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Aquarium Management
Acclimation: A Better System August 95
Activated Carbon Process August 98
Activation and Reactivation—All Carbons are NOT Created Equal! September 98
All Washed Up? April 96
An African Tropical Fish Community February 93
Aquarium Basic Concepts, Part 1 August 00
Aquarium Basic Concepts, Part 2 September 00
Aquarium Basic Concepts, Part 3 October 00
Aquarium Basic Concepts, Part 4: Filtration November 00
Aquatic Chemistry Terms Explained: Alkalinity, Hardness, and pH August 98
Are You Hooked on Water Changes Yet? January 98
ATS in Action: One Year with an Algae Turf Scrubber March 00
Beyond Gravel December 97
Biological Activated Carbon Process for Aquarium and Pond Water Filtration May 98
Brackish Basics August 93
Build a True Biological Filter  
Calcium for a Healthy Reef November 96
Canister Filters, An Introduction to February 92
Choosing the Right Filter Components July 97
Current Saltwater Practice February 92
Decorating with the Incidental Aquarium August 99
Different Uses of Carbon November 98
Doin’ it Nature’s Way December 98
Dream Tank April 99
Exposing phallacies May 98
Exposing phallacies, Part 2 June 98
Fiber Optics: A New Light in the Aquarium February 90
Filtration in the Guppy Tank June 92
Fluidized Bed Biological Filtration September 95
Freshwater Ammonia: The Silent Killer February 96
Geographic Aquariums (parts 1-5) October 93
Green Water in the Marine Aquarium February 92
Health Care for Marine Aquaria April 93
Heart of the Marine Aquarium July 98
How to Evaluate a Protein Skimmer January 91
Is “Natural Filtration” Natural? November 98
It’s in the Can: A Look at Canister Filters November 00
Light in the Marine Aquarium May 93
Lighting 101: Fish-Only Tanks December 00
Live Glass—A Good Idea? November 00
Live Rock A la Mode August 99
Magic of Microbes January 97
Maintaining, Tropical and Subtropical Forest, Mimagoniates (Part 2) July 96
Maintaining Tropical and Subtropical Forest-Adapted Species June 96
Major, Macro, and Micronutrients July 98
Making Waves September 97
Marine Algae: Friends and Foes (Part 2) October 96
Marine Algae: Friends and Foes September 96
Micro and Slime Algae: Are They Driving You Crazy Too? June 95
Mistakes You Don’t Have to Make November 99
Modern Sea Salts October 92
MONSTER Tank! June 98
Multi-Use Powerheads January 96
Natural Marine Aquarium April 91
New Challenge: The Paludarium January 93
Ozonation July 99
Pass the Salt! August 92
Plants vs. Biological Filtration November 00
Problems with Aquarium Lighting January 91
R/0—All You Need to Know November 98
R/O—All You Need to Know, Part 3: Applications January 99
R/O—All You Need to Know, Part 2, How the Process Works December 98
Real Reef February 93
Refuting Foam Fractionation Falsehoods July 98
Resins & Ion Exchange October 98
Right Now! December 98
Semi-Open Versus Semi-Closed Reef Systems January 92
Sense of Community December 97
Starting a Marine Tank, Part 1 September 96
Starting a Marine Tank, Part 2 October 96
Starting a Marine Tank, Part 3 November 96
State-of-the-Art—Designing a Reef System October 99
Stray Voltage April 99
Technological Overkill? Skimmers and Trickle Filters: Pros and Cons February 92
Thriving High-nitrate Marine Aquarium October 93
Time-Honored Water Treatment—Peat September 98
To Test or Not to Test—or Better Yet, HOW to Test October 98
