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Fishes / Health
Betta constipation is common, usually straightforward to resolve, and worth catching early, since left unaddressed it can progress toward more serious swim bladder trouble. The good news is that most
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Fishes / Health
Flashing, when a fish suddenly darts and scrapes its body against rock, substrate or the glass, is a fish's way of trying to relieve an itch it cannot reach with a fin. It's a symptom rather than a di
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Fishes / Health
Hole-in-the-head disease, also called head and lateral line erosion (HLLE), produces small pits and lesions around a fish's head, eyes and along its lateral line. It's disfiguring rather than usually
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Fishes / Health
A fish that suddenly can't hold its position in the water column, floating nose-up, sinking tail-first, or drifting sideways, is showing a swim bladder problem. In marine fish this has a genuinely dif
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Fishes / Health
A betta refusing food is alarming, but it is also one of the more common questions new keepers ask, and the good news is that most cases have a clear, fixable cause. Understanding roughly how long a h
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Fishes / Health
Hermit crabs, whether blue leg, scarlet reef or electric blue varieties, are reef tank staples valued for their clean-up work, and losing a leg is one of the more alarming things a keeper can see happ
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