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Fishes / Habitat
Slime algae, most often seen as a red or blue-green film spreading across substrate and rocks, is one of the more frustrating growths an aquarist can face, mainly because it is not actually algae at a
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Fishes / Health
Walk into any Indian aquarium shop and the filter aisle can be genuinely confusing, sponge filters, hang on back units, canister filters, all claiming to be the right choice. Rather than explaining wh
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Fishes / Health
Few pets suffer from as persistent a myth as the goldfish. The idea that they live two or three years in a bowl before an inevitable, unremarkable death is deeply entrenched, and it is simply wrong. P
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Fishes / Getting Started
A full clean matters, but it is the smaller, weekly habits that actually keep a tank healthy between those bigger sessions. Most beginner problems, cloudy water, algae outbreaks, sick fish, trace back
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Fishes / Habitat
The guppy, Poecilia reticulata, is probably the first fish most Indians ever kept. Originally from streams in Trinidad, Venezuela and parts of Brazil, it has been bred in India for decades, so much so
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Fishes / Nutrition
Carp pox looks alarming the first time a keeper spots it, smooth, waxy, candle-wax-like growths spreading across a koi's skin and fins, but it is genuinely one of the more benign viral conditions a ko
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