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The salt marsh harvest mouse, aka red-bellied harvest mouse, hails only from the San Francisco Bay area. Their preferred habitat is salt and brackish marshes with an ample supply of pickleweed. Due to the threats of habitat destruction and loss at the hands of residential and commercial development, agriculture, and […]

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Brine shrimp can be found in the salt ponds south of San Francisco, the Caspian Sea, and also in places where saltwater naturally evaporates along the Californian coastline. There are also various types around the world. They can also be found in the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, in the […]

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Perhaps, the most commonly kept fish species in the aquarium trade is the molly, aka common molly, shortfin molly, or sailfin molly. These hardy and attractive fish can tolerate a wide range of water qualities and can even survive in brackish water (water with a slight salinity “salt content”). Wild […]

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