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The first of the daily podcasts, with news, info, and the usual rants when I get on to a favourite
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Can I return fish to the shop once they get too large?
What do you think the shop is going to do with them? The bulk of large fish are fast growing
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My male Guppys won’t stop chasing the females, what can I do?
Guppys may look stunning, but they’re the worst-behaved fish going, and once they start breeding they never stop. Seriously a
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Can I use bogwood to soften my water?
Not in any meaningful way no. Let’s get technical. A bog is often where a lake used to be. The
Read MoreCorydoras Taxonomy Shake Up – The list of species.
This is information from Phylogenomic analyses in the complex Neotropical subfamily Corydoradinae (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) with a new classification based on
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Can I keep soft water fish in hard water?
So many text books that say that keeping soft water fish in hard water is better than the reverse, but
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Can I keep goldfish with tropical fish.
My knee-jerk response was no, that these are cold-water fish and they need different things. But I suddenly thought, where
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Daily Question: How long do I need to leave my aquarium light on each day? I don’t have plants, but the room is pretty dark, I’ve heard fish don’t need light.
Between 6 and 8 hours. If the room is really dark then maybe more. Fish need a day-night cycle, because
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Daily Question: I’ve been told you shouldn’t change too much water, 10% weekly is enough and 25% once a month. You recommend 50% a week.
There is a lot of myths about water changes. Let’s put a few of them to bed before we look
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How come I have to worry about changing the water hardness when most fish are locally bred in my tap water.
Some fish may be locally bred in your tap water, but the number in an average fish shop is so
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