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| Top Ten Things You Will Learn in This Book | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preliminary Considerations | |
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| Why Keep Aquatic Organisms? | |
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| Environmental Ethics and the Law | |
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| Time and Money | |
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| A Hobby or a Career? | |
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| Contributions You Can Make | |
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| Precautions | |
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| Water and Water Quality | |
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| Natural Water | |
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| Artificial Seawater and Commercial Freshwater | |
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| Salinity | |
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| Checking pH | |
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| Oxygen | |
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| Temperature | |
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| The Nitrogen Cycle | |
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| Filtering Your Aquarium | |
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| Filtration in General | |
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| Live Rock, Live Sand, and Algae | |
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| Outside Filters | |
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| Wet/Dry or Trickle Filters | |
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| Fluidized Bed Filters and Protein Skimmers | |
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| Ozone Generators | |
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| Ultraviolet Sterilizers | |
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| