel Keijman (p14) and Chris Sergeant (p6), recounting their face-to-face interactions with fi sh in the wild. Lockdown hasn’t stopped aquarists from being expressive, either, as evidenced by the prodigious creative streak shown by relative aquascaping newcomer Jordan Stirrat (p46). Perhaps my motto for the last year should have been ‘if you can’t beat them, join them, and if you can’t join them, read about them instead!’ It’s certainly worked okay for me...