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Fishes / Health
Guppies, mollies, platies and swordtails are livebearers, meaning fertilisation and development both happen inside the female's body, and she gives birth to fully formed, free-swimming fry rather than
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Fishes / Health
A fish that suddenly floats sideways, sinks to the bottom, or struggles to hold a normal position in the water is one of the more alarming things a keeper can witness, but swim bladder trouble is also
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Fishes / Health
Finding a lump on a goldfish is unsettling, and the word tumour understandably raises fears of cancer. The reassuring reality is that the great majority of goldfish tumours are benign, and many affect
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Fishes / Health
An open, reddened sore on a fish's body is one of the more concerning things a keeper can find, and rightly so, since ulcers are rarely a problem in isolation. Almost every ulcer traces back to a bact
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Fishes / Health
Vibriosis is one of the most common bacterial diseases in marine and brackish water fish, caused by several species of the genus Vibrio that live naturally in seawater. In small numbers they cause no
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Fishes / Health
Getting a fish's basic diet type right is one of the more consequential things a keeper can do, since feeding a strict carnivore mostly plant matter, or a herbivore mostly meat, causes real nutritiona
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