Tools for the New Aquarist January 97
Understanding Aquarium Water Quality October 94
Understanding DH Without a Ph.D November 95
Understanding pH Without a Ph.D July 95
Understanding Ultraviolet Sterilization July 95
Understanding Undergravel Filters June 91

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Aquatic Gardening
A Pond? Yeah, Why Not? August 97
Aeolus Decemeber 96
African “Spears”: The Anubias Species October 94
Algae Wars May 00
Aquarium Favorites, The Genus Hygrophila August 91
Aquarium Plants, Some New and Decorative November 92
Aquariums for a New Millennium January 00
Aquatic Ferns and Mosses June 00
Are Anubias for You? July 99
Attractive Freshwater Red Alga, Hildenbrandia rivularis October 96
Birth of Spring October 96
Border Planting of the Garden Pond February 90
Building that Dream Koi Pool March 98
Building the “Earth-Framed” Concrete Garden Pool August 96
Care and Propagation of Aponogeton boivinianus February 91
Caribbean (or Tropical West Atlantic) Macro-Algae Use in Marine Aquariums February 98
Caulerpa Algae in the Marine Aquarium April 00
CO2 for Landscaped Aquariums June 00
CO2 Supplementation in the Planted Tank March 96
Collecting Native Aquarium Plants April 96
Colorful Aquarium Plants of the Loosestrife Family January 94
Cork Aquascaping June 00
Crimson Autumn August 96
Crypts in the Aquarium March 95
Cultivating Aponogeton elongatus June 99
Double Red Swordplant, A New Variety of Echinodorus osiris October 91
Dream Ponds October 93
Dream Ponds II June 94
Easy Plants for the Pond May 00
Echinodorus multiflorus August 99
Fishes for the Garden Pond June 92
Floating and Submersed Plants for the Garden Pond March 93
Focus on Aponogeton February 00
Focus on Swordplants September 99
Freshwater Sponges: a Possible Garden Pond Inhabitant? April 97
Garden Pond Filtration (parts 1-3) May 03 - July 93
Garden Ponds that Work March 94
Getting Started with Plants January 95
Glittering Shores of Paradise June 96
Garden Ponds—My Way March 96
Great Pond Water August 99
Growing a “Vic” in Southern California May 90
Growing Barclaya longifolia September 91
Home-Grown Aquarium Plants March 92
Hornwort—A Hardy Native June 96
How to Control Water Quality in the Garden Pond April 92
Installation of a Ready-Made Pond July 99
Introduction to Water Lily Cultivation July 95
Java Fern: The Perfect Aquarium Plant December 95
Keeping U.S. Native Fishes in Ponds May 98
Making Light of Lanterns March 98
Marine Macroalgae (photos) March 98
Most Useful Crypts October 95
My Favorite Frogbits April 90
Old-Fashioned Pond October 99
Palette of Plants May 91
Paludarium: The Jungle at Home March 91
Paradise by the Pond June 99
Planning That Pond July 97
Pond Filtration April 99
Pool Lanes to Pond Lilies May 97
Preventing Rotgut in Koi: Seasonally Correct Feeding of Koi September 00
Propagating Aquatic Plants at Home January 97
Red Algae: Branching its Way into the Aquarium September 97
Replicating the Underwater World December 97
Rocks, Gems, Carp, and Koi August 00
Selection of Aquarium Plants February 98
Some like it Cool April 97
Some Lovely Hybrid Swordplants January 96
Spiral Water Trumpet April 91
Spring into Pond Maintenance April 97
Spring Shade November 96
Starting a Garden Pond, Part 1 June 91
Starting a Garden Pond, Part 2 July 91
Starting a Garden Pond, Part 3 August 91
Swamp Plants for Aquaria and Terraria August 90
Swarm of the Stream July 96
