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  1. Hello! New fish keeper (for my own personal tank) but my wife and I share 3 other aquariums. I’ve always been a sucker for the more unique species and our local mom and pop fish store had a bonded pair of Bolivian Rams I fell in love with. They couldn’t tell for certain either, but they think...
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  2. I thought I would take a stroll across the forum from my usual place in the American Cichlids department to summon @sir_keith and @DJRansome to pick their mind for a 100 gallon Tanganyika setup. I've got a 100 gallon that will become empty in a couple weeks and would love to know what a...
  3. Help me how many convicts in 2 feet tank I have no idea how many to put in thanks
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  4. So I started out with 19 baby Tropheus and an adult. Now a few months later I only have 4 left (a bit of a long story, can tell it if anyone is interested). The ones left are all different species (even though I bought one species, the seller gave me some other species for free). Last week I...
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  5. Hi everyone, I recently had an issue where a plastic plant got lodged in my Dragonblood peacocks mouth, coming out its gill. I got the plant out, but now it's not eating and has some fuzzy looking gill matter floating around outside the gill. What can I do to help it? I ordered stress guard...
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