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Fishes / Getting Started
Some of the most sought after fish in the marine hobby are also the most dangerous to handle. Lionfish, scorpionfish, and pufferfish routinely top wishlists for their striking looks, but each carries
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Fishes / Nutrition
Travel plans and aquarium ownership create a predictable moment of anxiety: what happens to the tank while you are away. The reassuring answer is that most healthy marine fish are considerably tougher
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Fishes / Breeds
The red tail black shark carries a deep, velvety black body set off by a single vivid red or orange tail fin, a striking, minimal colour combination that has made it a long-time favourite in the aquar
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Fishes / Health
It sounds paradoxical: a water change, the single most recommended piece of routine aquarium maintenance, can under the wrong circumstances genuinely harm or kill fish. Understanding why turns this fr
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Fishes / Health
Hyposalinity means deliberately lowering the salinity of a treatment tank to a level that marine parasites like Cryptocaryon irritans (marine ich) cannot survive, while the fish itself, being far more
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Fishes / Habitat
The shubunkin is a single-tailed goldfish variety prized for its calico patterning, a mix of blue, black, red, orange and white over a mostly scaleless, nacreous body. It is closer in body shape and h
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