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Fishes / Breeds
Anyone setting up a reef tank eventually runs into the term reef safe. It sounds like a guarantee, but it is closer to a probability rating. No fish comes with a signed contract promising it will neve
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Fishes / Breeds
Unlike hermit crabs, true crabs are born with their own hard shell and never need to borrow one. This single difference changes how they behave in a reef tank. True crabs tend to be more specialised i
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Fishes / Breeds
Blennies belong to the family Blenniidae and bring genuine personality to a reef tank: blunt heads, bulging eyes, and in many species, feathery filaments called cirri sprouting above the eyes. Most bl
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Fishes / Breeds
SPS stands for Small Polyp Stony, and the name describes the corals well: tiny polyps, often no larger than a pinhead, spread across a hard branching, plating or encrusting skeleton. This is the least
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Fishes / Breeds
Hardiness and ease of care matter when choosing fish, but so does charm. Some saltwater fish earn their place in a tank purely on personality, the way they move, the expressions their faces seem to pu
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Fishes / Breeds
Giant clams, genus Tridacna, are large marine bivalves that host colourful zooxanthellae within their mantle tissue and depend on that relationship for most of their energy, in much the same way a pho
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