In my February 2020 article titled Ferrari: The Tranquil Indian Star Tortoise, I wrote about my unexpected animal companion Ferrari, a seven-year-old female Indian Star tortoise whom I have been taking care of since 2014.
In the first of this three-part series, the importance of water chemistry was discussed, together with how water quality could be maintained so that fishes remained healthy. The many types of commercially-available filter equipment were enumerated as well. Other elements of filtration are then to be explored.
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