Fish Glossary
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Platinum Gourami (Freshwater Fish)
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Platinum Gourami has white body with silver or yellow undertone. It is a flat fish having diamond shape. Its size is 13 cm. It belongs to family Osphronemidae . It eats Hydra, fresh, live and flake food. Small Platinum Gourami are peaceful fish but adult Platinum Gourami are aggressive. Platinum Gourami are found in rivers and streams.
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Powder Blue Dwarf Gourami (Freshwater Fish)
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The body coloring of Powder Blue Dwarf Gourami is powdery blue with additional subdued vertical striping on the body and fins. It belongs to Osphronemidae family. It eats vegetables, brine shrimp, white and blood worms. It is a peaceful fish in an aquarium. It is found in thick vegetative paddy fields, rivers and waterways.
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Snakeskin Gourami (Freshwater Fish)
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Snakeskin Gourami is a light yellowish brown fish. A broken dark line running horizontaly in the mid of its body and sometimes, it is found in zig zag pattern. They eat all kind of foods as they are omnivores. They are well known peaceful fish. It lives in slow flowing and standing water. It belongs to Osphronemidae family.
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Freshwater Angelfish (Freshwater Fish)
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Freshwater Angelfish is silver colored fish having long anal and dorsal fins. The size of Angelfish is 6 inches. Young Angelfish are peaceful but old are aggressive. They eat all kind of flake, fresh and live food. They belong to family Cichlidae . They live in slow moving rivers and can swim in all areas of aquarium.
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Altum Angelfish (Freshwater Fish)
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faint bars. It is member of Cichlidae family. It is a peaceful fish. It can eat brine shrimp, blood worms, lettuce, spinach and many more fresh, live and flake foods. Altum Angelfish is Altum Angelfish has silver body with a greenish tint. It has four dark board vertical bars and a few found in the rivers.
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Blood Parrot Fish (Freshwater Fish)
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The body of Blood Parrot Fish is roundish balloon shaped. It has small mouth which has nose like beak of parrots. Thats why it is called Parrot Fish. They are aggressive fish. It eats fresh, flake and live food along blood worms and brine shrimp. It is found in aquariums and member of Cichlidae family.
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Green Discus Fish (Freshwater Fish)
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Green Discus Fish are the most graceful fish and are titled as King of the Aquarium Fish . They have dark brownish to green body. They belong to family Cichlidae . They are peaceful fish. They eat variety of live foods including brine shrimp, chopped beef heart, blood worms. They live in banks and rivers.
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Flowerhorn Cichlid (Freshwater Fish)
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Flowerhorn Cichlid has nuchal hump on head and thick oval body. It scale can be bluish green, red and pink in the front body part. It is aggressive fish and eat all kind of fresh, live and frozen food of high quality. It belongs to Cichlidae family. It is a domestic fish and found in aquariums.
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Heckel Discus (Freshwater Fish)
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Heckel Discus are large and compressed fish. They have round body with nine strips. Heckel Discus are peaceful fish. They are a schooling fish and enjoy nipping. They eat live food and like to eat frozen brine shrimp, chopped beef heart and bloodworms. They are member of family Cichlidae . They live in quite and planted water.
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Blue Acara (Freshwater Fish)
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Blue Acara are beautiful fish with steel blue gray color. A few green horizontal lines are present on face. They are peaceful fish with equal sized fish. They are caring parents and belong to family Cichlidae . They eat insects, white and blood worms and crustaceans. They need protein foods. They inhabit clear flowing and turbid streams.
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