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Fishes / Habitat
The glowlight tetra, Hemigrammus erythrozonus, carries a single bright orange-red stripe running the length of an otherwise translucent, silvery body, giving the impression of a thin glowing wire when
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Fishes / Habitat
Despite the name, the black neon tetra, Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi, is not a colour variant of the neon tetra but a distinct species from Brazil. It carries a bold black horizontal stripe with a t
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Fishes / Health
Fin rot is one of the most common ailments in the hobby, and also one of the more forgiving ones, provided it is caught before it progresses too far. It is a bacterial infection, most often involving
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Fishes / Health
Hole-in-the-head disease, sometimes called head and lateral line erosion, produces one of the more visually distressing symptoms in the aquarium hobby: small pits and lesions developing around a fish'
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Fishes / Health
Ammonia poisoning is one of the fastest, most dangerous things that can go wrong in an aquarium, and unlike many fish ailments, it is entirely preventable with basic tank management. Understanding why
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Fishes / Habitat
A tank that starts looking faintly tea coloured rather than crystal clear alarms a lot of new keepers, but yellow water is usually more of a cosmetic issue than a health emergency, and it is almost al
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