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1. Aquarium Basics
1.1. Aquarium Beginner Guide
1.1.1. The First Aquarium
1.1.10. Plants and the New Hobbyist
1.1.11. Ich
1.1.12. How to Make Fish Thrive
1.1.12.1. Guideline Example
1.1.12.2. Unimportant Aquarium Parameters
1.1.13. Aquarium Fish Selection
1.1.14. Aquarium Maintenance
1.1.2. A Simple Way to Cycle
1.1.3. Fish Food
1.1.4. Water Parameters
1.1.5. Filters
1.1.6. Filter Media
1.1.7. Aeration
1.1.8. Stocking
1.1.9. “Brown Algae”
1.2. Falsehoods and Myths
1.3. False Marketing Claims
1.4. Sources of Data
1.4.1. Facebook Fake Accounts
1.5. Aquarium Options
1.5.1. Aquarium Examples
1.6. Aquarium Fast Fish Deaths
1.7. Aquarium Slow Fish Deaths
10. Diseases
10.1. Diseases in General
10.10. Black Spots
10.11. Tapeworms
10.12. Nematodes
10.12.1. Camallanus
10.12.2. Capillaria
10.13. Pests
10.13.1. Hydra
10.13.2. Detritus Worms
10.13.3. Planaria
10.13.4. Aquarium Leeches
10.13.5. Bryozoans and Stentors
10.14. Fish Lice
10.15. Dwarf Gourami Disease
10.16. Graphite Disease in Bettas
10.2. Skin Protozoans
10.2.1. All Protozoans
10.2.2. Ich
10.2.2.1. Ich in Depth
10.2.2.2. Ich Immunity
10.2.2.3. Ich Medication
10.2.2.4. Ich Medications in More Depth
10.2.2.5. Ineffective Ich Medications
10.2.2.6. Filtration of Ich
10.2.2.7. Ich and Heat
10.2.3. Velvet
10.2.4. Epistylis
10.2.5. Chilodonella and Costia
10.2.6. Tetrahymena
10.2.7. Cryptobia
10.3. Bacterial
10.3.1. Skin Ulcers
10.3.10. Red Mouth in Goldfish
10.3.11. Treating Bacteria
10.3.2. Mouth Rot
10.3.3. Duck Lips
10.3.4. Fin Rot
10.3.5. Saddleback
10.3.6. Red Blotches
10.3.7. White Eyes
10.3.8. Popeye
10.3.9. Red Gills
10.4. Fish Tuberculosis
10.4.1. Fish TB in Depth
10.4.2. Mycobacteriosis in Humans
10.5. Hexamita
10.6. Flukes
10.7. Fish Saprolegnia
10.8. Lymphocystis
10.9. Anchor Worms
11. Fish Disease Symptoms
11.1. Hole in the Head
11.1.1. Hexamita and HITH
11.1.2. Spots on Head
11.10. White Skin Blotches
11.11. Red Skin Blotches
11.12. Neon Disease
11.13. Slime Coat
11.14. Scaly Skin
11.15. Fish not Eating
11.16. Aggression
11.17. Black Death
11.18. Black Head Syndrome
11.19. Gas Bubble Disease
11.2. White Poop
11.3. Malawi Bloat
11.4. Dropsy
11.5. Hollow Belly
11.6. Swim Bladder
11.7. Shimmying
11.8. Twirling
11.9. Spinal Deformities
12. Treatment
12.1. Basics of Treatment
12.10. The Shotgun Approach
12.2. Treatments Summary
12.3. Quarantine Tanks
12.4. Ineffective Medicines
12.4.1. “Natural” Aquarium Medications
12.4.2. Salt
12.4.3. Aquarium Dyes
12.4.4. Formalin
12.4.5. Antiseptics
12.4.6. Furan and Sulfa
12.4.7. Quinine
12.5. Fish Don’t Drink
12.6. Sterilization
12.7. Making Medicated Food
12.8. Euthanizing a Fish
12.9. Avoiding Disease
13. Stocking
13.1. Stocking Opinions
13.2. Calculating Stocking Ratio
13.3. Lifespan of a Fish
14. Equipment
14.1. UV Sterilizers
14.1.1. UV in Depth
14.1.2 Selecting a UV Unit
14.10.Wood
14.11. Fish Electrocution
14.12. Silicone
14.13. Aquarium Electric Cost
14.14. Cleaning Old Aquariums
14.15. Aquarium Aesthetics
14.2. Substrates
14.2.1. Sand
14.2.2. Gravel
14.2.3. Buffering Substrates
14.2.4. Anaerobic Myth
14.2.4.1. Anaerobic Science
14.3. Rocks
14.4. Lights
14.4.1. Light Spectrums
14.4.2. Obsolete Standards
14.5. Piping
14.6. Pumps
14.7. Overflow Devices
14.8. Aquarium Heaters
14.9. Wavemakers
15. Planted Aquarium
15.1. Planted Aquariums in Depth
15.10. Hybrid Planted Aquariums
15.11. Many Fish Many Plants
15.12. Propagating Plants
15.13. Hau Planted Aquariums
15.14. Low Tech Planted Aquariums
15.15. Sterilizing Plants
