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Not a fishy affair

Keep the fish and show them to the world

Aquatic delight

At the end, keeping fish in an aquarium is neither about Feng Shui nor Vaastu. It is about learning to take care of bowlful of surprises. If you are lucky the fish will breed and multiply and if you don't take care of your fish well enough, they will die. Between the two extremes you learn a lot.

If you need emergency care for your pets, the best and fastest source of information is the Internet. Not just the clutch of sites that peddle everything from gravel to invertebrates to discus, but the hobby groups. Some of them are so active that even before you post your problem the solution will be there. Even the topics list that is a part of the fish hobbyist groups is a great help. Read them through and you will get all your doubts clarified in no time. Of course, it is tricky territory, the moment you have a doubt, there will be a thousand recipes and there will be a fight.

There is one aspect that ties aquarium hobby with another hobby: photography. Photographing your fish and showing it to the world is the best way to show that you have arrived.

SERISH NANISETTI

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