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    How to Train a Puffer to Eat Pellets 

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    madugo
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    As some of you puffer keepers know, puffers are so attractive, and full of personality. Each puffer is so unique, with its own personality and habits that you may never find in another puffer. So like I've said before, puffers are like puppy dogs in the aquarium rather than fishes.
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    Easy Start Syphon 

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mzungu View Post
    Easy start siphon: hook up your gravel vac tube to hosing. Position end of hose in spot where you would like it to drain
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    10 Gallon Aquarium Suggestions 

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    Once upon a time, the standard advice from advanced hobbyist to the novice was bigger is better. Buy the biggest tank you afford. But then came the birth of the nano and pico tank/desktop tank hobby, and suddenly 10 gallons wasn't so small. With better filter technology and attention being brought on smaller species of fish, you've got so much to choose from.
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    Keeping Tropheus: A beginners guide to the basics 

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    It occurred to me the other a day when a new member joined the box and asked for information about keeping Tropheus that we did not have a post or article outlining the basics to help those interested in keeping them. ...
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    Understanding CO2 and pH 

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    OK, first pH. The ph scale is from 0 to 14. Pure distilled water has a pH of 7, called neutral. pH below 7 is called acid. ...
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    Guide to collecting fish 

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    I figure I should share some background from my collecting experience... Collecting is terrible. In freshwater systems, ...
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    Female Betta Splendens Tail Types 

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    In the beginning there were Plakats (biting fish) a greenish brown short fined fish that lived in ditches & rice paddies of Siam (Thailand). ...
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