Websites fishkeepers should have bookmarked

[Hendre]

Hey everyone.

I have been sorting out my bookmarks (Just crammed them into a folder for years) so of course I have folders for my aquarium related endeavours and research over the years. This relates both to MFK, general keeping and ichthyology/aquatic research. I'll put it all out here for anyone that may find it interesting, and do share links to other articles, sites or papers that may be beneficial or enriching for other aquarists! Just a note - these are very biased towards my interests and do not represent all of fishkeeping.

If this gains traction it can perhaps be made into a proper sticky

From MFK
Bichir articles or posts:
Senegals WC vs CB
Polypterid fossil record and natural history
Shark tailed Polypterus lapradei bichir
Update on Polypterus bichir taxonomy
Lake Turkana P. senegalus
Bichir breeding experiences

Catfish
Oldest, biggest RTC in an aquarium

Saltwater
Coral gardening in the South Pacific
Anybody know anything about jellyfish
Discussion about sharks

General:
HITH Revisited
Warning to everyone against feeder fish
Live fish as food nutritional value concerns
Foods with and without thiaminase
Whats the big deal about soft water cichlids in hard water - rant
Use of large Praziquantel doses on Stingrays
Putting the size of tankbusters in perspective
Piranha species poster
Maximum size of Cichlasoma festae
Variation in Clown Loach colour
Sleeper goby species gallery
Stingray laws in California
32000 litre aquarium
Flow rate of Eheim canister without cleaning
Eheim 2262 review
Small or large water changes?
Affording good setups on a budget
Worried your stand won't hold up? Some maths
Some notes about breeding for profit
Unusual invertebrate - Aegla
AMA with Oddball
Fish rarely seen for sale anymore
Stripping female cichlids of eggs
Arowana tetra
Freshwater hermit crabs
Cool fish most have never heard of
Mini red-tail barracudas
True piraiba size
Best fry foods
Show off gobies and other bottom dwellers
An aqua hobby journey and large tanks
Baby whale shark tagged and released
alloophorus robustus - the platy from hell
How do you become an admin
Brachychalcinus Orbicularis (Disk Tetra)
Arapaima pond build
African Hingejaw - Phractolaemus ansorgii
Albino, Leucistic, Xanthic, Melanistic, etc. Fish
Denitrification
L046 pleco setup
Fry tank questions

External links

General
WetWebMedia - Covers many aspects of fishkeeping
SeriouslyFish - More in-depth species profiles and other articles

Plants
Crypt aquarium plants
Bucephalandra culture
CO2 and low water hardness
What is a biotope aquarium

Fish profiles, care or info

Polypterus - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Notopteridae - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Jellyfish care manual
Automated clownfish breeding setup
Nerite eggs have hatched, are they planktonic?
Nerite Snail breeding
Bichir dissection From Paleo art blog
Nothobranchius Killifish breeding
Raising Caridina multidentata
Amano shrimp
Breeding amano shrimp
All Nothobranchius species
Polypterus and ropefish info
L-282 pleco

Diseases
American aquarium products - Using medication
Aquarium science - Disease list
Humble.fish - Marine fish diseases & treatment

Saltwater
DIY Kreisel
Captive Bred Marine fish 2019
Reefs.com - Covers a wealth of Marine topics

Live food culture
DIY Bloodworm farm
Aquariumtidings - How to culture blackworms
California blackworm culture
Fishlore daphnia culture
Daphnia culture made simple
LiveFoodCultures - Various live foods
Red & Grindal worm culture

Water chemistry
What ammonia test do you use?

Articles that can be found through WayBack Machine
With this tool you can access sites that are no longer functional. Click a hyperlink to open the URL that you can search with. Images may not always work.
Link to the WayBack Machine
FusedJaw - Seahorses and Pipefish
AquaLandAndPetsPlus - Many fish profiles (Relatively outdated)
VentralFins - Various articles, mainly live food and Marine

Misc.
Aquatic photography lenses
Reptile vivarium construction 101
Indonesian man grieves as father fries arowana pet for lunch
Fish species at Leks Ranch Thailand
Nat geo blog: The pride of the Purus river - An iridescent income from ornamental fish
Questions about starting a small public aquarium



Ichthyology

African fish & South African aquatics
Spiracular breathing in Polypterus
Cave fishes of Africa
Study on Clarias cavernicola
John Samuell Budgett - in search of Polypterus
Cape ecoregion fishes
Shrimp along south African coast
Interpretations of Polypterus skulls
Genetic analysis of African Highland catfish
New species in the Nothobranchius ugandensis species group
Conservation study of the Cederberg fishes
Locomotion of Polypterus on land

Nerite snails and marine larvae
Culturing echinoderm larvae through metamorphosis
Larvae development of Polinices pulchellus
Inducing larval metamorphosis in marine inverts
Marine veligers
Spawning nerite snails under laboratory conditions


Misc science articles & Books
Ichthyology to independence - Britannica 11th edition
Guppy eyes feeling anger

Magazines & Print Publications
Drum and Croaker - Long running science journal
Coral Magazine - Saltwater aquaria via Reef2Rainforest

So that sums up all the bookmarks I have on fish currently! Tomorrow I will properly format everything into nice hyperlinks instead of this mess. Please share what you might have saved, it would be an awesome database for MFK and fishkeepers in general. Thanks!