Temperate Zone Tropics March 94
The Dollar Sunfish, Lepomis marginatus April 97
The Enchanted Water Lily Garden June 94
The Siamese Water Cup September 93
The Yellow Pond Lilies April 93
Ungilded Lilies April 00
Water Gardening in Miniature July 00
Water Lilies of the Genus Nymphaea March 91
Winter in the Garden Pond January 92
Your First Garden Pond March 96

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Collecting and Exploring
Adolph Schwartz’s Notes on the Amazon March 99
Adventures in Southern Mexico: Veracruz and Oaxaca August 96
Anecdotes of an Aquarist in West Africa, Part 1 May 98
Anecdotes of an Aquarist in West Africa, Part 2 June 98
Anecdotes of an Aquarist in West Africa, Part 3 August 98
Anecdotes of an Aquarist in West Africa, Part 4 February 99
Anecdotes of an Aquarist in West Africa, Part 5 April 99
Bermuda Fish Odyssey September 98
Biodome de Montreal December 97
Catfishes of the Pantanal May 93
Characoids of the Pantanal August 93
Chasing Discus in the Rio Negro October 91
Chasing Rainbows in Irian Jaya—Again! February 93
Chasing Unknown Fishes in French Guiana February 91
Children of Project Piaba March 97
Cichlasoma istlanum: A Gem from Mexico July 00
Cichlid Collecting in South Florida November 98
Cichlids of the Lacandon Rainforest December 00
Cichlids of the Pantanal June 93
Clipperton: The Forgotten Island September 95
Collecting Joturo December 94
Collecting Livebearers in Cuba March 93
Collecting Mantis Shrimp September 00
Collecting Specimens for the John G. Shedd Aquarium May 90
Cuba: The Land of Castro, Cichlids, And Cigars September 93
Decline of Coral Reefs in Zanzibar June 96
Dive in Lake Malawi March 97
East Kalimantan, Borneo: The Search for Freshwater Dolphins May 99
Enchanting Maldive Islands August 90
Exotic Sea Images from Grand Cayman October 99
Exploring Belize, Part 1 April 00
Exploring Belize, Part 2 May 00
Exploring Belize, Part 3 June 00
Exploring Enchanting Southern Mexico June 96
Exploring Florida Coral Reefs April 91
Eye of the Storm: Africa’s Great Rift Valley February 00
Fish Farming in Singapore, Part 1 January 97
Fish Farming in Singapore, Part 2 February 97
Fish Farming in Singapore, Part 3 March 97
Fishes of the Balboan Jungle April 90
Fishes of the Volcano July 96
Flora, Fauna, and Fishes of the Galapagos Islands October 94
Fun Finding Fundulus and Other Finny Floridians June 96
Gathering Driftwood in the Amazon August 99
Into the Igarapes February 94
Last Frontier January 96
Looking Back, Part 1: the Period Prior to the Discovery of the Cardinal Tetra May 97
Looking Back, Part 2: the Discovery of the Cardinal Tetra June 97
Looking Back, Part 3: the Discus Search July 97
Looking Back, Part 4 August 97
Looking Back, Part 5 September 97
Pantanal, Nature's Gift to Man April 93
Pilbara Rainbows October 99
Pilgrimage to the Cradle of Evolution November 95
Ramu Diary February 91
Red Sea’s Gulf of Eilat June 96
Search for Skiffia francesae November 96
Searching for Wild Asian Arowanas in the Kapuas River August 99
Secrets of the Musandam February 93
Sierra de El Abra of Northeast Mexico: Blind Fish March 96
Sleepless in Bintuni September 94
Sleepless in Bintuni, Part 2 October 94
Swimming Nose-to-Nose with the Manatees September 00
Trekking for Cichlids in Uganda August 95
Tropical Fish Farming in Singapore December 96
Tropical Odyssey in Costa Rica December 95
