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How To Choose The Best Amazon Aquarium Trickle Filters?

How To Choose The Best Amazon Aquarium Trickle Filters? (2023)

Trickle filters are a specialised filtration system, used mainly on quite large aquaria, or to run more than one aquarium. Trickle filters are biological filters which sit underneath the tank. They consist of a sump, which is simply an aquarium or other water receptacle which contains a biological filter medium, usually bioballs, through which the […]

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Benga Yellow Caring Guideline: How To Breed Aulonocara Baenschi

Aulonocara baenschi Wild Caught Male Aulonocara baenschi pictured. Females pictured below. Aulonocara baenschi “Nkhomo Reef” male and female pictured Aulonocara baenschi “Nkhomo Reef” females pictured. Common Names:  Sunshine Peacock, Benga, Benga Yellow. Location collected from:  Nkhomo Reef near Benga Approximate Size:  Males 4.5″   Females 4″ Food: Not a picky eater.  Eats flake food quite

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Aquarium Expedia: How To Care Haplochromis sp. Flameback

Why Is Filtration Necessary? – The Biology Of The Aquarium (2023)

Why is filtration necessary? Why filter the water? The answer is quite obvious when one considers what happens in an aquarium. A fish is a living organism; it eats, excretes in, and “breathes” from the water that surrounds it. The biology of the Aquarium Fishes waste products may be solid (eg faeces) or dissolved (eg urine,

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