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ARTICLE LIBRARY

Beginners
- 12 Quick Tips for beginners
- Getting started
-- Buying the tank and equipment
-- Positioning the tank
-- Setting up
-- Buying and adding fish

Common problems and questions:
- Algae - types and dealing with it
- Cloudy water
- Snails
- Water Changes
-- Vacuuming substrate

Selecting fish:
- Good starter fish
- Community fish - with caution!
- Intermediate level fish
- Fish to avoid!

Equipment and decor
- Airpumps
- Filtration
- Heating
- Lighting
- Powerheads
- Substrate materials
- Tank decor

Health and Disease
- Columnaris
- Dropsy
- Finrot
- Fungus
- Gill disease
- Hole-in-the-head (HITH)
- Neon Tetra Disease
- Velvet
- Whitespot

ARTICLE LIBRARY cont...

Plants
- Basic Plant Care Guide
- Light Requirements of Aquarium Plants
- Plant Directory

Product Info

Product specifications
- Spec's for airpumps
- Spec's for external canister filters
- Spec's for internal power filters
- Spec's for fluorescent tubes
- Spec's for powerheads

Reviews
- In-Depth Review - Water Conditioners
- Review - Phos-Zorb
- Review - Tap Water Purifier
- Review - Fluval 304 canister filter

Reference
- Standard tank capacities and stocking levels
- Conversion factors - length
- Conversion factors - temperature
- Conversion factors - volume

ARTICLE LIBRARY cont...

Water chemistry
- Chlorine and chloramine
- The Basics of Cycling
- More on The Nitrogen Cycle
- Hardness
- pH
- Test kits - which do you need?
- Using pure water in the aquarium

Miscellaneous articles
- Breeding Angelfish
- Breeding Corydoras panda
- Buying and introducing new fish - a cautionary tale
- Culturing Microworms
- Keeping Polypterus
- Malawi mbuna cichlids
- Moving house with aquarium fish
- Understanding Scientific Names for fish
- A simple Quarantine tank

- Guide to Aquarium Fish Magazines

Public Aquaria:
Images of SeaWorld
Blue Planet Aquarium, UK
London Aquarium

Fishkeeping Quiz!
- Level 1 (Beginner)
- Level 2 (Intermediate)
- Level 3 (Advanced)

Recommended Books

FISH INDEX

Anabantids (bettas, gouramies)

Catfish (corydoras, synodontis, 'plecs')

Characins (tetras, hatchets, piranha, pencilfish)

Cichlids (oscar, firemouth, Malawi's)

Cyprinids (barbs, loaches, sharks)

Killifish

Livebearers (guppies, mollies, platies)

Rainbowfish

Miscellaneous (arowanas, bichirs, elephantnoses, puffers)

A-Z by Common name

A-Z by Scientific name

TANK SETUPS

My Tanks

- Fish house

- Polypterus, Knifefish, African Tigerfish tank

- Leiarus pictus tank

- Brackish predator tank

- Polypterus, Ropefish, Knifefish

- Brackish Tank 2

- Polypterus and Knifefish tank

- Siamese Tigerfish tank

- Polypterus, Snakehead, Clowns

- Tanganyikan tank

- Wolf Fish

- Black Piranha

- Nano Reef

- Erythrinus

- Shelldwellers

- Erythrinus

- Puffers

- Puffer

- Spare/QT/rearing

- Spare/QT/rearing

Visitors tanks

LINKS

Fishkeeping and aquarium websites

Commercial/manufacturer websites

 

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