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Monthly Archives: July 2012

How to Choose Healthy Fish: Avoiding Sick Fish in your Tank!

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How to Choose Healthy Fish: Avoiding Sick Fish in your Tank!

So you’ve decided to pony up the cash and buy yourself some fish. Congrats! You’re not only on the right site, but you’re reading just the right article, since it’s on how to pick healthy fish. You definitely don’t want to end up with sick fish. It’s a simple question, how to choose fish,...
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How to Clean Up Aquarium Algae

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How to Clean Up Aquarium Algae

What is aquarium algae? Well, algae are just a kind of plants that grow in the water. A little is okay, but in an aquarium, a lot can be disastrous. Aquarium algae are going to grow no matter what you do, since, like any plants, they thrive on water, sunlight, and nutrients. But you...
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How to Choose the Proper Aquarium Lighting

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How to Choose the Proper Aquarium Lighting

It might sound counterintuitive and potentially dangerous, but no fish tank is complete with aquarium lighting. Your fishy friends won’t get electrocuted from the lights, but aquarium lighting is essential for your scaly companions to live long, healthy, juicy lives. Now, there are different types of lights, and the kind of aquarium lighting you...
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How to Know How Often to Feed the Fish

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How to Know How Often to Feed the Fish

So you’ve got some fish and you’ve got a tank picked out. Shoot. How often should you feed your fish? Do you know? Just like how there are many school of fish in the ocean, there are many school of thoughts out there about how often to feed the fish. Well, it’s actually fairly...
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Choosing Live Fish Food for Your Aquarium (Brine shrimp, Bloodworms, Silversides, Tubifex Worms)

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Choosing Live Fish Food for Your Aquarium (Brine shrimp, Bloodworms, Silversides, Tubifex Worms)

Fish are not like us. Humans don’t like to eat things alive. Fish don’t mind at all. In fact, there’s a whole category of fish food known as live fish food. That’s what we’ll be looking at in this post. (If you want to read about dry fish food and other fish food types, click...
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How to Pick Fish for Your Aquarium

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How to Pick Fish for Your Aquarium

Aight, so you got an aquarium, a space all picked out for it, have completely flooded your apartment to make your fish feel more at home when it sees you doing the breaststroke around the breakfast nook. Now you’re probably scratching your hairy head – or bald, if you shaved it to, again, make...
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Choosing an Aquarium Tank Size-Need Aquarium Volume calculator?

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Choosing an Aquarium Tank Size-Need Aquarium Volume calculator?

Have you ever heard people say, “size doesn’t matter?” Well, don’t be fooled: Your aquarium tank size definitely matters. Also, they probably weren’t talking about aquarium tank size in the first place, but that’s what you’re here to read about, right? Check the link at the bottom for a nice calculator for aquarium volumes....
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Aquarium Testing, The best Fish Tank Test!

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Aquarium Testing, The best Fish Tank Test!

In another post, I told you all about the nitrogen cycle. Piggybacking off that is aquarium testing. Aquarium testing is important because it’s a surefire way to whether something’s off or hinky about your setup. Get ready to discuss the great Fish Tank Test! A lot of things can go wrong. What you need...
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Understanding the Nitrogen Cycle

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Understanding the Nitrogen Cycle

Nothing exists in a vacuum, and that basic principle holds true in your fish tank, too. The fish, the water, the plants, and even that little glowing treasure chest with a demon’s skull tucked away snugly inside are all part of the aquarium’s delicate ecosystem. The ecosystem lives and dies by what’s known as...
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