15.16. Natural Aquarium
15.17. Father Fish Aquariums
15.2. Fish
15.3. Fish Limitations
15.4. Types of Planted Tanks
15.4.1. Planted Aquarium Examples
15.5. Aquarium Fertilizing
15.5.1. Ready Made Fertilizers
15.5.2. Fertilizer Programs
15.5.3. Estimative Index
15.5.4. NH4 and Tabs Fertilizer
15.5.5. DIY Epiphytic Fertilizer
15.5.6. Fish Food Fertilizer
15.5.7. DIY Fertilizers
15.6. Carbon Dioxide
15.6.1. Low Tech CO2
15.6.2. KH pH CO2 Relationships
15.6.3. High Tech CO2 Systems
15.6.4. CO2 From Food
15.6.5. Liquid CO2
15.6.6. Measuring CO2
15.7. Plant Substrates
15.8. Walstad Aquarium
15.9. High Tech Planted Aquariums
16. Aquarium Algae
16.1. Algae Biology
16.10. Water Mold
16.10.1. White Fuzz
16.11. Slime Mold
16.12. Red Spot Algae
16.13. A Few Oddities
16.2. Controlling Algae
16.2.1. Algae in Fish Only Tanks
16.2.2. Algae in High Tech Tanks
16.2.3. Algae in Low Tech Tanks
16.2.4. Algae Eaters
16.2.5. The Algae War
16.2.6. Chemical Algae Control
16.2.7. Chihiros Doctor
16.3. Thread Algae
16.4. Blue-Green Algae
16.5. Black Beard Algae
16.6. Staghorn Algae
16.7. Aquarium Green Water
16.8. Brown Algae
16.9. Green Spot Algae
17. Aquarium Fish Selection
17.1. Native Water Chemistries
17.10. Aquarium Shrimp
17.11. Discus
17.11.1. Discus Husbandry
17.11.2. Filtration for Discus
17.11.3. Water for Discus
17.11.4. Food for Discus
17.11.5. Discus Pheromones
17.11.6. Breeding Discus
17.11.7. Discus Photos
17.12. Axolotl
17.2. Biotopes
17.2.1. Blackwater Biotope
17.3. Blackwater Fish
17.4. Lake Malawi Cichlids
17.4.1. Malawi Aquariums
17.5. Goldfish
17.5.1. Types of Goldfish
17.5.2. Size of Goldfish
17.5.3. Stocking Goldfish
17.5.4. Goldfish Care
17.6. Guppies and Livebearers
17.7. Aquarium Bettas
17.8 Oscars
17.9. Nano Aquarium
18. Aquarium Maintenance
18.1. Aquarium Water Changes
18.1.1. Water Changes in Depth
18.1.2. Aquarium Water Change Math
18.1.3. Water Change Water
18.1.4. Softened, RO, DI, TDS
18.2. Drip Water Changes
18.3. Cleaning the Substrate
18.4. Cleaning a Filter
18.5. Heavy Stocked Maintenance
18.6. Old Tank Syndrome
18.7. Sick Tank Syndrome
2. Aquarium Cycling
2.1. Fish-less Cycling
2.10. Nitrogen Cycle
2.11. Inoculate for Cycling
2.12. Beneficial Bacteria
2.13. Cycling Test
2.14. The Mature Aquarium
2.15. Cycling a Planted Aquarium
2.2. Many Ways to Cycle
2.3. How I Cycle
2.4. Cycling with Ammonia
2.4.1. Dr. Tim’s Cycling Method
2.5. Aquarium Fish-in Cycling
2.5.1. Fish-in Cycling Science
2.5.2. Rapid Fish-in Cycling
2.6. Not Cycling at All
2.7. New Tank Syndrome
2.8. Bacteria-in-a-bottle
2.8.1. Bacteria in a Bottle in Depth
2.8.2. Sludge Removing Bacteria
2.9. Instant Cycling Chemicals
3. Fish Food
3.1. Insignificance of Food
3.1.1. Fish Food Science
3.2. Fish Diet Specializations
3.3. Amount of Fish Food
3.3.1. Amount in Depth
3.4. Gel Fish Food
3.5. Breaking Up Food
3.6. Dry Fish Food
3.6.1. Dry Fish Food in Depth
3.7. Banned Fish Food
3.8. Food and Malawi Bloat
3.9. Fish Food and Gunk
4. Temperature, pH, KH and GH
4.1. Importance of Water
4.10. ORP or Redox
4.11. Tank Syndromes
4.2. Aquarium Temperatures
4.3. Free Floating Bacteria
4.4. Aquarium pH
4.4.1. Aquarium pH is Not Important
4.4.2. Buffering the Water
4.4.3. Carbon Dioxide and pH
4.4.4. Dropping pH
4.4.5. Raising pH
4.5. Water Hardness
4.5.1. General Hardness
4.5.2. Carbonate Hardness
4.5.2.1. KH and Cycling
4.6. Salts in the Water
4.6.1. Trace Additives
4.7. Fish Tolerance to pH
4.8. “Stability” isn’t Important
4.8.1. Rapid Thermal and pH Shifts
4.9. Un-bagging Fish
5. Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate and Chlorine
