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Fishes / Habitat
Anyone setting up a new tank eventually faces this choice, and there genuinely is no single right answer. The better question is which option suits your particular tank, your fish, and how much time y
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Fishes / Habitat
Deciding how many fish to add, and which species to combine, is where most new aquarists either get lucky or get it badly wrong. The old rule of one inch of fish per gallon of water still gets repeate
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Fishes / Habitat
Lighting is often treated as an afterthought once the tank, filter and heater are sorted, yet it shapes everything from how your fish's colours show to whether your plants thrive or slowly fade. A lit
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Fishes / Habitat
Saltwater fishkeeping has a reputation for being difficult, and that reputation is only partly deserved. The biology is less forgiving than a freshwater community tank, but the core discipline is the
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Fishes / Habitat
The Boesemani rainbowfish is one of the most striking freshwater fish in the hobby, with mature males showing a sharp split between a blue-grey front half and an orange-yellow rear half. It reaches ar
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Fishes / Habitat
Most new fishkeepers know to treat tap water before it goes anywhere near a fish, but far fewer understand exactly what they are treating it for, and that gap matters, because chlorine and chloramine
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