This section is dedicated to you who appreciate and enjoy a home aquarium, reptiles, amphibians, or small animals (other than cats, dogs & birds). There’s always something new and exciting in livestock, tips on how to better care for your fish or maintain your aquarium. We update this section on a regular basis, so make a point of visiting frequently.

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Water Quality

• Biological filtration - The Nitrogen  Cycle

• Ammonia, pH & Nitrite

• Osmoregulation in Freshwater Fish

• The Importance of Water Changes 

General Information

• Where Do Your Fish Come From?

• Purchasing Fish

• Toxins in Fish, Invertebrates & Amphibians

• “Winterizing” Your Fish

About Aquariums

• Community Display Tanks

• Aquarium Lighting

Fresh Water Fish

• “Mellow” Cichlids

• Variatus - Not Just a Feeder

• Geophagus, The “Earth Eater” Family

• The Discus Mystique

• Corydoras Catfish

• Plecostomus -The Aquarium Lawn Mower 

• The Labyrinth Fish

• Tetras and Their Kin

• Common Freshwater Diseases Their

• Identification and Cure

African Cichlids

• How the Cichlid Species Developed

• Background & Tips on Care

• The Genus Haplochromis, Red Fin Borley, and 

• Melanchromis Chipokae

Salt Water Fish & Invertebrates

• Trends in Saltwater Fish

• Specific Gravity- The Key to Better 

  Salt water Clarity

• Anyone for a Glass of Salt Water

• Hawaiian Saltwater Fish

• Hawaiian Butterfly Fish

• Centropyge Angels

• Make a friend Out of an Anemone

• Displaying Live Corals

• Saltwater Shrimp

Goldfish - Domestic & Imported

• A Background to Goldfish

• Koi - Ideal for Garden Ponds

• Diangnosis & Treatment of Goldfish   Diseases

• Potential Problems With Imported Goldfish      

Aquatic Specialties

• An Overview of Aquatic Specialties

• Norfolk Baby Blue Lobsters

• Displaying Newts & Frogs

• Freshwater Fiddler Crabs, Dwarf    African Frogs, and Water dogs

Aquatic Plants

• Plants - Their Relationship to Water Quality and Fish

• Garden Pond Plants

• Water Garden Plants

Foods - Live & Frozen

• Nutrition - It’s Relationship to Healthy Ornamental 

• Tropical Fish

Reptiles and Amphibians

• Jackson’s Chameleons & Other Old World 

• Chameleons

• Caring for Farm-raised Baby Iguanas

• Care of Sailfin Lizards

• Care of Amphibians

• The Argentine Horned Frog & White’s Tree Frog

• Care of Snakes 

• Notes on Ball Pythons

• Fascinating Scorpions

• Land Hermit Crabs - Care & Health Hints

Small Animals

• Rabbits - Wonderful House Pets

• The Chinchilla Story

• Ferrets

• Hamsters- Care and Feeding

• African Pigmy Hedgehogs

• Prarie Dogs - General Care & Feeding

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