Table/Contents - Link List

[leebca]

Ever wonder where you read something about something or other? Forgot where it was? Having another senior moment? Take a number!

Maybe this sticky can help you find the link you're looking for.

POSTS FOR BEGINNERS AND STARTING UP A NEW AQUARIUM
Are you sure?
Why Quit the Hobby?
Setting Up a FOWLR Aquarium
The Secret Cycle
Marine Aquairum Books & Reading
What is Live Rock, Anyway?
Fish Stocking Limit - for FO and FOWLR
Water:
--source
WATER - Source and NSW
--balancing calcium, alkalinity, and magnesium (see BALANCE section)
What is Water Quality
--quality
What is Water Quality
--evils of tap water
Chemistry and the Aquarium
--making a water change the smart way
How to Make a Successful Water Change
The Final Target:
The Mature Aquarium
Fish:
--choosing healthy fishes
Is The Fish Healthy?
--what is 'reef safe?'
Reef-Safe Fishes
--How much is enough?
Fish Stocking Limit - for FO and FOWLR

POSTS IN PREPARATION FOR ACQUIRING FISHES
Is that fish right for your system? How to acquire a healthy fish:
Is The Fish Healthy?
Want a Mandarin? Want a fish that eats pods? Be prepared:
Food Presentation
http://www.reefland.com/forum/marine...tml#post186916
Medicines and equipment to have on hand:
Stocking the Marine Fish Medicine Cabinet
Processes and Procedures:
--acclimation
It Was Acclimation, I know. . .
--quarantine, how to
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure: A Quarantine Tank for Everything by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com
--quarantine, how to in great detail
A Fish Quarantine Process
--treatments
Freshwater Dip for Marine Fishes
--de-worming
Strange Excrement from Fish -or- How to be a Super Pooper Snooper

POSTS ON HOW TO HANDLE NEW FISH ACQUISITIONS
How to Select a Fish:
Is The Fish Healthy?
Acclimation of New Acquisitions:
It Was Acclimation, I know. . .
Quarantine:
--step-by-step procedure
A Fish Quarantine Process
--using quarantine to train a Mandarin Fish how/what to eat
Food Presentation
--how to present food to new acquisitions
Food Presentation

POSTS ON FISH DISEASES, TREATMENTS, CURES, MEDICINES AND FALSE CURES
Not using a quarantine process? SHAME!
How to Catch Fish -or- Goin' Fisin'
De-worm all newly acquired fishes. Also, learn how to determine and treat marine fish intestinal worms/parasites:
Strange Excrement from Fish -or- How to be a Super Pooper Snooper
Myths:
Marine Ich - Myths and Facts
Marine Velvet - Myths and Facts
How to Perform a Hyposalinity Treatment for Marine Ich:
Hyposalinity Treatment
Freshwater Dip:
Freshwater Dip for Marine Fishes
Formalin Treatment:
Formaldehyde: Friend or Foe - Treating Saltwater Fish Diseases
Copper:
Copper - Treatment, Use, Problems
Popeye -- Diagnosis and Treatment:
Popeye -- NOT the Sailor
Cures or a Waste?
Melafix and Pimafix - How They Work and Don't Work
--Is it any good? Tricks of the trade
In case you were bored :P
--garlic (article and thread)
Garlic: What has been Studied Versus What has been Claimed by Steven Pro - Reefkeeping.com
Garlic
--cleaner fishes and shrimps
Neon cleaner goby

POSTS ON KEEPING FISH HEALTHY - NUTRITION, IMMUNITY, etc.
Feeding Marine Fish and Fish Nutrition
Food Presentation
Getting Fish to Eat the Right Foods
How To Feed Macro Alage to Marine Fishes
http://www.reefland.com/forum/marine...tml#post186916
How to Feed Your Fish Throughout the Day
Fish Immune Boosters
Tang Macro Algae Foods
Eating Right:
Does Your Fish Eat Like a Pig? - Not so Good?
Getting Fish to Eat the Right Foods
Stress:
Stress (and the Single Marine Fish)
Stress - A More Technical Discussion
Water Quality:
What is Water Quality
Sometimes the fish just won't make it. This is how to put a fish humanely down:
Euthanasia -- Putting a Marine Down

POSTS ON GENERAL AQUARIUM CARE
Cleanup Crew:
Clean Up Crews - Reef Hobbyist Online Magazine
Snails:
The Grazing Snails, Part I - Turbo, Trochus, Astraea, and Kin by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D. - Reefkeeping.com
The Grazing Snails, Part II - Abalones, Limpets and Nerites by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D. - Reefkeeping.com
The Grazing Snails, Part III: Conchs, Ceriths, Cowries, and Columbellids by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D. - Reefkeeping.com
Aquarium Frontiers Library
Nitrates:
Nitrates - Origin & Controls
The Nitrogen Cycle
Denitrification v. Nitrification
What is Live Rock, Anyway?
The Secret Cycle
Water Quality and Balancing Calcium, Alkalinity, and Magnesium:
What is Water Quality
Stocking the marine system with fishes:
Fish Stocking Limit - for FO and FOWLR

DON'T POSTS
No hermit crabs:
Aquarium Frontiers Library
Clean Up Crews - Reef Hobbyist Online Magazine
No Cleaner Wrasses:
Why Do Fish Clean? OR Picky Fish!
No Tap Water:
Chemistry and the Aquarium
Don't feed brine shrimp:
Feeding Marine Fish and Fish Nutrition
Do I Write?
No Miracle Products:
Melafix and Pimafix - How They Work and Don't Work
--Is it any good? Tricks of the trade
In case you were bored :P
No Short Cuts to Mother Nature:
The Mature Aquarium


WHO IS LEE BIRCH POST
Bio - Lee (a.k.a. leebca)


Hope this helps!
Let me know if something is missing.

[wozza]

cool very usefull, i can delete half my bookmarks now
thanks lee

[Reefland]

Awesome reference point!

[Tourkid]

what about bacteria infections/uses of maracyn & maracyn 2?

[leebca]

The procedure for a bacterial infection is to identify the bacteria and then choose the correct antibiotic.

The identification includes taking samples to make cultures, staining and using other lab techniques to identify the bacteria, then finally performing antibiotic tests if the bacteria is unknown or unidentifiable. Disks of antibiotics are placed on a agar media plate and the unknown or unidentified bacteria seeded onto the plate. The antibiotic that 'works best' at inhibiting growth is then chosen.

The process takes about 48-72 hours and is the only sure way to treat bacterial infections and to recommend specific antibiotics. Then the veterinarian prescribes the dose.

Few marine aquarists will go through this process so the use of antibiotics has no pat or set recommendations.

Sometimes the 'cure' is not an antibiotic. In order to prevent antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, it is best to avoid the use of antibiotics and instead try to discover the cause of the infection and remove the cause and allow the fish to heal itself. Bacterial infections in Marine fish that are healthy, provided the proper nutrition, housed and kept in quality water can handle bacterial infections in tanks free of parasites.