YOUR EVERYDAY FIELD GUIDE
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Fishes / Getting Started
A thermometer is one of the cheapest pieces of aquarium equipment, and also one of the easiest to get wrong, since an inaccurate reading gives you false confidence right up until a heater malfunction
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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 / Habitat
The cherry barb, Puntius titteya, stands in useful contrast to its more boisterous barb relatives, being one of the calmest, least nippy barbs in the hobby. Males develop a deep cherry-red body colour
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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
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Fishes / Habitat
The pearl gourami carries a fine, lace-like pattern of white spots across a silvery brown body, giving it an appearance somewhere between mother-of-pearl and frost. A dark horizontal stripe runs from
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Fishes / Habitat
The oranda is instantly recognisable by its wen, a raspberry-like growth of fleshy tissue that covers the head and, in well-developed specimens, gives the fish a crowned appearance. It shares its egg-
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