[FAQ] Aquaria: Read Me First -- Contents
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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.
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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/