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Catfishes
the ultimate catfish information website. Period!
IG BSSW the International Barb, Tetra, Loach, and Catfish association.
All Catfish Species Inventory presents the NSF project to describe all living catfish species.
Aspidoras information about the genus Aspidoras (in German).
Jonathan W. Armbruster studies Loricariidae systematics.
L-Welse deals with various aspects of L-numbers (in German).
Scotcat the British view on catfish.
CorydorasWorld is a great website about Corydoradinae.
Welse.net another good website dealing with catfish (in German).
Plants
VDA AK Wasserpflanzen the German waterplant association (in German).
Aquatic Gardeners Association the American waterplant society.
Cryptocoryne pages & Lagenandra pages deal entirely with these plant genera.
Cryptocoryne-Lagenandra picture gallery (in German).
Curt's Echinodorus Homepage comes in several languages.
Wassermoos deals with the moss plants (in German).
Mecklenburger Wasserpflanzenfreunde local society (in German).
Wasserpflanzenfreunde online source for rare plants (in German).
Las Lucanas a waterplant nursery on the Canary Islands.
Hans Barth Dessau the legendary German waterplant nursery.
Tropica the Danish waterplant nursery.
Dennerle a German waterplant nursery (in German).
Out of Africa specializes on succulent plants from Africa and Madagascar.
Florida Aquatic Nurseries an American waterplant nursery.
Arizona Aquatic Gardens an online dealer in Arizona.
AquaSpot World an online dealer in Singapore.
E-aquaplant an online dealer in Thailand.
Livebearers & Killifishes
American Livebearer Association nice website for livebearers.
VDA AK Lebendgebärende Aquarienfische German Livebearer Working Group (in German).
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lebendgebärende Zahnkarpfen the German Livebearer Association (in German).
Viviparous is dedicated to livebearing fishes from around the world.
Xiphophorus is dedicated to this livebearer genus.
Deutsche Guppy Föderation the German Guppy Federation (in German).
Goodeiden a multi-language resource when it comes to these rare livebearers.
American Killifish Association great website for killifish information.
Deutsche Killifisch Gemeinschaft the German Killifish Association (in German).
International Killifish Association has a global internet presence.
Shene's Killies website of a Pittsburgh killifish breeder with some useful tricks.
Killifish of Western Africa a British killifish website.
Rainbowfishes
Australia New Guinea Fishes Association website for fishes from this continent.
Home of the Rainbowfish rainbowfish species of Australia and New Guinea
Internationale Gemeinschaft für Regenbogenfische all about rainbowfish (in German).
Gouramies
International Betta Congress is all about the famous Betta.
IBC Species Maintenance Program resource center for all Betta species.
Parosphromenus-Project all about the gourami genus Parosphromenus.
Internationale Gemeinschaft für Labyrinthfische follows the various labyrinth fishes (in German).
Tetras, Barbs & Loaches
Loaches online follows these bottom dwellers.
Schmerlen.de is another loach site (in German).
Danios and Devarios nice website about these cyprinids.
David Parichy's Lab studies molecular evolution and development of the Danionins.
Shrimps, Crayfishes, and Snails
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wirbellose Tiere great information on many inverts (in German).
Crusta 10 about crayfish, shrimps, crabs, and snails.
Garnelenforum lively discussions about inverts (in German).
ShrimpNow nice invert forum.
Gerd Voss on shrimps & crayfish (in German).
Shrimp tank by Siegfried Niemeyer, nice website on shrimp (in German).
Armored knights by Alexander Gottschalk (in German).
www.crystalred.de deals with the famous shrimp (in German).
Crystal Red shrimp were first bred by Hisayasu Suzuki, Nagoya, Japan.
1a-wirbellose offers various shrimps and crayfish.
Petshrimp.com another website dealing with shrimps.
The Apple Snail website dealing with these large freshwater snails.
Global Crayfish Resources Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Cichlids
American Cichlid Association is one of the largest fish clubs.
