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Fishes / Habitat
The white cloud mountain minnow carries a slim, silvery body with a metallic gold-green stripe and a red-tipped tail, often nicknamed the poor man's neon tetra for its similar look and considerably ea
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Fishes / Health
Velvet disease earns its name from the fine, dusty coating it leaves across a fish's body, somewhere between gold and rust in colour, that genuinely does look like the fish has been dipped in velvet p
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Fishes / Health
Temperature is one of the simplest things to get right for a betta, and also one of the most consequential. Get it wrong even by a few degrees, sustained over time, and nearly every other part of bett
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Fishes / Getting Started
One of the more surprising facts in marine fishkeeping is just how long a well cared for fish can live. Clownfish kept for fifteen, twenty, even thirty years are not urban legend, they are documented
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Fishes / Behaviour
Species like tetras, danios, rasboras and barbs are frequently sold as single fish or in small pairs, which misses the point of what these fish actually need to display natural, healthy behaviour.
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Fishes / Habitat
Temperature is one of the few water parameters a fish cannot escape or adjust to on its own, since fish are cold blooded and their entire metabolism, from digestion to immune response, runs at whateve
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