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Fishes / Habitat
The pea puffer is one of the smallest pufferfish in the world, rarely exceeding two and a half centimetres, and is a genuine Indian native, found only in the slow, densely vegetated rivers and wetland
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Fishes / Habitat
The penguin tetra carries a bold black horizontal stripe along a silvery body, similar in colouring to several other tetras, but its most distinctive trait is behavioural rather than visual: it habitu
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Fishes / Habitat
The bristlenose pleco, genus Ancistrus, is a small, hardy armoured catfish named for the branching, whisker-like bristles that grow on the snout of mature males, giving them a distinctive, almost comi
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Fishes / Habitat
Undergravel filters were the standard in home aquariums for decades before hang on back and canister filters took over the market, and while they have fallen out of fashion, they still have a genuine,
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Fishes / Habitat
The figure eight puffer carries a yellow-green body marked with dark, looping patterns that resemble the number eight repeated across its back, a genuinely attractive and unusual pattern among aquariu
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Fishes / Habitat
The blood parrot cichlid is a man-made hybrid, not a naturally occurring species, created by crossing several different Central American cichlid species. Its most distinctive and controversial feature
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