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Fishes / Getting Started
A new fish that spends its first days or weeks hiding behind decor or in a corner is showing a completely normal stress response, but a fish that never settles into more confident, visible behaviour o
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Fishes / Habitat
The Congo tetra, Phenacogrammus interruptus, stands apart from most popular tetras by hailing from the Congo River basin in Africa rather than South America. It is also considerably larger than the ne
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Fishes / Habitat
Cloudy water alarms new fishkeepers more than almost anything else, partly because it seems to appear overnight and partly because it is genuinely hard to tell, just by looking, whether it is dangerou
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Fishes / Nutrition
Live food remains one of the best ways to condition fish for breeding, add genuine variety to their diet, and encourage natural hunting behaviour that dry food alone cannot replicate. Culturing your o
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Fishes / Habitat
The dwarf gourami is a small, colourful labyrinth fish, with the red-and-blue striped male being a familiar sight in Indian aquarium shops. It reaches around eight centimetres and is generally peacefu
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Fishes / Habitat
Goldfish have one of the worst reputations in the aquarium hobby for being kept in spaces far too small for them, and the fishbowl image most people grow up with is close to the opposite of what a gol
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