A. Major Aquarium Hubs

A. Major Aquarium Hubs. (alphabetically by URL)  
 
**Age of Aquariums:  maintained by Marcos Avila since 1997. A handsome wide-ranging, much-visited, highly interactive site, with an international reach. Many excellent photos (especially Marcos' own planted tanks) articles, interactive photo galleries with brief contributed fish and plant descriptions, frank product and book *reviews, and forums.
 
All Tropical Fish: though the emphasis is on marine aquaria, there are articles on freshwater fishkeeping; the "Topsites" section includes links to many aquaristic sites.
 
Aquamaniacs:  (Temporarily off-line, April 2011) High quality design and reliable information characterize this general site, with *articles in the "e-zine" and a forum.
 
Aquarank: The 100 "most-visited" aquatic sites may have websites new to you.
 
Aquarticles: Dozens and dozens of articles on all aspects of fishkeeping, reprinted from aquarium society newsletters.
 
***AquariaCentral:  A major hub, home of **Help Forums,one of the web's three most active aquarium discussion boards, knowledgeable and self-critical but friendly. FishChatCentral offers on-topic chat monitored with a light hand. *Species Profiles are searchable by scientific or common name. Some original articles, with Shane Linder on catfish and Mike McEwan heading the list. Splash! links are separated into useful categories, with the briefest self-describing blurbs and a popularity rating (unrated or rated 10, generally). AC has developed from Mike McEwen's pioneering "TankBusters" site.
 
Aquarium Wiki.
 
**Aquatic Community: AC Tropical Fish has been on-line since 2004, expanded to include coldwater and marine fishes. Large and growing library of articles, from simplest to advanced. Detailed species reports.
 
Badman's Tropical Fish: On-line since 1996,  Badman's site is highly interactive, with many polls and forums
 
BioFilter aquatic library:  Since 2000, a reviewed selective index of the Internet's sites on aquaculture and aquariums. 
 
***FishBase: This is the electronic equivalent of W.N. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes, 1998. It's a series of very concise profiles of fishes as well as your portal to the professional literature.
 
*FINS (Fish Information Sevice):  since 1993, Mark Rosestein's useful repertory of FAQs, *indexes of species by common or by scientific name, directories of public aquaria, associations and clubs, etc., articles and links both marine and freshwater.
 
Fishgeeks:  Membership forum, pix gallery and on-line aquarium store, etc. in a gaudy format. Extended *FAQs contain archived articles, many from aquarium society newsletters, covering a variety of subjects, slanted to the beginner.
 
*FishLink Central: Mark Barnett maintains this long-established guide to aquarium resources: the largest inclusive hub of links, in 24 categories, one of the best ways to turn up new and up-dated web pages. Photo gallery (500 species), aquatic shareware, archive of collected articles, forum, bookstore, etc.
 
***The Krib:  Praise is superfluous. The original (since 1994) and single most essential Web resource of beginner and advanced freshwater aquarium info. Links limited to the "very excellent." Content emphasized over design gives this site its functional university biolab look. Archived **usenet postings (since 1991) and **mailing-list discussions give you the immortal actual words of the most knowledgable aquarists, while webmaster Erik Olson keeps to the background. Major headings include planted aquaria, fish (emphasizing *Apistos and other dwarf cichlids) and *invertebrates, diseases, *culturing live food, *water chemistry plus plus plus...
 
**Krib FAQs: Beginner and intermediate questions are archived here, thanks to the Usenet newsgroups collectively referred to as rec.aquaria*. Most fishkeepers you meet on the Web will take it for granted you've read the relevant section here before you ask a question.
 
Microcosm:Aquarium Explorer: Reef to Rainforest: the site maintained by Coral magazine has a freshwater section with some useful basic articles and fish profiles and in the Freshwater BioGroups section, invertebrates and plants as well.
 
***Practical Fishkeeping: the premier UK magazine Practical Fishkeeping is back on-line as of January 2010 with one of the Internet's largest archives of illustrated features and brief articles on fish both  familiar and new, fishkeeping, tropical biotopes and aquascaping, written by many trusted names like George Farmer and Heiko Bleher.
 
***Seriously Fish: now the best, most comprehensive and accurate concise data on keeping fish, species by species, including many rarely imported ones, is located here. Founded in the UK in 2007, this site caters to the serious-minded adult fishkeeper.
 
***Tropical Fish Hobbyist:  The major US monthly magazine maintains a deep website that include current and back-issue articles,most of them teasers for subscriptions but some at full length, a selection of olumns by the magazine's usual columnists,  blogs, a couple of dozen species profiles, press releases from manufacturers and a well-attended forum.
 
***The Tropical Tank:  Excellent design, dependable detailed illustrated *articles, some of the Web's best **reviews of products, water conditioners, etc., a fish index, a forum, all presented by an experienced UK hobbyist keeping some unusual fishes. Periodically updated.
 
*WetWebMedia: Bob Fenner's huge resource based on marine tanks and reefkeeping, but including ponds and freshwater systems. Extensive articles and FAQs give sound though highly colored information over a wide range of topics.
 
Electronic Zoo: Aquatic links by category.