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Essential Equipment: Fish Container

Once you have done the hard part and actually caught something you want to take back to your aquarium, you are going to need something sturdy, reliable, safe and that isn’t going to spill water all over your car on the journey home. A bucket isn’t going to cut it,…

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Common Shore Crab in an Aquarium
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Common Shore Crab

These little (and not so little) critters are very entertaining to watch but be warned, they will wreak havoc in a tank with other, smaller species in it. Absolute carnage, they’re the worst kind of anti-social neighbour and if ASBO’s were a thing in the underwater world the common shore…

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Beadlet Anenome

Don’t be fooled by their stunning looks, these things are monsters! Anything they can catch, they will eat. Thankfully most of the things that live in the tank currently are smart enough to stay away from them, but anything that struggles to swim in the current is vulnerable. Anemones don’t…

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Chameleon Shrimp

These little guys are one of the coolest things I’ve had in the tank, but they were just too small to be able to survive in the aquarium so I no longer keep them. If they weren’t getting sucked into the overflow and down into the filter sock (where they…

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