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Shoaling and schooling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are said to be shoaling (pronounced ), and if, in addition, the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, t...
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What type of shoaling fish is best? (How to stock 55 gallon?) Freshwater Newbie Forum ... My 55 gallon is going to be done cycling in not too long and I would like to start my stocking with the shoaling fish. It is going to be a community tank, and I am not sure on what I really want yet but here is an idea of what I'd...
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Do All Shoaling Fish Shoal in the Saltwater Aquarium? ... So you want a shoaling fish for your saltwater aquarium, eh? There are many delights associated with having a large aquarium, but keeping a small shoal (or school—more on that later) of fish can be visually stunning.
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Though familiarity has been widely studied in shoaling fish, few studies have investigated changes in prey competition as a function of time spent together within groups of initially unfamiliar individuals.
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Peuhkuri, N. (1997). Size-assortative shoaling in fish: The effect of oddity on foraging behavior. Animal Behavior, 54, 271--278. ... Peuhkuri, N. (1997). Size-assortative shoaling in fish: The effect of oddity on foraging behavior. Animal Behavior, 54, 271--278. Online articles have much greater impact More about...
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2. The fish become increasingly active as illumination decreases and shoals begin to disperse when it falls below about 0.1 f.c. The change from day to night patterns of behaviour is progressive; there is no sudden switch from one to the other at any single level of illumination.
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A 1 hour 0.5μgl−1 dose was sufficient to alter the response of members of a shoaling fish species (juvenile banded killifish, Fundulus diaphanus) to conspecific chemical cues. Dosages of 1-2μgl−1 caused killifish to orient away from dosed conspecifics, in both a flow channel and an arena.
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