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Fishes / Getting Started
A tank looks deceptively light on the shop floor, empty and easy to carry with a friend. Filled, it becomes one of the heaviest single objects most people ever place in their home. Water alone weighs
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Fishes / Getting Started
Despite the name, red slime algae is not actually an algae at all. It is cyanobacteria, a photosynthetic bacteria that forms a slimy mat over sand, rock and equipment, usually in shades of deep red or
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Fishes / Getting Started
Adding new fish to a tank that already has an established community is not simply a matter of releasing them in and hoping for the best. Done carelessly, it risks introducing disease, triggering terri
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Fishes / Getting Started
Every saltwater aquarist ends up fighting some form of nuisance algae at some point. Rather than treating each outbreak as a separate emergency, it helps to understand the handful of underlying princi
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Fishes / Getting Started
Reef aquariums, home to fish, corals and invertebrates together, are considerably less forgiving of water chemistry drift than a freshwater fish-only tank, and testing is where most reef keeping mista
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Fishes / Getting Started
Saltwater fishkeeping has a reputation for being unforgiving, and in some ways that reputation is earned. Marine fish are far less tolerant of swings in salinity, temperature, and ammonia than their f
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