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Fishes / Health
Dropsy is one of the more frightening things a fish keeper can see, and unfortunately one of the hardest to treat successfully. It is not a disease in its own right but a visible symptom, fluid buildi
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Fishes / Health
Brooklynella, often just called brook, is a disease with an outsized reputation among marine keepers for good reason: it can kill a healthy-looking clownfish within 24 to 48 hours of the first visible
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Fishes / Health
Ammonia poisoning is the most common cause of sudden fish loss in a new marine tank, and marine tanks are, somewhat counterintuitively, more dangerous on this front than freshwater tanks running the e
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Fishes / Behaviour
Popeye, known medically as exophthalmia, is one of the more visually alarming things a keeper can spot in a tank, one or both of a fish's eyes bulging outward from the socket, sometimes dramatically.
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Fishes / Getting Started
Of all the nuisance growths a saltwater aquarium can develop, dinoflagellates, usually just called dinos, are the ones that trip up even experienced hobbyists, because the usual algae playbook of cutt
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Fishes / Habitat
The glass catfish has a genuinely transparent body, with its skeleton and internal organs visible through the skin, leaving only the head and organs as solid, visible structures against an otherwise s
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