Tropical Odyssey Through Costa Rica April 96
Visit to Brazil’s Xingu River May 96
White Mother Earth: Iryan Jaya Part 1 August 97
White Mother Earth: Iryan Jaya Part 2 September 97
White Mother Earth: Iryan Jaya Part 3 October 97
Wild! F.N.Q.: A Land of Contrasts January 96
Yucatan Peninsula, Part 1: the State of Quintana Roo April 97
Yucatan Peninsula, Part 2: the State of Yucatan May 97
Yucatan Peninsula, Part 3: the State of Campeche June 97

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Fish Health
Anchorworms: Diagnosis and Treatment May 96
Aquarium Math 101: Changing Water with Basic Arithmetic May 00
Are Our Discus Populations Threatened by a Giant Flagellate? September 91
Basic Approaches to Fish Health July 99
Bloaters and Floaters September 95
Chemical Treatment of Discus Diseases April 91
Collecting and Maintaining Tubifex Worms March 91
Columnaris: The Most Common Aquarium Fish Disease? March 92
Common Parasites of Discus January 91
Dealing with HLLS January 96
Feeding Feeders and Other Foods for Thought February 92
Fly Larvae as Aquarium Fish Parasites! January 91
Parasites in the Aquarium May 00
Please Don’t Feed Fish Fish: Thinking about Feeder Fish April 00
Quarantine Your Fish January 00
Treat to Cure: Overdosing is Better than Underdosing April 00

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Foods and Feeding
Earthworms: Fab Fish Food July 00
Feeding Fry: How Big is Too Big? June 94
Feeding Marine Fishes November 98
Guppy Feeding: A Better Mousetrap January 90
Harvesting Brine Shrimp in California April 91
Little White Worms! June 92
Microworms: Good Food in a Small Package January 90
New Science in Aquarium Foods December 98
On Raising Crickets: Facts and Folklore May 95
Organic Cuisine February 99
Raising Artemia salina March 90
Raising Daphnia in Quantity May 90
Raising Grindal Worms for Aquarium Fishes January 91
Raising Marine Plankton April 90
Rearing Fruitflies to Feed Your Fishes October 90
Some Live Foods for Aquarium Fishes February 93
Tubifex Worms for Fishes June 99
What Do They Eat? February 92
Whiteworms Are Easy January 97

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Freshwater Fishes
Add Some Sole to Your Tank Jun-96
Adoptions in the Aquarium World May-99
Advanced Plecology—A Return to the Beginning Aug-98
Adventures with Old Blue Eyes Oct-98
African Tigerfish Sep-99
Albinism in the Banded Knifefish, Gymnotus caropo Aug-96
Albino Form of Paracyprichromis nigripinnis Jan-97
Albino Grass Carp Feb-97
Albino Oscar Sep-91
Algae Specialist: Petrotilapia tridentiger Sep-93
All I Want for Christmas is Synodontis angelicus Jan-00
Altolamprologus calvus: Lake Tanganyika’s Stealth Cichlid May-00
Amazing Amiidae—Bowfins of North America Sep-98
Amazon Discovery: A New Discus Color Form Feb-93
Ameca splendens, The Butterfly Goodeid, Jun-92
America’s Spectacular Natives—The Ever-Popular Sunfish Feb-91
An Interesting Oscar from the Lower Rio Branco, Brazil Sep-96
An Mbuna from Nicaragua: Neetroplus nematopus Aug-00
An Old Favorite, The T-Barb Apr-91
An Oscar Tale Dec-94
An Unusual Catfish: Corydoras latus Nov-94
Anabantoid Aquarium Aug-91
Anabas: A Fish Out of Water Jul-96
Angelfish Here, There, and Everywhere Feb-95
Annual Killifishes of Venezuela, Part 1 Jan-92
Annual Killifishes of Venezuela, Part 2 Feb-92
Aphyosemion rectogoense—a Rare Find from Gabon Aug-98
Apistogramma in the Community Aquarium, The Genus Jan-92
