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Fishes / Habitat
Freshwater fishkeeping is where almost every aquarist in India begins, and for good reason. It costs less to set up than a marine tank, the equipment is easier to find at a local pet shop, and species
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Fishes / Habitat
The drip method is the slower, more thorough cousin of the floating bag technique, and most experienced marine hobbyists consider it the safer option, particularly for salinity sensitive fish, inverte
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Fishes / Habitat
The lyretail killifish carries a warm orange to red body with a distinctively forked, lyre-shaped tail, especially pronounced in mature males, and comes from coastal Gabon in West Africa. It stays sma
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Fishes / Habitat
The swordtail, Xiphophorus hellerii, gets its name from the sword-like extension on the lower edge of the male's tail fin, a feature absent in females. Native to Mexico and Central America, it is a cl
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Fishes / Habitat
The Congo tetra, Phenacogrammus interruptus, stands apart from most popular tetras by hailing from the Congo River basin in Africa rather than South America. It is also considerably larger than the ne
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Fishes / Habitat
Cloudy water alarms new fishkeepers more than almost anything else, partly because it seems to appear overnight and partly because it is genuinely hard to tell, just by looking, whether it is dangerou
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