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Fishes / Health
Dropsy is one of the more frightening things a fish keeper can see, and unfortunately one of the hardest to treat successfully. It is not a disease in its own right but a visible symptom, fluid buildi
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Fishes / Health
Brooklynella, often just called brook, is a disease with an outsized reputation among marine keepers for good reason: it can kill a healthy-looking clownfish within 24 to 48 hours of the first visible
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Fishes / Health
Ammonia poisoning is the most common cause of sudden fish loss in a new marine tank, and marine tanks are, somewhat counterintuitively, more dangerous on this front than freshwater tanks running the e
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Fishes / Health
Amoebae get far less attention in freshwater fishkeeping than ich, velvet or the common bacterial infections, and for good reason: genuine amoebic disease is considerably rarer in home aquariums than
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Fishes / Health
Koi are pond fish through and through, bred over centuries to be viewed from above in open water, and moving them indoors is a genuine departure from what the species is built for. That said, there ar
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Fishes / Health
Sometimes called beard algae by hobbyists because of its fine, hair like appearance, Bryopsis is often mistaken for ordinary green hair algae, and that mistake costs a lot of wasted effort, because th
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