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Honestly if you want good prices and healthy livestock don't shop for fish at WalMart. Ontario is home to a large chain of great...
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When the tank is filled it will not be to the brim so it will only hold about 3.5 or at most 4 gallons. Your tank will hold a...
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Provided the fly had not been poisoned with fly spray it will be good food for your Betta. The more small flys it gets the...
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If you mean the most toxic then it is the stonefish of Australia
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The fresh water parrot fish was made in a laboratory by some scientists in Asia. Because it is a man made species it can not be...
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Provided it has been cleaned out properly there is no logical reason why it should not be perfectly good working on a fresh water...
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Most cichlids grab mouths and wrestle when they reach maturity to check each other out as potential breeding partners. That could...
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There is no difference. Koi are pool fish. They were developed by the Japanese to have broad colourfull backs so they look good...
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Try going into some smaller aquarium or pet stores; just ask for Elodea as that is what it is usually called in pet stores. If...
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You're an idiot, of course they're living things.
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In exactly the same way that an animal (human) relies on the quality of the air it lives in and breathes. A fish too relies on...
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In exactly the same way that an animal (human) relies on the quality of the air it lives in and breathes. A fish too relies on...
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It is quite probable that the fry were already dead inside her. If not they would not last for long.
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You would need a good pre-filter to remove the sand and other rubbish and a properly set up reverse osmosis filter to produce the...
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You can start by saying goodby to your clownfish. They will die in a very short time if they do not have a much larger tank (at...
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In all probability it is either dead or dying. I guess you must have either done something wrong or neglected to do something...
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Fish first evolved from work-like chordates around 500 million years ago. The first fish were small and jaw-less. They filtered...
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Provided the tank is very well planted and not at all close to fully stocked, you could get away with no filter. I always advise...
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The green is water born algae. Algae is natures creation that is designed to clean up water. Whenever there is a supply of light...
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No species of fish will live for long in a tiny little container. Please read the following basic rules of fish keeping and...
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Although it may look like it, your fish will not be swallowing the rocks. It may well be mouthing the rocks to remove any algae...
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It is a tank that will hold one gallon of water when filled to the brim. No tank is ever filled to the brim so the tank will...
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If your fish will need to be out of water for some time because the distance is great between the tanks a waterproof plastic bag...
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Dying fish means you have not been looking after the fishes water properly. Please read the following basic rules of fish keeping...
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Please read the following basic rules of fish keeping and follow them. :- 1 inch of fish needs a minimum of 1 gallon of water. :-...
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None, including the betta, but especially not tetras Any fish can live for a short time in a small amount of water, but a person...
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Maybe the water is too hot or needs changing. Fish can go to the bottom for either reason. If the fish are not tropical and the...
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Tumours develop in fish when their water quality has not been good enough for a considerable time. I assume that you have not...
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Simply by living and breathing in water a fish puts out poisonous Ammonia and other bi products like CO2. In nature this ammonia...
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It experiences hypoglycemia. The lowered blood glucose means the brain with have an inadequate supply of fuel. The fish will go...
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Not in the way animals have sex. Clown fish lay eggs that are fertilised after they have been layed by the female.
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You can get live sand from www.bigalsonline.com for a good price.
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If there are heaps of small dead fish on a beach it usually means a prawn boat has been trawling in the area and the dead fish...
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The fish is panting because it is low on Oxygen because the water is either too hot or bad. Please do a water change ASAP. The...
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Goldfish will eat the brine shrimp (sea monkeys are brine shrimp). The shrimps would not survive in the fresh water that goldfish...
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If the aquarium contains cold water fish it should be below 65F most of the time. If the fish are tropical the temperature would...
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My guess is that it is an optical illusion caused by the light reflecting off its scales as it poos.
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A betta fish would be much more suited to a 1 gallon tank than a 'variety'. You shouldn't keep much more than one fish per gallon...
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Any name you like is a good name ;)
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Fish have: fins, eyes, organs, scales, etc Fish Do: Eat, sleep, breed, respire, swim, digest, excrete, react, etc.
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No they cant really control gravity anyway...
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Goldfish are a hardy species and can survive in worse water conditions than most fish. The basic rules for keeping fish healthy...
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Each time a Betta flares and puts on a display it is reputed to shorten his lifespan. I would not advise anyone to place a mirror...
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Yes provided you set it up properly as a vivarium with live terrestrial plants. Green Tree frogs only use water for breeding in....
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Depends on what you are after, species wise. In a river, look for large rocks or debris that slow the current down. Fish often...
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If the fish does this for fun rather than to breed it is classed as an "amphidromous" species. If the fish lives mainly in the...
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Certainly.... Your question is vague, BUT there are LOTS of fish which ARE most definitely pets!!!
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The equivalent of over 40. Bettas are mature adults at 6 months and old at 2 years they usually die of old age within 3 years
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Live snails or their eggs are often found on water plants. That is the most common cause of an unwanted snail infestation. Very...
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Probably because they are red.
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bungal na isda another idiot
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If the fish has poisonous spines it most certainly will hurt. In some species of fish the poison is very deadly and without...
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A very small one but only if you can fit a working filter to it. There are a couple of basic rules to follow if you with to keep...
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If by "Clown Fish" you mean the "Nemo" type then they are "Amphiprion sp." and part of the Perciform or perch group of fishes.
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Not long. In some species a few minutes in others maybe an hour or so and in others maybe a few days. It would be a terribly...
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There are heaps. Many small fish can be found amongst the following. Tetras,(many species) Rasboras,(All species) Danios,(Several...
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Agnatha is the group you are thinking of; commonly referred to as hagfish or lamprey.
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If you are asking about the "Nemo" type clown or anemone fish, they live in the tropical coral reefs with or around a sea anemone...
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Tropical fish flakes were designed for tropical fish species to eat and goldfish flakes were designed for goldfish. They require...
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In the wild they hunt and browse around looking for food and nibbling/eating what they find just about all day (or night for...
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I am not aware of any "schooling" or "shoaling" fish that is not an egg layer. This would imply that these species of fish do not...
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Look after their water quality. They are shellfish and need exactly the same care as some species of finned fish. They need heaps...
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I do not think fish have the same kind of emotions that we have, so our idea of "love" would be totally immaterial to them. They...
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Nothing really, sorry:'(
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The Pacus are vegetarian and pretty harmless but they get very very large weighing in at around 30 Kgs (70lbs approx) when fully...
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Both the Marine Biologist and the Ichthyologist study fresh and saltwater fish.
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Not necessarily.
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To specify the actual differences in scientific medical terminology is way beyond me to do and probably way beyond you to...
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Clownfish live in a symbiotic relationship with a Sea Anemone. They eat undigested bits and pieces that could possibly harm the...
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Not exactly. They perform a similar function and are made of basically the same chemicals but because fish live under water, they...
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Your betta is probably doing this because your water quality is not within healthy limits. If you haven't been doing consistent...
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Fish do have reflex actions.
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There is no way this can be defined accurately because no two students are the same and no two teachers are the same. In the...
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It could mean lots of things. The usual cause for this to happen is damage to the fishes gut caused by poor water conditions...
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Every fish lives in a different inviroment.If its a tropical fish and the water is to cold it will die.
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Put on a pair of rubber gloves, or wash your hands, then run a large bowl of clean water the same temperature as the water in the...
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Water is an important source to everything living. Without it, nothing will be able to survive.
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