Freshwater Aquarium Fish

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1. Gut bacteria help these catfishes digest wood. Corydoras species Panaque species Clarias species Otocinclus species

2. The disease-causing microsporidian Pleistophora hyphessobryconis was discovered in farmed varieties of Oscars Zebra Danios Neon Tetras Angelfish

3. Most of the U.S. commercial farms for ornamental fishes are in Florida's alkaline waters, which create difficulties in breeding Tiger Barbs Opaline Gouramis Cardinal Tetras Bettas

4. Your fishes didn't come from the store in a plastic bag of water, but as eggs sent in the mail wrapped in damp peat moss in a baggie. They are Ichthyophthirius species, Australian rainfish Melanotaenia species, New Guinea rainbowfish Aphyosemion species, African killifish. Apistogramma species, dwarf cichlids

5. "Fishless cycling" involves dosing a new aquarium with household ammonia. clearing parasites by running an empty aquarium. innoculating a new aquarium with dirty gravel. innoculating a new aquarium with packaged bacteria.

6. Tiger Barbs have developed a difficult reputation in many community tanks because of their territorial requirements. because of their insatiable appetite for duckweed. because of their taste for other fishes' skin slime. because of their too-lively pecking order.

7. Tetras are characoids; they have cousins in ___, while cyprinids assume the ecological roles of characoids in ____. Africa; Africa and Asia Asia; southern Europe southern U.S.; Asia and Australia Africa; Indonesia and Australia

8. The first glass domestic aquariums were to be found in Victorian England in Ming Dynasty China in late-eighteenth century France in "Jazz Age" New York

9. This feisty loner, a labyrinth fish related to Betta splendens, was the first "tropical fish" to be seen in Europe, imported to France in 1869. It is the Paradisefish. the Dwarf Gourami. the Siamese Fighting Fish. the Painted Glassfish.

10. Bizarre Farlowella and Sturisoma species are better known as banjo catfishes snakeheads freshwater stonefishes twig catfishes