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Fishes / Getting Started
Lighting choice used to be one of the more complicated decisions in reef keeping, with metal halide, T5 fluorescent, and early LED fixtures each offering a different tradeoff between spectrum quality,
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Fishes / Habitat
The serpae tetra, Hyphessobrycon eques, is a deep blood-red fish with a distinctive black shoulder patch and black-edged fins, native to the Amazon and Paraguay river basins. It reaches around four ce
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Fishes / Habitat
The elephant nose fish is named for its long, trunk-like extension of the chin, which is not actually a nose but a highly sensitive electrical sensing organ. It comes from West and Central Africa and
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Fishes / Habitat
The Bolivian ram shares its cousin the German blue ram's dwarf cichlid charm, with a soft yellow-orange body and a distinctive black eye stripe, but is noticeably hardier and more forgiving in the aqu
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Fishes / Habitat
The Gardneri killifish carries a striking orange-red body scattered with iridescent blue-green spots and banding, particularly vivid in mature males, making it one of the most colourful small fish cov
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Fishes / Health
Getting a fish's basic diet type right is one of the more consequential things a keeper can do, since feeding a strict carnivore mostly plant matter, or a herbivore mostly meat, causes real nutritiona
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