Tag: amateur fishkeeper
member name: Dave Sandborg
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March 17, 2008 10:03 PM EDT --
When I was young, I remember having guppies in my small fish tank. I remember specifically how at one time we found that the female was pregnant. Unlike many fish, she did not lay eggs but . . .
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January 11, 2009 10:33 PM EST --
If you want to keep a healthy tank full of fish, it will take more work than just throwing some food at them on a regular basis. There are several other regular tank maintenance operations you should . . .
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August 25, 2009 09:34 PM EDT --
As of the beginning of this year I had begun to feel that my tank was about as complete as it can be. Ever since I decided to start an aquarium I had a pretty consistent vision of the composition . . .
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September 05, 2009 10:19 AM EDT --
If you're going to have an aquarium with fish, you will have to face the question of how best to introduce them to your tank. Store-bought fish probably will have been under a great deal of stress . . .
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March 09, 2009 10:53 PM EDT --
My aquarium is what is known as a "community tank". This means that it is in some sense a "mutt", containing a mix of fish species that would never e found together in nature. . . .
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July 16, 2007 08:20 PM EDT --
Different species of fish prefer to dwell in different layers of water. A good aquarium has fish that fill every level of the tank, and there is of course a very natural dweller for the bottom of . . .
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April 08, 2009 09:55 PM EDT --
From the beginning, I've had an image of the type of fish I've wanted to keep in my aquarium. It happens that many of the species I keep were ones that I had in a smaller aquarium when I . . .
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May 28, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
As unpleasant as it is to contemplate, the fish you keep will eventually die. With the kinds and numbers of fish I keep, it's a mathematical certainty that a few will die every so often. . . .
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February 20, 2008 09:22 PM EST --
As I've described elsewhere in this series of articles, I have often chosen my fish based on ones I had when I was a child, or ones that I wanted to have in the past but didn't have the chance . . .
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May 15, 2006 09:33 PM EDT --
I took a very long time between purchasing my equipment and stocking my aquarium with fish. I'm not sure that such a long lag time was necessary, but I wanted to work carefully and methodically, giving . . .
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June 01, 2006 08:39 PM EDT --
Zebra danios, often simply known as zebra fish, were one of the very first types of fish I got for my tank. In fact, they were one of the varieties of fish I remembered most from when I had an aquarium . . .
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September 09, 2006 08:07 PM EDT --
A month or so after my initial purposes of zebra fish and neon tetras, it was time to add a few more fish. I had been scouting out pet stores to see what I might want to buy next that would fit into my . . .
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March 10, 2008 08:15 PM EDT --
One of the first types of fish I had decided to get when I first set up my aquarium was a tetra variety referred to as the "head and tail light". This name is about as descriptive as it . . .
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April 21, 2008 10:04 PM EDT --
Though I generally enjoy my aquarium hobby, there have been some things that have frustrated me. In the Amateur Fishkeeper series, I have talked about some of them--mysterious die-offs, plants that . . .
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March 28, 2006 11:22 PM EST --
It's been a little over a year since I started keeping fish again. I'd had fish in my youth and enjoyed it very much, but for many years since had only thought about starting another tank. I have . . .
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January 16, 2007 11:17 PM EST --
I was performing a long-overdue water change on my aquarium this evening, when I noticed something concerning. One of my platys appeared to be missing. It is easy for me to miscount some of . . .
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July 22, 2006 07:18 PM EDT --
When buying my first batch of fish, I got two different varieties. Besides my zebra danios, I also got neon tetras. Like the zebra fish, I remembered having neon tetras as a kid. They were another of my . . .
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March 01, 2007 10:10 PM EST --
It may be surprising, but freshwater fish tolerate--and even sometimes like--a bit of salt in their water. Some species of fish live in brackish water naturally--such conditions are normal in river . . .
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April 09, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
In past articles in this series I've talked about a variety of aspects of aquarium water chemistry. Now I come to perhaps the most important of all, but also perhaps the least understood by novices, . . .
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March 31, 2008 09:31 PM EDT --
When I first decided to keep my own aquarium, I had a very early choice to make--live plants or not? I had never kept aquatic plants before, and have never had much of a green thumb for terrestrial . . .
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