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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 / Getting Started
Tags: fish compatibility, marine tank stocking, aggressive saltwater fish, tank mates, aquarium planning
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Fishes / Habitat
The Chinese algae eater, Gyrinocheilus aymonieri, is a suckermouth fish sold widely as a small, active algae eater, but its behaviour changes significantly as it matures. It can grow to around twenty
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Fishes / Habitat
A sand bed left entirely undisturbed slowly accumulates waste and detritus that settles below the surface, and while occasional manual stirring helps, a living sand sifter working continuously does a
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Fishes / Behaviour
Most advice about where to put an aquarium is written from the human side of the glass, what looks good in the living room, what fits the wall. Marine fish experience that same placement from the othe
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Fishes / Habitat
Freshwater hobbyists debate real versus artificial plants. In a marine tank the equivalent question is a little different, since true aquatic plants are not really part of a saltwater display. The cho
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