 

[Kolton13]

What’s that website that has a lot of FHs? I don’t remember the name and all they had was Flowerhorns.

 

[Dalfrey86]

Well done Hendre well done indeed.

 

[Hendre]

Well done Hendre well done indeed.

Thanks. I am hoping others will also add any sites or threads that are particularly relevant. I ichthyogeek what do you have up your sleeve?

 

[DMD123]

Hendre , Awesome idea, needs to be a future sticky for sure!

Ive used this site for disease/medication related questions, like what to use, meds that can be mixed, etc.

Aquarium Medications and Treatments Part 1 | How They Work & Use

How aquarium and pond medications and treatments work. Information as to gram positive or negative, aerobic or anaerobic, dosage and diseases they are effective for. By fish/aquarium disease expert/guru Carl Strohmeyer

www.americanaquariumproducts.com

 

[Hendre]

Hendre , Awesome idea, needs to be a future sticky for sure!

Ive used this site for disease/medication related questions, like what to use, meds that can be mixed, etc.

Aquarium Medications and Treatments Part 1 | How They Work & Use

How aquarium and pond medications and treatments work. Information as to gram positive or negative, aerobic or anaerobic, dosage and diseases they are effective for. By fish/aquarium disease expert/guru Carl Strohmeyer

www.americanaquariumproducts.com

Thanks! Have added the link in, keep it coming!

 

[DMD123]

Here is another site I use, again for disease related info. I used it for lymphocystis diagnosis.

10. Diseases - Aquarium Science

Diseases are generally not a problem in aquariums which have over-filtered, crystal clear, bacteria-free water. . The Key to Good Fish Health is Clean, Clear, Bacteria Free Water . Note this does not mean water which is changed frequently. The idea that water changes create good health is a...

aquariumscience.org

 

[ichthyogeek]

Thanks. I am hoping others will also add any sites or threads that are particularly relevant. I ichthyogeek what do you have up your sleeve?

Absolutely nothing. I'm a horrible magician. The only relatively applicable bookmarks I have are for liveaquaria diver den's request forms, and premium aquatics (they sell LRS online). Here's what I've got in my brain though:

Reef2Reef (I started moving most of my online forum time to there from ReefCentral, and a couple of tizzies aside, it's been a delight)
PlantedTank (is still alive, and while not exactly kicking, there're still a couple of devoted people on the forum to help out the newbies that join us)
PlanetCatfish (I should really log back on...)
Scapeclub (still unsure if I'm moving to LA or not...)


https://www.reef2rainforest.com/201...ptive-bred-marine-fish-species-list-for-2019/ (this is the 2019 list of all captive bred saltwater fish. I can't find the 2020 version....)

humble.fish (for saltwater disease, an amazing resource for how to treat a lot of common parasites/diseases; I wish Humble would do a freshwater writeup....)

fusedjaw.com (is defunct, but you can still use the waybackmachine to access parts of the site. Tami wrote a bunch of really good articles on seahorses, ranging from tankmates to frozen mysis)

aqualandpetsplus.com (also defunct/they did a complete site revamp, but using the waybackmachine to sometime like 2015 or so gets you to the site. They have a couple of monster fish profiles which may or may not be accurate)

ventralfins.com (yet another defunct website. It's somewhere in the waybackmachine. The dude had a really good kreisel tutorial, as well as some bomb brine shrimp instructions.)

livefoodcultures.com (may or may not sell live food cultures at this point? Still has some pretty good info on a lot of live foods!)

drumandcroaker.org/pastissues.html (more of a science journal than a magazine, but worth the read)

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/fishfood/wormculture.php (combining culture of red worms with grindal worms; one culture fits all! I always forget about this nifty little article, but it was mind blowing when I first read it around 6 or so years ago)

Coral Magazine ( During around April 2020 or so, they released a username/password so that people could get through the pandemic by reading all the back issues available. I forgot what it was, but I'm fairly certain it's somewhere on the web; whether it's still valid or not is up for debate...)

WetWebMedia (Bob recently passed away (RIP), but he gave me some good advice when I reached out to him. Some of the articles are outdated, but it's fairly easy to parse through which ones are and which ones aren't)

reefs.com (look up the "breeder's net", it does a great job of detailing how to culture a lot of things you'd need for saltwater aquaculture)

YouTube: Oh dear. If I get into any debates about monster fish keepers on youtube. it'll probably end up with me getting banned. But if information is what you seek, BulkReefSupply (saltwater) and Aquarium Co-Op (freshwater) are fairly good at covering a lot of stuff. I might start a YT channel just to get my accummulated knowledge out there? IDK.

Scholar.Google.com . If you're a college student, it's a wonderful resource, since your university probably has access to at least some journals. I've gotten a lot of good information by just being curious and typing in stuff like "Tigriopus culture" to see what pops up.

Books! If you can, get your hands on books! The Plankton Culture Manual, How to Raise and Train your Peppermint Shrimp, and The Complete Illustrated Breeder's Guide to Marine Aquarium Fishes are all amazing.

 

[BillyMaysChickenWings]

All useful contributions... except maybe Indonesian man grieves as father fries arowana pet for lunch lol

 

[Hendre]

All useful contributions... except maybe Indonesian man grieves as father fries arowana pet for lunch lol

That's why it's in misc