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- Archive-name: aquaria/general-faq/README
- Rec-aquaria-archive-name: general-faq/README
- Alt-aquaria-archive-name: general-faq/README
- Sci-aquaria-archive-name: general-faq/README
- Posting-Frequency: monthly
-
- * This is only a text dump of part of the Aquaria FAQs. *
- * The web "original" may be more current, is navigatable hypertext, *
- * and contains enhanced content not available in this posted version! *
- * http://faq.thekrib.com or http://www.actwin.com/fish/mirror *
-
-
- The *.Aquaria FAQs: Contents
-
- The Aquaria FAQs are continually-evolving documents, so we would
- appreciate hearing of any inaccuracies, suggestions for improvements,
- volunteer authors, or other general comments. Comments can be sent as
- e-mail to either the entire group or individual authors of a FAQ or
- section (see the AUTHOR LIST for the most current addresses). Please,
- though, don't send us mail asking for help on your algae problem, just
- comments on the FAQ. Thanks!
-
- Copyright
-
- The FAQs owe their existence to the contributors of the net, and as
- such it belongs to the readers of rec.aquaria and alt.aquaria.
- Articles with attributions are copyrighted by their original authors.
- Copies of the FAQs can be made freely, as long as it is distributed at
- no charge, and the disclaimers and the copyright notice are included.
-
- Mirrors and Translations
-
- A list of offical alternate sites and language translations is
- available in this section.
-
- Introductory and Newsgroup FAQs (intro)
-
- * Welcome to Rec.aquaria.*: (posted weekly to rec.aquaria.*)
- The FAQs, Other Web Pages, Etiquette for Posting, Acronyms and
- Terms, and Common newsgroup Q&A.
- * Tables of Conversion Factors and other Random Data (*)
- * How to FTP (ftp-guide, The Long Version)
-
- Your First Freshwater Aquarium (beginner)
-
- * Contents and Foreword
- * Introduction
- * Before You Buy...
- Equipment -- What's Essential, and Finding Good Fish Stores.
- * Setting Up Your Tank...
- Preparing your Water, The Nitrogen Cycle, Basic Water Chemistry,
- and Useful Test Kits.
- * Adding Your Fish...
- About Fish Stress, Adding and Feeding the Fish, and Partial Water
- Changes.
- * Long Term Success...
- Combatting Algae and Snails, What to do About Vacation and Moving,
- How to Properly Euthanize a Fish, and Breeding Fish.
-
- Beginning Saltwater Aquaria (sw-begin)
-
- * Introduction
- * Setup
- * The Fish
- * Long Term Success
-
- Live Plants (plants)
-
- * Basic Questions and Answers
- * Quick Introductary Article
- * Listing of Common Plants
- * Lighting
- * CO2 Fertilization
- * Heating Cables
- * Resources for Aquatic Plants
-
- Disease, Algae and Snails (disease)
-
- * Common Freshwater Diseases
- * Table of Saltwater Diseases Diseases
- * Algae
- * Snails
-
- More Detail, Please...
-
- * Good (and Bad) Beginner Fish (firstfish)
- * Fish Breeding (posted with firstfish)
- * Filtration (filter)
- * Live Food (food)
-
- Other Resources (resource)
-
- * Books
- * Magazines
- * Societies and Organizations
- * Mail-order Supply Houses
-
- The FAQ Annex
-
- This is a collection of detailed articles that are either too detailed
- to be considered FAQs, or are older versions of material covered in
- the main FAQ. The Annex is available via WWW or FTP only, sorry.
-
- A more condensed version of this page with graphical things is also
- available.
-
-
- The FAQ Team
-
- Aquaria FAQ: Mirrors and Alternate Language Versions
-
- Home Site and US Mirror
-
- The official home site of the FAQ is http://faq.thekrib.com maintained
- by Erik Olson as part of the The Krib. The United States mirror site
- is http://www.actwin.com/fish/mirror/, as part of Mark Rosenstein's
- FINS. The mirror is updated regularly, so feel free to use either
- site.
-
- Non-English Versions
-
- * Finnish, at http://www.jmp.fi/~liaani/akvaario/aquafaq/ffaq.html
- translated by Reijo Nenonen
- * French, at http://www.multimania.com/cybaqua/faq, translated by
- Romuald Jouffrey (romuald at imaginet.fr), et. al.
- * Spanish, hosted along with the main FAQ as
- http://faq.thekrib.com/es/, translated by Alex Patak (alex.patak
- at jrc.it). Note that the translation is partial, and Alex is
- looking for volunteers to help complete the work.
- * Polish, at http://www.akwarium.org.pl/krib/, translated by Lukasz
- Kozicki (lkozicki at atelier.pl) as part of the official
- pl.rec.akwarium newsgroup site, operated by Robert Augustyn and
- others. Lukasz is looking for volunteers to help complete the
- work.
-
- We would like to see the FAQs available in any language possible!
- Currently, though, there are few completed translations. However,
- there are allegedly groups working on Italian, and Portugese
- translations. If you are interested in providing translation help, we
- will add a link here and/or provide a home for the pages on the home
- site. Drop us a line!
