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The condition of the water is the single most critical aspect in managing fish health. This focus on environmental factors is often the hardest learning step for veterinarians transitioning from terrestrial to aquatic animal care. It impacts all aspects of their life, including growth, reproduction, stress‐resilience, and health. The life support system (LSS) is the collection of equipment used to maintain and improve the condition of the water through managing its physical, chemical, and biological properties. Ensuring good water quality represents the ultimate preventive medicine challenge for the veterinarian working with aquatic systems, as there is both a science and an art to managing water in fish systems. This chapter will focus heavily on large, closed, recirculating systems as these are the most technically complex and are fairly common in public display aquariums. The concepts discussed can readily be “scaled down” or generalized to other systems.