Ohio Cichlid Association organizes the annual Extravaganza.
Greater Chicago Cichlid Association
German Cichlid Association Deutsche Cichliden Gesellschaft (in German).
Lake Malawi Cichlids details this rich family and other fish in this African lake.
Cichlid Research Home Page by Ron Coleman, PhD.
The Cichlid Room Companion by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas.
Other fish groups
North American Native Fishes Association is dedicated to the appreciation, study, and conservation of the continent's native fishes.
Florida native fishes.
Potamotrygon a German website dedicated to freshwater stingrays (in German).
Scientific Societies & Institutions
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research at the National University of Singapore.
Ichthyology collection database of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Fish Ecology & Evolution at EAWAG, Switzerland.
ASIH American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
Aquaculture Program by the USDA Agricultural Research Service.
OCAD Ohio Center for Aquaculture Development.
Agricultural Marketing Resource Center at Iowa State University.
IFAS Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, University of Florida.
Group of Thomas Meinelt, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany.
Societies, Clubs & Associations
Columbus Area Fish Enthusiasts the Columbus OH fish club is under new leadership and on the way up!
Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies a central website of many different clubs.
Greater Cincinnati Aquarium Society GCAS is a fine club with great activities.
Greater Pittsburgh Aquarium Society, Inc. GPASI another club worthwhile visiting.
Potomac Valley Aquarium Society organized the All Aquarium Catfish Conventions 2004 & 2006.
Circle City Aquarium Club in Indianapolis, IN.
Raleigh Aquarium Society in Raleigh, NC.
Canadian Association of Aquarium Clubs organizes our Northern colleagues.
Federation of American Aquarium Societies lists societies in North and South America.
Aquaristik Szene Switzerland Clubs and Activities in my home country (in German).
VDA roof organization of German vivarium clubs (in German).
Zentralverband Zoologischer Fachbetriebe Pet Shop Association of Germany.
BNA German Federal Association for Professional Nature & Species Protection (in German).
IFOCAS International Federation of Online Clubs and Aquatic Societies.
The Nature Conservancy's mission is to preserve.
OFI Ornamental Fish International representing all sectors of the ornamental aquatic industry.
PIJAC Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council.
World Aquaculture Society (WAS)
Forums
CanadaPleco.com Forum
petfish.net Forum
The Cichlid Room Companion Forum
Discus Hans USA Forum
British Columbia Aquarium Forum
Exemplary Websites
Weichwasserfische by Michael Schlüter, great information on soft water fishes and others (in German & English).
Adventures in Aquascaping Tim Gross details a beautiful tank setup.
Aquarienbastelei by Gerd Arndt, fantastic website on useful gadgets for hobbyists (in German).
PecesCriollos by Stefan Körber presents the freshwater fishes of Argentina (in English, German, & Spanish).
Aquadings by Peter Hilt-Klein (aquarium.hiltklein.de) and Henry Buchmann, various fish related topics (in German).
Seriously Fish a UK based tropical fish website.
All about live foods by Christian Westhäuser on dwarf fish and live foods (in German).
Aquarium keeping without secrets by Olaf Deters, Diploma-Engineer, on Hamburg Mattenfilter technology,
the science behind substrates, and other topics (in German).
Aquarium keeping by Kai Alexander Quante details various shrimps and other species (in German).
Minifish by Gerald Gantschnigg, website about fish of less than 2" (5 cm) size (in German).
David's Nature House by David Ramsey.
Brian W. Coad's Personal Website.
Databases
Fishbase the ultimate source for fish related scientific information.
Catalog of Fishes by the California Academy of Sciences. All about scientific status of all fishes.
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World, global biogeography of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity.
EMBL Reptile Database provides information on the classification of all living reptiles.
BOLD Barcode of Life Data Systems.
Wikipedia the most versatile database.
ZFIN zebrafish model organism database.
Zebrafish Genome Resources at NCBI.
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature sets the rules for naming species.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species lists all species (animals and plants) that are threatened.
