Welcome to any new fish keepers.
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Have you just got a new tank and you've not got a clue what to do with it? Here's a little intro to start, Check out our website tropicalfishkeeping.co.uk for more articles to help, and there is a video series on what to do starting on our YouTube channel
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December Q & A
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Some questions that have been asked. IF you like this let me know and I'll make it a regular thing. We have questions on plants not growing, fish not breeding and more. Got a question yourself. Head over to any of the social medias and ask. For some of the plants I mentioned. Sorry if i sound a bit breathless, allergies decided to exist, hopefully I can get them sorted soon.
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To be human is to keep fish?
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Join me as I ramble on about the link between humans and the pets we love.
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Andinoacara, Blue Acara, Green Terrors, and Saums.
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Let's carry on look at cichlids, this time moving to the Andes to look at Andinoacara. From Blue Acara to Green Terrors, these can be amazing species as pet fish, or a great breeding project.
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AI is going to kill animals.
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The advice that various AI platforms are pumping out is dangerously wrong, this is fine if it's just a random fact, but now when people are using this, and pushing it to treat animals, Fish especially.
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Cheap fish
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Deformed, diseased, and cheap. So many of the fish that are being sold, shouldn't be available at all. Let's stop thinking of this as a cheap hobby and start looking to pay more for our pets.
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The biggest problem I'm seeing at the moment
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Wnat to hear what is getting me very angry? Yes? Great here it is. Enjoy.
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Cichlids of South America- Pike cichlids
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Continuing our journey around South America looking at Cichlids, Today we join Alfred Russel Wallace in one of the most harrowing parts of his adventures, and then look at Pike cichlids, and one decent alternative.
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Cichlids of South America- Discus
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Let's leave the cold wet winter behind and head to the tropics, the Amazon River Basin to be exact, looking at the cichlids that occupy the reaches of the river, specifically the discus. Often thought to be the king of cichlids, or even fish, there is far more than you might think to those stunning fih.
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Cichlids part 1
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Okay follow me on a journey into my favourtie fish, or group of fish. Cichlids. From Rift Lake Cichlids to South American, and all the rest. Apologies for the wrandom noises. I'm not feeling up to rerecording it, and I messed up a bit, I will do better next time.
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But what do I mean, what are I refering to when I ask that question? What is ammonia and why is it an issue, why do we want to know. Where does ammonia and nitrite come from, and what harm do they cause?
This is for those just starting out, and for more experienced aquarists, hopefully there will be something interesting for everyone.
Ruth McDonald has been keeping fish for over two decades now, and has been researching fish since her master thesis into what fish eat dead bodies took a turn into what fish like to eat. She's taught at university level, and has been running Tropical Fish Keeping UK for 10 years.