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Fishes / Habitat
Bettas in the wild live in shallow, slow moving rice paddies and roadside ditches across Thailand, choked with vegetation and almost no current. A bare tank with plastic plants is a poor imitation of
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Fishes / Habitat
The yoyo loach gets its playful common name from the dark markings along its silvery body, which in young fish can resemble the letters Y and O repeated along the flank, though the pattern becomes mor
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Fishes / Habitat
The upside-down catfish genuinely spends much of its time swimming belly-up, a striking and unusual behaviour among aquarium fish that is not a sign of illness but a normal, deliberate adaptation. It
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Fishes / Habitat
The freshwater butterflyfish has a flattened, upward-facing mouth and broad, wing-like pectoral fins that give it its name, spending nearly all its time motionless at the water's surface waiting to am
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Fishes / Habitat
The cherry barb, Puntius titteya, stands in useful contrast to its more boisterous barb relatives, being one of the calmest, least nippy barbs in the hobby. Males develop a deep cherry-red body colour
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Fishes / Habitat
The pearl gourami carries a fine, lace-like pattern of white spots across a silvery brown body, giving it an appearance somewhere between mother-of-pearl and frost. A dark horizontal stripe runs from
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