USDA Plants Database all about plants including threatened or invasive species.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes.
NatureServe leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.
PubMed includes over 16 million citations for biomedical related science articles back to the 1950.
Aquaculture Network Information Center electronic resources for aquaculture information.
Household Products Database Ever wondered what's in it? Health & safety information on household products.
Hippocampus is a commercial picture archive (partly in English).
WorldClimate for records of world climate data.
Wasser-Wissen (in German).
Legal Topics
USFWS US Fish & Wildlife Service.
USFWS Handbook of Aquatic Animal Health Procedures and Protocols.
USDA US Department of Agriculture, ePermits.
ODA Ohio Department of Agriculture.
FDA US Food and Drug Administration.
CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Fish Food
BrineShrimpDirect sells quality brine shrimp eggs and various feeds.
Artemia International, excellent service and quality product.
Cyclop-eeze sells the fabulous little orange copepods by Argent. Recommended.
Sanders was long the leading source of quality brine shrimp eggs.
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources manages the harvest of brine shrimp eggs.
Artemia Wholesale sells eggs from Kazakhstan. Supposedly very good but I have never tried them.
Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center by the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Hikari makes some of the best fish foods around.
Sera top quality German fish foods. Makes some of the best tablets around.
Tetra USA quality German fish foods sold in the USA, part of Spectrum Brands.
Tetra Germany the German trademark for quality flakes, part of Spectrum Brands.
JBL another good German fish food producer, unfortunately not available in the USA.
New Life International makes various fish foods.
Ocean Nutrition makes various fish foods.
HBH makes various fish foods.
OSI Ocean Star International makes various fish foods.
OmegaSea makes various quality fish foods.
Aquadine is another fish food maker.
Skretting global aquaculture feed.
SFB San Francisco Bay Brand frozen and freeze dried feed.
Bio-Aquatics sells frozen foods.
Aquatic Foods sells blackworms and frozen foods.
Beneficial Insectary sells parasitic wasps that make excellent foods for small fish and frogs.
Reed Mariculture offers live foods, mainly various planktons.
DT's Plankton Farm Live Marine Phytoplankton.
Diseases & Treatments
Fish diseases Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, University of Florida.
Aquatic Animal Health Research Laboratory of the USDA.
ADL Aquatic Diagnostics Ltd, UK.
A Description of Common Medications and their use by Christopher Burns.
Composition of Common Medications by Renate Husmann (in German).
Pharmacy Center by Mar Vista Animal Medical Center lists various medications.
NFP National Fish Pharmaceuticals.
FISHMAN CHEMICAL, LLC.
Aquarium Münster a German fish medication maker.
Lab Aquatics provides aquarium water testing.
Publishers & Magazines
Tetra Verlag publishes Aquaristik Fachmagazin and many great books.
NTV Natur und Tier Verlag.
Reptilia Spain, source for this great herp journal.
Chimaira various great vivaria books.
Dähne Verlag publishes Aquaristik Aktuelle Süsswasserpraxis & various books (in German).
Herpeton focuses on herp books.
Mergus publishes the famous Aquarium Atlases.
DATZ long the leading fish journal (in German).
Ulmer publisher of various animal and garden books.
Bede-Verlag picture books about fish (in German).
Aquarium live a fish journal (in German).
Aqualog books & newspaper for fish fanatics.
Animalbook online source for fish books.
Practical Fishkeeping great UK fish journal.
Steven Simpson Books great online fish book store in the UK.
NHBS natural history bookstore, great online selection from the UK.
Seahorses aquatic book shop by Jim Forshey.
Finley Aquatic Books by Lee Finley.
FishBookStore.com online source for fish book.
TFH Tropical Fish Hobbyist the legendary magazine.
FAMA another American fishmagazin.
Vivarium Lighting
Energy Savers Unlimited makes the Coralife series, now part of Central Garden & Pet.
JBJ lighting and other aquarium products.
Current makes the outer orbit and nova series lights.