Apistogramma linkei: The Yellow-Breasted Apisto Jan-96
Aplocheilus chevalieri, A Gentle Panchax Sep-95
Archocentrus: Small Package, Big Rewards Dec-97
Asian Arowana: King of the Aquarium Aug-95
Aulonocara: Interesting Peacocks Jun-99
Back to the Wild, Again Feb-94
Banjo Cats Playing a Different Tune Jan-90
Barb?, Why Not Try a Mar-92
Barbs of Mystery Aug-94
Basic Piranha Behavior Jul-92
Beautiful Big Bruiser: Nandopsis managuensis Oct-96
Bedotia geayi Feb-00
Beginning With Bettas Mar-90
Begrudging the Gudgeon Sep-98
Beloved Oscar Jul-00
Best Disaster in History Nov-98
Betta Beautiful Jan-00
Betta foerschi—A Jewel from Kalimantan Sep-98
Betta imbellis: Something Special! Feb-96
Betta persephone Aug-00
Betta picta: An Interesting Mouthbrooder Nov-95
Betta picta: The Mouthbrooding Betta Dec-94
Betta picta—the Javanese Fighting Fish Oct-90
Bettas, Starting Out Right With Sep-92
Beyond Splendens: The Betta coccina Group Apr-98
B-I-G Barb Sep-99
Big, Beautiful Blues Jul-97
Black Ghost Apr-96
Black Ruby Barb: an Aquarium Gem Mar-97
Black Ruby Barbs: Puntius nigrofasciatus Nov-99
Black-spotted Filament Barb, Puntius filamentosus Apr-90
Bleeding Heart Platy Apr-90
Bleeding Heart Tetra, Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma May-00
Blind Cave Tetras of the Sierra Madre Oriental Dec-94
Blood Tetra, Hyphessobrycon eques Mar-00
Blood-Red Parrot: Hybrid or Mutation? Dec-00
Blue Emperor Tetra Jul-96
Blue Emperor Tetra, Inpaichthys kerri Jan-91
Blue Gourami: An Old Favorite Still Going Strong Apr-93
Blue Jack Dempsey Apr-00
Blue Zebras from Lake Malawi Apr-99
Blue-eyes, Priapella Sep-90
Blue-Striped Killifish, Rivulus xiphidus Jul-96
Bold Beautiful Bettas Dec-97
Bony-Tongue Fishes—Arowanas, Arapaima & Featherback Jun-98
Bornean Chocolate Gourami Aug-90
Botia macracanthus: The Enigmatic Clown Loach Aug-94
Botia: Sounds Good and Looks Great! Mar-99
Brazilian Law and Fish Collecting in Brazil Feb-00
Breeder's Surprise: Gold Aphyosemion gardneri Jan-95
Breeding and Caring for Silver Dollars Sep-99
Breeding and Rearing Mimagoniates Species Jun-97
Breeding Apistogramma macmasteri Jan-97
Breeding Astatotilapia bloyeti May-00
Breeding Aulonocara jacobfreibergi Oct-93
Breeding Discus Sep-91
Breeding Experiences with Trichogaster leeri Dec-98
Breeding Farlowellas Feb-90
Breeding Firemouths Apr-93
Breeding Geophagus brasiliensis Mar-97
Breeding Geophagus steindachneri Feb-96
Breeding Goldfish Mar-00
Breeding Haplochromis annectens Nov-94
Breeding Haplochromis compressiceps Aug-90
Breeding Haplochromis livingstonii Apr-93
Breeding Haplochromis nigricans Jan-94
Breeding Melanochromis vermivorus Sep-96
Breeding Moss-green Tiger Barbs Jul-93
Breeding Nagy’s Licorice Gourami, Parosphromenus nagyi Oct-90
Breeding Pearl Gouramis: Problematic, or Child’s Play? Apr-94
Breeding Piranhas in a Small Aquarium Mar-93
Breeding Polypterus endlicheri Oct-95
Breeding Pseudotropheus tropheops, a Successful Mouthbrooder Jun-90
Breeding Sawbwa resplendens, the Asian Rummy-nose Sep-93
Breeding Synodontis multipunctatus Jun-95
Breeding the African Butterfly Cichlid, Anomalochromis thomasi Jan-93
Breeding the Albino Ancistrus Sep-96
Breeding the Albino Form of Julidochromis ornatus Jan-97
Breeding the Black Neon Tetra Apr-93
Breeding the Bumblebee Catfish, Microglanis iheringi Sep-97
Breeding the Dwarf Bushynose Pleco Jul-96
Breeding the Flier Cichlid, Cichlasoma centrarchus Mar-90