5.2. Safe Ammonia Levels
5.2.1. Ammonia in Depth
5.2.3. High Ammonia
5.3. Safe Nitrite Levels
5.3.2. Nitrite in More Depth
5.4. Safe Nitrate Levels
5.4.1. Nitrate in Depth
5.5. Chlorine and Chloramine
5.5.1. Chlorination in Depth
5.5.2. Chloramines
5.5.2.1. Ammonia in Chloramine
5.5.3. Water Conditioners
5.5.3.1. Ammonia Detoxifying
5.5.3.2. Prime and Safe
5.5.3.2.1. Prime, Safe and Ammonia
5.5.3.2.2. Prime, Safe and Cycling
5.5.3.2.3. Prime, Safe and Sodium Dithionite
5.5.3.2.4. Prime, Safe and Chloramine
5.5.3.2.5. Prime Concentration
5.5.3.2.6. Safe Cannot be Made into Prime
5.5.3.3. Conditioner Chemistry
5.5.3.4. Cost of Conditioners
5.5.3.5. Conditioner Testing
5.5.3.6. Review of Conditioners
5.5.4. Stress Coat Products
6. Filtration
6.1. Mechanical Filtration
6.1.1. Cleaned Mechanical Filtration
6.1.2. Uncleaned Mechanical Filtration
6.2. Biofiltration
6.2.1. Detritus Explained
6.2.2. Brown Gunk
6.2.3. Cloudy Water
6.3. Over-filtration
6.4. Crystal-Clear Water
6.4.1. Crystal-Clear Water in Depth
6.4.2. Polishing Filtration
6.5. Water Flow Rate
6.5.1. Flow Function
6.5.2. Substrate as a Filter
6.6. Aquaponic Filtration
6.7. Nitrate Factory
6.8. Thorough Cleaning
6.8.1. Filter Cleaning Tests
6.9. Tap Water Rinsing
7. Filter Media
7.1. Review of Media
7.1.1. Cost of Filter Media
7.1.2. Media Function
7.1.3. Filter Media Test
7.1.3.1. Ammonia Oxidizing Test
7.1.3.2. Water Clarity Test
7.2. Individual Media List
7.2.1. Polyester Floss
7.2.10. Growstone
7.2.11. Ceramics
7.2.12. Matrix
7.2.13. Clay Balls
7.2.14. BioHome Filter Media
7.2.2. Foam Media
7.2.3. K1 Media
7.2.4. Pumice Perlite
7.2.5. Gravel
7.2.6. PP EVA Pads
7.2.7. Bio Balls
7.2.8. Pot Scrubbers
7.2.9. Lava Rock
7.3. Media Volume
7.4. Chemical Filtration Media
7.4.2. Activated Carbon
7.4.3. Ion-Exchange Resins
7.4.4. Zeolite
7.4.5. Phosphate Remover
7.4.6. Purigen
7.4.7. Poly-Filter
7.4.8. Chemi-pure
7.5. Denitrifying Media
7.6. Media Surface Area
8. Review of Aquarium Filters
8.1. Review of Filters
8.1.1. Filter Test
8.2. Hang-on-the-back Filters
8.3. Canister Filter
8.3.1. Canisters in Depth
8.3.2. Do-it-yourself Canisters
8.3.3. FX Series Canister Filters
8.4. Sponge Filters
8.5. Under Gravel Filters
8.5.1. Under-Gravels in Depth
8.5.2. DIY Undergravel Filter
8.6. Sump Filters
8.6.1. Sumps in Depth
8.6.2. Static Sump Filters
8.6.3. Trickle Filters
8.6.4. Wet-Dry Filters
8.6.5. Fluidized Beds
8.6.6. Do-it-yourself Sumps
8.6.7. Foam Sump
8.7. Other Filters
8.7.1. Sand Filters
8.7.2. High Performance Filters
8.7.3. Hamburg Matten Filter
8.7.4. Diatomaceous Earth Filters
8.7.5. DIY Bottle Filters
8.7.6. Small Filters
8.7.7. Bottom of the Tank Matten
8.7.8. Small DIY Filters
8.8. Filter and Media Design
8.8.1. Sizing Filters in Depth
8.9. Anaerobic Reactors
8.9.1. Biocenosis Reactor
8.9.2. A Feasible Reactor
8.9.3. Assimilatory Denitrification
9. Aeration
9.1. Aeration in Depth
9.2. Turbulence and Aeration
9.3. Air Stones
9.3.2. Cleaning Air Stones
9.4. Skimmers and Spray Bars
9.5. Aeration and Temperature
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1. Aquarium Basics
2. Aquarium Cycling
3. Fish Food
4. Temperature, pH, KH and GH
5. Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate and Chlorine
6. Filtration
7. Filter Media
8. Aquarium Filters
9. Aeration
10. Diseases
11. Fish Disease Symptoms
12. Treatment
13. Stocking
14. Equipment
15. Planted Aquarium
16. Aquarium Algae
17. Aquarium Fish Selection
18. Aquarium Maintenance
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