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Fishes / Nutrition
Overfeeding is the most common mistake in the hobby, and it is rarely intentional. New keepers equate a hungry-looking fish with love, and most fish will beg for food regardless of how full they alrea
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Fishes / Nutrition
Maggots, fly larvae, have a long history as bait and occasional live food among freshwater anglers and fishkeepers, particularly in parts of the country where they are easy to source cheaply. Whether
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Fishes / Nutrition
Not all fish food is interchangeable, and matching food type to your fish's natural diet makes a genuine difference to colour, growth, and long-term health, far more than most beginners initially real
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Fishes / Nutrition
A meaningful share of commonly kept aquarium fish are herbivores or lean heavily plant-ward as omnivores, and feeding them well means understanding that a plant-based diet is not simply a lighter vers
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Fishes / Nutrition
The discus is a tall, laterally flattened, almost perfectly round cichlid from slow, sheltered waters of the Amazon basin, prized for the huge range of colours and patterns developed through generatio
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Fishes / Nutrition
Overfeeding is, by a wide margin, the most common mistake new fishkeepers make, and it comes from a good instinct in the wrong direction: watching a fish eagerly eat everything offered feels like good
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