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Fishes / Habitat
Freshwater fishkeeping is where almost every aquarist in India begins, and for good reason. It costs less to set up than a marine tank, the equipment is easier to find at a local pet shop, and species
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Fishes / Health
Fish lice, properly called Argulus, are unusual among aquarium parasites in being large enough to see clearly with the naked eye, flat, roughly circular, and often visibly moving across a fish's body
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Fishes / Habitat
The drip method is the slower, more thorough cousin of the floating bag technique, and most experienced marine hobbyists consider it the safer option, particularly for salinity sensitive fish, inverte
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Fishes / Habitat
The lyretail killifish carries a warm orange to red body with a distinctively forked, lyre-shaped tail, especially pronounced in mature males, and comes from coastal Gabon in West Africa. It stays sma
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Fishes / Getting Started
Sooner or later, most saltwater aquarists find a small, translucent anemone with wispy tentacles has appeared on a rock, seemingly overnight. That is Aiptasia, and it is one of the most persistent pes
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Fishes / Habitat
The swordtail, Xiphophorus hellerii, gets its name from the sword-like extension on the lower edge of the male's tail fin, a feature absent in females. Native to Mexico and Central America, it is a cl
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