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How to Get a New Silver Arowana to Start Eating
The silver arowana is a premium tropical fish that needs patience; a new fish should rest and adjust before it feeds. Keep the water clean and stable, hold the temperature at 25 to 28 degrees Celsius with a heater, and offer high-protein food such as fresh fish or quality pellets while watching which it prefers. Give a quiet, calm environment with minimal disturbance, and if it refuses food for a long time, a little aquarium salt can curb bacteria and fungi and spark appetite.
Why Dogs Have Bad Breath and Tartar
Bad breath usually traces to tartar: poor eating habits and no dental care let plaque calcify into tartar. Scraping it at home with a dental scaler is not advised - few owners can control the dog through the whole process, and mistakes harm the gums. Better to have the vet scale once, then prevent daily with mouthwash, brushing or diet. Untreated tartar worsens breath and causes stomatitis, ulcers and red gums that block eating, and plaque harms the heart and kidneys. Prevent with daily (or every-other-day) brushing using dog toothbrush and paste, finger-wrap if the dog resists, and chewing toys; severe cases may need prescription food.
Why Is Your Dog Drooling So Much?
A dog that drools a lot is not always just greedy. Drooling has many causes, and often it is a signal of illness worth noting. It may be dental problems or teething, a throat obstruction or injury, fear and anxiety, overheating, old age, or even car sickness. Most drooling is normal behavior, but if disease is suspected, see a vet.
What to Do After Your Yellow-Margined Box Turtle Lays Eggs
After a yellow-margined box turtle lays eggs, move them to an incubator with the right conditions. Manage temperature and humidity carefully: aim for 25 to 30°C overall, with humidity near 65% in the first 25 days, 70% in the middle period (days 26 to 50), and 80% later (days 55 to 75). Also check that the eggs' air pores stay clear—blocked ventilation can stop development or kill the embryo. This article walks through the incubation care that helps your eggs hatch in about two to three months.
Special Nutritional Needs of Kittens
Kittens are not simply small adult cats. During rapid growth they need far more nutrition per pound of body weight—roughly twice the energy of an adult—to develop into strong, healthy adults. This guide walks through a kitten's two growth stages, explains why frequent small meals of a meat-based, easily digested formula work best, and covers the transition from kitten food to adult food around one year of age, including a gradual 5–7 day mixing period and portion control for indoor cats.
Why Is Your Dog Suddenly Drooling a Lot? 4 Causes to Watch
Dogs pant to cool off, so some drool on a hot day is normal. But sudden, heavy salivation in normal temperatures can signal trouble. The causes worth flagging are oral disease, poisoning, heatstroke, and neurological problems, with severe kidney or liver disease and even rabies as grave possibilities. Teething, car sickness, or excitement explain milder cases. When drooling pairs with collapsing, seizures, or suspected toxin exposure, head to the vet at once.
Flower Ranchu
The Flower Ranchu is a variety of goldfish. Because the Ranchu belongs to the egg-shaped, tiger-head goldfish group, the Flower Ranchu is one of the more distinctive goldfish varieties. Its most striking feature is a well-developed head growth, which is the key to its appeal.
White-lipped Mud Turtle
A strikingly pretty mud-turtle relative - the 'mango-head' morph can flush yellow onto limbs and shell. Friendly and mid-priced, but it cannot brumate and must be kept heated year-round.
Egg Turtles (Mud & Musk Turtles)
A collective name for the small, egg-shaped turtles of the family Kinosternidae - the mud turtles and musk turtles - popular for their compact size and personable behaviour.
Philippine Sailfin Lizard
The Philippine sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus pustulatus) is the largest agamid, famed for the tall sail on its tail; semi-aquatic and IUCN Vulnerable, it is a challenging but rewarding advanced keeper's lizard.