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Fishes / Getting Started
If your newly set up saltwater tank has developed a dusty brown coating on the glass, sand and rock, take a breath. This is one of the most predictable and least worrying stages a marine aquarium goes
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Fishes / Getting Started
Starfish have a way of looking deceptively low maintenance. They move slowly, ask for little visible attention, and add real visual interest to a tank. The reality is more demanding. Starfish are amon
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Fishes / Habitat
The lemon tetra, Hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis, carries a pale lemon-yellow wash across its body and fins, most vivid along the front edge of the dorsal and anal fins, paired with a striking red upper
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Fishes / Behaviour
One of the most common and costly mistakes new aquarium owners make in India is treating tank placement as an afterthought, something to sort out after the tank is already home. Water is heavy, and a
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Fishes / Breeds
Snails do not get anywhere near the attention that fish and coral get in most Indian reef keeping circles, yet a well chosen mix of snails is often the single biggest factor separating a tank that sta
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Fishes / Habitat
The pea puffer is one of the smallest pufferfish in the world, rarely exceeding two and a half centimetres, and is a genuine Indian native, found only in the slow, densely vegetated rivers and wetland
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