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Fishes / Health
Anyone who has tried breeding certain fish for the first time quickly runs into a frustrating problem: newly hatched fry are often too small to eat even the tiniest commercial fry food, let alone baby
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Fishes / Health
Most advice in this series, understandably, focuses on spotting problems. It's worth stepping back and describing the opposite: what a healthy, well-run marine tank actually looks like day to day, sin
2 min read
Fishes / Health
Fish tuberculosis, more accurately called mycobacteriosis, is one of the more sobering diagnoses in the hobby: chronic, slow-moving, largely untreatable, and carrying a rare but genuine risk to the ke
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Fishes / Health
Columnaris, caused by the bacterium Flavobacterium columnare, is one of the more aggressive common bacterial infections in freshwater fishkeeping, and unlike many aquarium ailments, it can move from f
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Fishes / Health
Columnaris, caused by the bacterium Flavobacterium columnare, is a well-known and often serious disease in freshwater and koi keeping circles. Marine keepers researching this topic should know upfront
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Fishes / Health
Nitrite poisoning, commonly called brown blood disease, is one of the more dangerous water quality events in the aquarium, second only to ammonia poisoning in urgency, and it has a genuinely distincti
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