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Fishes / Habitat
Bred in Japan from Chinese lionhead stock, the ranchu is often called the king of goldfish among serious fancy goldfish keepers. It shares the lionhead's dorsal-fin-less, egg-shaped body and raspberry
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Fishes / Breeds
Anyone setting up a reef tank eventually runs into the term reef safe. It sounds like a guarantee, but it is closer to a probability rating. No fish comes with a signed contract promising it will neve
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Fishes / Habitat
The molly, Poecilia sphenops, is a chunkier livebearer native to Central America, popular across India in its black, silver and dalmatian-spotted forms. Adults reach ten to twelve centimetres, conside
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Fishes / Habitat
The zebra loach carries neat, narrow vertical stripes over a yellow-green body, staying smaller and more compact than several other Botia loaches, rarely exceeding ten centimetres. It is endemic to a
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Fishes / Habitat
An aquarium that looks effortless has almost always had a quiet, consistent maintenance routine behind it. The good news is that routine care does not need to be complicated or time consuming. It need
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Fishes / Breeds
Unlike hermit crabs, true crabs are born with their own hard shell and never need to borrow one. This single difference changes how they behave in a reef tank. True crabs tend to be more specialised i
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