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Fishes / Habitat
The leopard danio carries a striking pattern of dark spots over a golden body, quite different from the horizontal stripes of its close relative the zebra danio. For years it was thought to be a separ
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Fishes / Habitat
Setting up a marine tank for the first time can feel like a much bigger undertaking than a freshwater setup, mostly because there genuinely are more moving parts to get right. Breaking it down into a
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Fishes / Health
Most of what is written online about koi and winter assumes a climate with genuine freezing temperatures, ice covered ponds, and fish going dormant for months at a time. For the great majority of Indi
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Fishes / Habitat
Sponge filters rarely win any beauty contest, an unglamorous block of foam sitting in the corner of a tank, but they solve a specific problem better than almost any other filter type on the market: ke
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Fishes / Habitat
Bettas have a reputation for being an easy, low maintenance fish, largely thanks to years of being sold in tiny cups and bowls, but a healthy betta actually needs a proper, considered setup, and the g
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Fishes / Getting Started
A sand bed left undisturbed slowly accumulates detritus and can develop patches of nuisance algae or hydrogen sulphide pockets underneath. Sand sifting fish solve this the natural way, spending their
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