HelloLights sells bulbs, fixtures and DIY kits.
elightbulbs sells all kinds of bulbs and light supplies.
AH Supply Aquarium Hobbyist Supply sells DIY kits.
Atlanta Light Bulbs sells all kinds of light bulbs.
GE General Electric light bulbs.
Philips Lighting light bulbs.
Osram-Sylvania light bulbs.
Suppliers & Manufacturers
Carolina Biological Supply Company, a company dedicated to serving science and math educators worldwide.
Science Kit teaching supplies.
Vernier Software & Technology.
Drs. Foster & Smith sell about anything. Great customer service that other companies could learn from!
Jehmco sells many great supplies for breeders. Recommended.
Aquarium Technology, Inc. makes the Hydro-Sponge filters.
AquaticEco-Systems sells hobby and professional aquaculture supplies.
Alita air pumps, the best on the market.
Hiblow USA air pumps.
KamAir another air pump maker.
Commodity Axis makes the ViaAqua powerheads.
AquaKeramik top-quality breeding and nano pottery.
Plecocaves makes and sells clay caves of various designs to breed your plecos or cichlids.
Southcentralcichlids make various caves, all handmade and nice.
CichlidBreeding is another source for caves.
CaribSea makes all kinds of substrates.
Feller Stone supplies great decorative stone.
Glasscages makes fish tanks, terrariums, and stands.
Aqueon used to be All-Glass, now part of Central Garden & Pet.
Oceanic makes tank setups, now part of Central Garden & Pet.
Perfecto Manufacturing part of Spectrum Brands.
AmeriGlas sells diamond drill bits.
Brunner Enterprises sells extruded aluminum profiles.
SMC Specialty Manufacturing Corp. sells valves.
Zoo Zajac Germany's largest pet shop (in German).
Steppan Koi for pond supplies and filter foam in Bottrop, Germany (in German).
Oase Teichtechnik garden pond technique (in German).
BioFilter Systems makes fluidized bed filters.
Bio-Con Labs aquatic design and consulting.
AS Aquaristik German distributor (in German).
Dohse Aquaristik Hobby and Dupla products.
Juwel Aquarium modern tanks and complete setups.
Amtra Aquaristik many good supplies for great tank.
Eheim the legendary filter maker.
Aqua Medic a German high tech supplier, US website.
Tunze high-tech aquarium ecology.
Schuran makes high quality nitrate filters.
Wiegandt makes various aquarium chemicals and UV filters.
ZC-Aquarientechnik culture reactors for live plankton (in German).
Hagen makes various pet supplies.
Penn-Plax makes various pet supplies.
Pentair Aquatics pumps and filtration.
Seachem makes feeds and aquarium chemicals.
API Aquarium Pharmaceuticals makes feeds and aquarium chemicals.
Kent Marine maker of aquarium supplies, now part of Central Garden & Pet.
Jungle Labs part of Spectrum Brands.
Marineland part of Spectrum Brands.
Aquarium Products maker of aquarium supplies.
Red Sea maker of aquarium supplies.
Kordon part of Novalek, Inc. makes the famous breathing bags.
Frabill fishing gear.
H2Ofilter my source for water purification products.
SpectraPure water purification products.
Bestfilters water purification products.
Matala USA pond supplies.
Mid-State Plastics sells all kinds of fish bags.
Aquacrylic makes acryl based products.
Superior Enterprise offers packing solutions.
Cameron Packaging, Inc. offers packing solutions.
Uline shipping supplies.
ProPak insulating shippers and containers.
The Container Store offers endless containers.
US Plastics Corp. various plastic containers.
Global Industrial sells all kinds of racks.
EZ Tube Boltless Construction System.
BuilderDepot for hard to find hardware pieces.
CafePress offers branding merchandise.
Garden Indoors and Magic Home Gardens sell hydroponics supplies.
DickBlick art supplies sells many helpful things that can be used in the fishroom.
