Informational Links Related to Tropical Planted Aquaria
Fish Keeping and Aquatic Plant Keeping
Chuck's Planted Aquarium Pages (Excellent practical articles on beginning and maintaining planted aquariums.)
Aquatic Concepts (George Booth) (Excellent informative site on keeping tropical planted tanks.)
Randy's Aquaria (Excellent articles on fish keeping and breeding.)
The Krib (Comprehensive site on keeping aquariums. See especially the section on plants and planted tanks.)
Tropica's Plant Encyclopedia (Online encyclopedia of many tropical aquarium plants.)
Poor Man's Dosing Drops (How to make your own aquatic plant fertilizers.)
Online Fish References
Loaches Online (Lots of good information on Clown and many other types of loaches.)
Fish Index (Online encyclopedic reference on all types of tropical fish.)
Fishbase (Another encyclopedic reference on all types of fish.)
Algae Eating Cyprinids (This article will tell you how to distinguish between a true Siamese Algae Eater (SAE), the only fish known to eat red algae, and the imposters: the False Siamensis, Flying Fox, the Chinese Algae Eater, and others. Only the SAE will help eliminate brush and beard algae.)
Rainbowfishes Online (This is a tremendous reference site on Rainbowfish-- better even than every printed text I have seen on this large class of tropical fish.)
Fish Doc, a web site devoted to fish health, fish disease and treatment.
Lighting Related Links
Artificial Lighting (Excellent article on planted aquarium lighting.)
Sample Color lighiting for planted aquaria under different bulb colors (A nice page showing the same aquarium under florescent lighting of different color.)
A Do-it-yourself 55 Watt Compact Fluorescent lighting fixture (Shows how to make your own compact fluorescent lighting fixture using an AH-supply lighting kit.)
Miscelaneous
Apple Snail Site (Everything you wanted to know about these interesting creatures.)
Digital Photography and the Aquarium, by Mike Cameron. (Excellent article on photography of planted tanks.)