• Home Page

• A Brief History of Fishkeeping

• Equipment

1. The Aquarium
2. Aquarium Capacities
3. A Word of Warning
4. Polystyrene
5. Hoods
6. Gravel
7. Gravel Cleaner
8. Filters
9. Undergravel
10. Internal Filter
11. External Filter
12. Air Pumps
13. Aquarium Heaters
14. Lighting
15. Decor
16. Dechlorinator
17. Test Kits
18. Ammonia Test
19. Nitrite Test
20. Nitrate Test
21. pH Test
22. Water Hardness Test

• Setting Up Your Aquarium

1. Planning
2. Site Your Aquarium
3. Getting Started
4. Building Your Aquarium
5. Adding the Water
6. Prepare for Your Fish
7. Adding the Fish
8. How Many Fish
9. New Tank Syndrome

• Water Quality

1. The Basic Principals
2. Water
3. Water Hardness
4. pH of Water
5. Aeration
6. The Nitrogen Cycle
7. Ammonia/Ammonium
8. Nitrite
9. Nitrate
10. Media
11. Mechanical
12. Biological
13. Chemical

• Maintenance

• Feeding

1. Intro
2. Dry Foods and Flakes
3. Live Food
4. daphnia
5. Bloodworms
6. Tubifex worms
7. Earthworms
8. First Foods for Fry
9. Infusoria
10. Brineshrimp
11. Microworms
12. Vegetable Foods
13. Other Types of Food

• Diseases Control

^**** Important note

• Aquatic diseases overview

• Signs of ill health

1. Ill health due to environment
2. Lack of oxygen (Hypoxia)
3. Too much oxygen (Gas bubble disease)
4. Fluctuating pH (Acidosis & Alkalosis)
5. Faulty nutrition
6. Temperature shock
7. Poisons and Toxins
8. Detergents
9. Metals
10. Plastics
11. Chlorine

• I'll health due to poor water conditions

1. Nitrogen compounds
2. Ammonia
3. Ammonium
4. Nitrite
5. Nitrate
6. Hydrogen sulphide

• Ill health due infectious organisms

1. Infections of the skin & gills
2. Protozoal diseases
3. White-spot disease
4. Velvet disease

• Sliminess of the skin

1. Costia necatrix
2. Chilodonella cyprini
3. Trichodina

• Helminth Diseases

1. Skin Flukes
2. Gyrodactylus
3. Dactylogyrus
4. Diplozoon paradoxum
5. Diplostomum and Clinostomum

• Method of Treatment

1. Recommended treatment
2. Acriflavine
3. Chloramine
4. Chloromycetin^®
5. Formalin
6. Mepacrine
7. Mercurochrome^®
8. Merthiolate^®
9. Methylene blue
10. Potassium permanganate
11. Phenoxethol
12. Quinine
13. Sodium chloride (salt)
14. Streptomycin
15. Terramycin^®

• Breeding Tropical Fishes Introduction

1. Conservation and the Aquarist

• Determine the Right Environment

1. Temperature
2. Do You Understand Water Quality?
3. Water Conditions
4. If Hardness is too High
5. If Hardness is too Low
6. Checking Your pH
7. Reducing pH
8. Raising pH
9. A general guide to spawning
10. Egg Laying Fish
11. Livebearing Species
12. Change the Water

• The Breeding Tank

1. Spawning Mops
2. Rearing Tanks

• Food and Feeding

1. Food for the Offspring
2. Infusoria
3. Brineshrimp
4. Microworms

• Fishes Catalogue

• Tolerant Species

• Catfishes

1. Bronze Corydoras
2. Banded Corydoras
3. Peppered Corydoras
4. Elegant Corydoras
5. Plec
6. Synodontis
7. Upside-down Catfish

• Labyrinth Fishes

1. Three-Spot Gourami
2. Moonlight Gourami
3. Pearl Gourami
4. Chocolate Gourami
5. Giant Gourami

• Cichlids

1. American Cichlids
2. Angelfishes
3. The Discus Fish
4. Lake Malawi Cichlids
5. Lake Tanganyika Cichlids
6. African Non-Lake Cichlids

• American Cichlids

1. Flag Cichlid
2. Blue Acara
3. Keyhole Cichlid
4. Red Breasted Cichlid
5. Firemouth Cichlid

• Angelfishes

1. Altum Angel
2. Angelfish (scalare)
3. Long Nosed Angelfish
4. Angelfish (eimekei)

• Discus Fish

1. Common Brown Discus
2. Heckel Discus

• Discus Fish Requirements and Setting-Up

1. Size, Character, and Placement of Aquarium
2. Planting
3. Food and Feeding

• The Discus Fish Gallery

• Lake Malawi Cichlids

1. Blue Lumphead
2. Zebra Cichlid
3. Golden Tropheops
4. Fuelleborn's Cichlid

• Lake Tanganyika Cichlids

1. Five-Bar Cichlid
2. Lemon Cichlid
3. Dickfeld's Julie
4. Frontosa Cichlid

• African Non-Lake Cichlids

1. Dwarf Egyptian Mouth-Brooder
2. Purple Kribensis
3. Jewel Cichlid
4. African Butterfly Cichlid

• Characins

1. Black Widow Tetra
2. Cardinal Tetra
3. Emperor Tetra
4. Neon Tetra
5. Spotted Headstander
6. Common Hatchet Fish
7. Golden Pencilfish
8. Silver Dollar
9. Black Finned Pacu
10. Red Piranha
11. Dark Banded Piranha
12. Spotted Piranha

• Livebearers

• Swordtails

• Platies

• The Great Molly Myth

1. Short-Finned Molly
2. Mexican Sailfin Molly
3. Dwarf Molly
4. Sailfin Molly
5. One Spot Molly
6. Mexico Molly

• Killifishes (Egg-laying Tooth Carps)

1. Cinnamon Killie
2. Spotfin Killie
3. Blue Calliurum

• Cyprinids

1. Tiger Barb
2. Zebra Danio
3. White Cloud Mountain Minnow

• Loaches

1. Coolie or Kuhli Loach
2. Clown Loach
3. Shelford's Loach or Shelford's Prickly Eye
4. Hora's Loach

• Visitor's Questions(Questions on this page)
  
  (Answers on these pages)

1. Algae Bloom
2. Aquarium Volume
3. Beginner Cichlids
4. Breeding Cherry Barb
5. Can you keep tropical fish in cold water?
6. Catfish Problem
7. Cloudy Water
8. Dirty Water
9. DIY Atomiser
10. Guppies head up and tail down and wiggle
11. I changed all my water and my fish died
12. Is my Molly pregnant or just fat?
13. Moving House
14. New Tank Set Up
15. pH Keeps Rising
16. Phenoxethol Query
17. Plants Live or Artificial
18. Platy and Guppy Deaths
19. Pregnant Dalmatian Molly
20. Pregnant Platy
21. Pregnant Swordtail
22. Problems After Having Illness In The Tank
23. Small Garden Pond With Leeches
24. Softening the Water for Plants
25. Transferring Fish Died
26. Understanding Water Quality
27. Wanting to lower my pH
28. Water Clarity
29. What Is A Condensation Tray?
30. What Sort Of Fish Should I Get?
31. White Spot
32. Zebra Danio Distended Belly

• Acknowledgements