Small Parts, Inc. for R&D and production needs.
Nature Travel
Understory Explorer for trips and conservation regarding Peruvian amphibians.
AqvaTerra EcoTravel in Uruguay.
Margarita Tours Eco Travel in Peru.
Amphibian & Reptile Links
Amphibian Species of the World by the American Museum of Natural History, Herpetology Department.
AmphibiaWeb by the University of California, Berkeley.
DGHT German Society for Herpetology (in German).
Tree Walkers International is dedicated to the conservation of amphibians.
INIBICO is dedicated to conservation research and its applications in Peru.
The Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center.
OhioAmphibians is dedicated to these critters in our state.
Understory Enterprises offers captive bred frogs from Peru.
SNDF Simply Natural Dart Frogs.
Dendrobase website covering species of the superfamily Dendrobatoidea.
dendrobates.org families Aromobatidae and Dendrobatidae.
Dendrobates World a frogsite in Dutch or English.
Tropical-Experience a dart frog site in The Netherlands.
Poison-Frogs another dart frog site from The Netherlands.
Froschkeller the family Dendrobatidae (in German).
Pumilio.com is about Dendrobates pumilio.
Saurian Enterprises by Patrick Nabors, dart frogs and geckos.
Herpetologic.net Sean Stewart's frog website.
House of Herpetology frog website by Tor Linbo & Trevor Anderson.
Quality Captives dart frog site.
Frye Brother's Frogs another dart frog site.
Dr. rer. nat. Axel Kwet is an Anuran researcher focused on Southern Brazil (in German).
Gerald Urquhart, Ph.D. researches Dendrobates.
Global Gecko Association (GGA) is dedicated to gecko enthusiasts worldwide.
Interessengruppe Phelsuma about the gecko genus Phelsuma (in German).
Aluterra offers aluminum terrariums (in German).
LANZO Herb Cages (mostly German).
E.N.T. Terrarientechnik offers many high-tech supplies (in German and English).
Black Jungle offers everything for the frog lover.
Hollow Creek Farms offers Bonsai supplies.
Exo Terra a manufacturer for herp supplies.
Zoo Med Laboratories another manufacturer for herp supplies.
Rep-Cal makes food supplements for amphibians and reptiles.
The Turtle Source offers a fine selection of turtles/tortoises.
Auction Sites
eBay USA Fish, Turtle & Frog supplies
eBay Germany Fish related items
Breeders, Importers, Exporters, Fishstores & Wholesalers
Aqua-Global Werneuchen, Germany. My favorite wholesaler.
AquaTarium imports rare cichlids and catfish from Brazil. Jens Gottwald operates with his own collector.
Aquarium Glaser one of the largest fish importers in Europe.
Bitter Exotics Friedrich Bitter specializes in dwarf cichlids and killifish from West Africa and South America.
Aquarium Dietzenbach sells imports and tankraised fish.
Mimbon Aquarium Roland Numrich offers a large selection of rare species.
Transfish Arthur & André Werner first imported the fabulous Hypancistrus zebra and many other L-numbers.
Stendker Discus Hatchery in Germany produces superb discus fish (in German, English, and Spanish).
Discus Hans USA distributes Stendker discus.
Universal Discus in California sells various discus.
Jack Wattley-Discus from the discus legend.
Gwynnbrook Farm's Discus Fish Hatchery.
Rehoboth Aquatics offers fish from West and Central Africa.
Florida Tropical Fish Farms Association FTFFA
The aFISHionados by Spencer Jack.
the wet spot in Portland, OR.
Hein Aquarium exports a variety of endemic fish from Myanmar (Burma).
All Oddball Aquatics Eric Bodrock sells top fish. Recommended.
Tony and Rose Orso sell some rare nano fish.
Frank's Aquarium specializes in rare shrimps and fish.
Frybabies offers various fish.
5-D Tropical is a Florida fish importer and producer.
Segrest Farms is another Florida fish importer
GloFish® a debatable addition to the fish scene.
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