-
- Mirroring Policy
-
- In the interest of keeping the most up-to-date information available
- and in a consistent format, the maintainers ask that anyone wishing to
- copy the FAQs onto their web site, please instead use a link to the
- originating site or one of the official mirrors. If you want to become
- a mirror site in a country (or connectivity region) with no current
- mirror, please follow these guidelines:
- 1. ask us first (so we can add you to the list above)
- 2. refresh the mirror from the home site at least once a month
- 3. do not modify the files in any way (such as adding backgrounds,
- ads, etc.).
-
-
- FAQ: Major Revision History
-
- January 1999
- Added Spanish translation section (thanks to Alex Patak). Also minor
- resource changes.
-
- October 1998
- Moving the FAQ from Caltech. The disk is dying again, so the
- timing is right. Link pruning and updating, more equal emphasis
- on FINS mirror.
-
- August 1998
- Minor resource updates, changing URL of the Krib, AGA pages.
- Rebuild missing button.
-
- March 1998
- Minor changes to Newsgroup FAQ, resources, stronger message
- about web version, etc.
-
- January 1998
- Minor updates.
-
- October 1997
- FAQ Mailing list changes addresses, New Terse Front Page,
- superscripting and subscripting, new Mirrors and Translations
- Page, trim newsgroup page of superfluous info now in Mirrors
- page. - EO
-
- August 1997
- Much expanded live food FAQ, including addition of vinegar eel
- section. Corrected 6 months of links and club address changes.
-
- Spring 1997
- Plant Q&A cleanups, etc.
-
- February 1997
- Major plant resource cleanup
-
- July 1996
- Some minor nits, resource additions.
-
- April 1996
- New breeding article. Updated first fish. Updated turf FAQ and
- changed posting rules for the newsgroup split.
-
- March 1996
- Updates to the Setup and Longterm section of Saltwater FAQ.
-
- February 1996
- New section on GAC and Sterilization in Filtration FAQ.
-
- December 1995
- Updated aquarium society listing.
-
- August 1995
- Expansion of the live food FAQ by Don Wilson
-
- May 1995
- First release of the ``new'' FAQ.
-
- July 1994
- Work begins on the ``new'' FAQ.
-
- Up: Return to Main Map
-
- FAQ: Authors
-
- The FAQ Team
-
- Much of the material for this new FAQ comes from the FAQ Working
- Group. We spent nearly a year initially putting this collection of
- documents together, and hope you find them useful in your aquaria
- endevours. Since the FAQ is (we hope) an evolving document, we'd
- appreciate any and all suggestions for material we may have left out,
- factual changes, or just comments in general. We'd also appreciate
- volunteers to replace our burnt-out set of authors! Mail your comments
- or requests about the FAQs to faq at thekrib.com (please use this
- address for FAQ development-related topics only; pleas for help in
- diagnosing your sick fish will be cheerfully ignored or redirected to
- the newsgroups). Thank you.
-
- Erik Olson, editor
-
- List of contributers (in alphabetical order)
-
- These are the tireless souls that have written articles, provided
- material, or proofread. Feel free to shower them with praise and/or
- gifts. :)
-
- Oh yeah, since we've been getting spam using the addresses pulled from
- these pages, the addresses have been re-written to reduce this. You
- will have to replace ``at'' with ``@'' and remove the spaces if you
- want to send that person e-mail.
-
- Shaji Bhaskar
- bhaskar at bnr.ca
-
- Gary Bishop
- gb at cs.unc.edu
-
- George Booth
- booth at hplvec.lvld.hp.com
-
- Rick Clark
- rclark at bnr.ca
-
- Neil Frank
- nfrank at mindspring.com
-
- Bruce Hallman
- deadfish at netcom.com, bruce at hallman.org
- http://www.hallman.org
-
- Dean Hougen
- hougen at cs.umn.edu
- http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~hougen/
-
- Oleg Kiselev
- oleg at veritas.com
-
- Dustin Laurence
- laurence at cco.caltech.edu
-
- Matt McCabe
- mbmccabe at bronze.coil.com
-
- Davin Milun
- milun at cse.Buffalo.EDU
- http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~milun/
- Davin used to maintain the Cory search engine. it's dead now.
- :(
-
- Thomas Narten
- narten at VNET.IBM.COM
-
- Erik Olson
- erik at thekrib.com
- Erik maintains The Krib at http://www.thekrib.com, as well as
- some other pages.
-
- Jeff Pfohl
- pfohl at nucmar.physics.fsu.edu
- http://nucalf.physics.fsu.edu/pfohl
-
- Howard Rebel
- howardr at col.hp.com
- Howard is writing a set of goldfish pages at
- ftp://hpcsos.col.hp.com/html/howardr/goldfish/goldfish.html
-
- Mark A. Rosenstein
- mar at actwin.com
- Mark maintains F.I.N.S at http://www.actwin.com/fish/
-
- Thomas Sasala
- sasala at pop.dn.net
- http://home.dn.net/~sasala
-
- Anne Hull Seales
- workingsw at aol.com
-
- Elaine Thompson
- eethomp at home.com
- http://home.connectnet.com/eethomp/
-
- Betsy Wilson
- betsy at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
-
- Don Wilson
- wilsond at istar.ca
-
- Todd Zebert
- tmz at interport.net
- Todd keeps the Reef Trader's Outpost at http://www.rtop.com/
-
-