Breeding the Gold Asian Arowana Jan-92
Breeding the Gold Piranha, Serrasalmus gibbus Jun-90
Breeding the Largest Pearlfish, Cynolebias elongatus Jul-94
Breeding the Orange Chromide, Etroplus maculatus Aug-96
Breeding the Redbreast Acara, Laetacara dorsigera Oct-95
Breeding the Sunset Gourami Jul-93
Breeding the T-Barb Jun-94
Breeding the Thin-banded Barb, Capoeta semifasciolatus Jul-90
Breeding the Twinspot Mystus Cat Aug-94
Breeding the White Cloud Mountain Minnow, Tanichthys albonubes Jul-91
Breeding Thysochromis ansorgii Feb-96
Brilliant Rasbora, Rasbora borapetensis Sep-91
Brilliantly Yellow Albino Peacock Sep-91
Bristlenosed Plecos: Loveable Monsters Nov-99
Brown Blue Badis Feb-91
Brown Spike-tailed Paradisefish, Pseudosphromenus dayi Mar-91
Buenos Aires Tetra, Hemigrammus caudovittatus Jul-91
Captive Care and Maintenance of the Violet Goby, Gobioides broussonetti Jul-95
Captive Maintenance of Darters II Aug-00
Captive Maintenance of Darters Feb-00
Captive Spawning of Ancistrus ranunculus May-98
Care and Breeding of Beckford’s Pencilfish May-94
Care and Breeding of Cynolebias whitei and C. constanciae Feb-91
Care and Breeding of Jenynsia lineata Aug-95
Care and Breeding of Neolamprologus leleupi Feb-00
Care and Breeding of Parasphromenus deissneri May-94
Care and Breeding of Tateurndina ocellicauda Feb-97
Care and Breeding of the Black-finned Pearl Killie Sep-91
Care and Breeding of the Black-nosed Sturisoma Jan-94
Care and Breeding of the Madagascar Rainbowfish Feb-90
Care and Breeding of Uarus Sep-95
Care and Maintenance of ‘Cichlasoma’ (Theraps) argentea Jul-96
Care and Spawning of Callichthys callichthys Mar-91
Caring for the Iridescent Shark Sep-96
Catfishes, Little Rascals: Spiny and Suckermouth Sep-92
Catfishes: Dwellers of Dim Places May-91
Cats in the Cradle Nov-98
Central Longear Sunfish, Lepomis megalotis, Aquarium Mar-96
Chaca chaca, Successful Spawning of Mar-92
Challenging Dwarf Cichlid—Nanochromis nudiceps May-90
Chameleon Betta, Betta foerschi Jun-90
Charming Pseudotropheus demasoni Aug-98
Chasing Rainbows: Adventures with Darters Apr-91
Chromaphyosemions Nov-98
Cichlasoma (Archocentrus) septemfasciatum Jul-96
Cichlasoma sajica, Breeding Jul-92
Cichlid Keeper’s Cichlid Mar-97
Cichlids are Different! Mar-93
Cichlids of Mexico Apr-94
Cichlids of Mexico, Part 2: Neartic Cichlids May-94
Classification of Nishikigoi, 1 Feb-93
Classification of Nishikigoi, 2 Mar-93
Classification of Nishikigoi, 3 Apr-93
Classification of Nishikigoi, 4 May-93
Classification of Nishikigoi, 5 Jun-93
Classification of Nishikigoi, 6 Dec-93
Classification of Nishikigoi, 7 Jan-94
Classification of Nishikigoi, 8 Feb-94
Classification of Nishikigoi, 9 May-94
Clenopoma weekvi, Keeping Mar-92
Clever Fuelleborni Aug-94
Clown Plecos, Keeping the Feb-92
Clowning Around: Loaches for Laughs Sep-00
Cobalt Zebra Sep-94
Cockatoo Dwarf Cichlid Sep-91
Cockatoo Dwarf Cichlid, Apistogramma cacatuoides Dec-94
Coldwater Loaches—Remarkable Aquarium Fishes Feb-91
Collecting a Colorful Killifish in West Africa: Aphyosemion geryi Apr-98
Collecting Herichthys (Theraps) tuba May-95
Color Selection in Discus Breeding Sep-99
Comments on Miniature Freshwater Fishes Jan-97
Common Krib, An Easy Dwarf Cichlid Aug-94
Community Tank Cichlids Aug-91
Companions of Discus Jan-91
Compleat Betta unimaculata Aug-95
Conditioning Wild Discus for Spawning Jul-93
Confession Jul-92