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If the questions is what is the waste product of freshwater fish, then that would be ammonia.

Freshwater Fish product ammonia which is excreted through their gills and into their water, to keep this poisen to a minimum you need to a filter which has bacterial build up in the media which lives on ammonia and converts it into nitrite, then another group of bacteria absorb nitrite and product nitrates. Nitrates are much less dangerous to fish and some of them are used up by plants so planted tanks are much healthier for fish nitrates however do need to be kept low and weekly water changes should do that effectively.

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