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Fishes / Habitat
Gravel vacuuming is one of those aquarium chores that gets recommended constantly and questioned just as often, particularly once a tank has matured and grown a healthy population of plants and benefi
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Fishes / Habitat
The white cloud mountain minnow carries a slim, silvery body with a metallic gold-green stripe and a red-tipped tail, often nicknamed the poor man's neon tetra for its similar look and considerably ea
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Fishes / Habitat
Temperature is one of the few water parameters a fish cannot escape or adjust to on its own, since fish are cold blooded and their entire metabolism, from digestion to immune response, runs at whateve
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Fishes / Habitat
The ember tetra, Hyphessobrycon amandae, is one of the smallest commonly kept tetras, rarely exceeding two centimetres, with a warm orange-red body that glows under the right lighting. It comes from a
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Fishes / Habitat
The rainbow shark, despite the cheerful name, carries a fairly plain grey-black body offset by vivid red or orange fins, with the name referring more to the fin colour than any rainbow pattern across
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Fishes / Habitat
This is one of the more debated questions among reef keepers, and the honest answer is that it depends on the type of sand bed in the tank. Vacuuming helps in some setups and actively undoes the inten
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