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Lemon Tetra - A Perfect addition for your Community Aquarium
Excerpt : Lemon Tetra Glassily transparent, the lemon tetra (hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis) could appear to be just a sunbeam flashing through your community tank if not for background elements like plants
Lemon Tetra
Glassily transparent, the lemon tetra (hyphessobrycon pulchripinnis) could appear to be just a sunbeam flashing through your community tank if not for background elements like plants and driftwood. Another member of the large characin clan, the lemon tetra has a fairly elongated body like its smaller relative the neon tetra and like
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How To Grow Daphnia For The Aquarium
The benefits of feeding live food to fish in a community tank are many: live food will improve vigor and color, and more closely resemble the food...read more
Setting up your first tropical fish tank
When you have decided what type of fish and plants you wish to
keep, found a suitable tank and purchased all the necessary
equipment, the next step...read more
neons and other characins, the lemon tetra does best if kept in small schools of six to eight fish.
One of the most distinguishing features of the lemon tetra is their large eyes. The upper part of the lemon tetra’s eye is brilliant red, which is a sharp contrast to the yellow pastels it displays in its body colors. Actually, though, the lemon
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Clown loaches in aquariums
The Clown Loach is a popular fish in tropical aquariums since it
is very beautiful and not too difficult to keep. Its scientific
name is Botia...read more
Raising Vinegar Eels For the Aquarium
It is a well known fact that feeding live food to your fishes will help them to grow better, show better coloration, and improve vigor. Fish love a...read more
tetra is quite colorful on close inspection. Body coloring is a delicate pale yellow, flanks are silver, and the leading edge of the anal fin is shiny-bright-yellow and sharply divided from the other rays, which are black. In the male, the rest of the anal fin is broad and fringed in black, a characteristic that is missing in the plumper female. As many male
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Aquarium Filter
There are two different kinds of filters; there are external
filtration systems and internal filters. Internal filters are
used in salt water and...read more
How To Keep Your Aquarium Clean
No one likes living in a dirty, stuffy house. Thank goodness a
little dirt is not hazardous to our health. The same cannot be
said for our aquatic...read more
characins do, the male lemon tetras also have tiny hooks on their anal fins. Both males and females have the tetras’ characteristic adipose fin, which is also pale yellow in color.
Although omnivorous and able to exist on a diet of flaked food, the pale yellow color of the lemon tetra displays best if the fish’s standard diet is well supplemented
Quick Tips for Fish Tank Cleaning
Cleaning Your Fish Tank
One of the nicest additions to any home is a fish tank. A fish
tank creates a colourful, relaxing ambience and they...read more
with live treats. The lemon tetra is an egg-scatterer. However, breeding can be tricky since females often have a problem expelling their eggs and after spawning, the lemon tetra like many others of its species, is quick to cannibalize its eggs if not removed from the breeding tank. However, eggs will hatch in about 24 hours after spawning. Fry should be fed
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Aquarium Equipment
Aquariums are not just a tank and a stand, the aquarium has to
be filled with certain equipment such as heaters and filters.
Aquarium equipment is...read more
Aquarium Tank
Your aquarium tank is something that you should choose wisely.
It is not something to be bought on a whim. The tank has to be
suitable for what you...read more
a live diet and if they survive, they’ll be about two inches long as adults.
The Optimum Cichlid Aquarium Part 2
Part 2
Heating
If you want to keep Cichlids you will need to heat them. A good guide is approximately 1 watt of heating per liter of water. A...
Tropical Fish Aquarium
Tropical fish are beautiful and are brilliant for keeping at
home provided that they have the right habitat. When thinking of
keeping tropical fish...
Keeping The Aquarium Clean
You do clean your house don’t you? Well you have to clean your Goldfish’s house too and it’s a lot simpler! Cleaning and maintaining a goldfish tank...read more
Setting Up A New Aquarium
Location of your aquarium So, you bought your very first fish tank. And you probably already decided where to place it. But keep in mind that a...read more
Start Your Own Saltwater Fish Tank
Saltwater fish tanks are mesmerizing. It's amazing to
create and observe an environment in your own home. Before you
go out and buy...read more
Detroit - For the eight years Susan Doolittle lived in Detroit she never visited the Belle Isle Aquarium before it closed. When she heard the historic building would be opened on Saturday she brought her daughter Madeline, 10, for a visit.
The New England Aquarium plans a $15 million facelift, including renovation of its Giant Ocean Tank and surrounding exhibit spaces plus opening a new ground-floor center focused on conservation and research efforts. Scheduled for completion in July 2013, it marks the final phase of a five-year, $42.5 million expansion and renovation program for the Boston aquarium, which opened on the city’s ...
WINDSOR, Ont. -- With Toronto getting an aquarium beside the CN Tower, Windsor shouldn’t try to build its own $50-million to $100-million aquarium, says a report going to city council Monday night.
The New England Aquarium, one of the region's most popular attractions, is planning a $15 million renovation of its core exhibits as the final phase of a five-year upgrade.
At 9:45 a.m. Saturday, with a just a few minutes left before Shiver on the River opened to the public, Vance Patrick looked outside the Belle Isle Aquarium and saw 54 faces peering back at him.
BOSTON -- The New England Aquarium, one of the region's most popular attractions, is planning a $15 million renovation of its core exhibits as the final phase of a five-year upgrade.
SANDY, Utah, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Â The Living Planet Aquarium board of trustees selected Beecher Walker Architects and Layton Construction for the development, design and construction of the new ...
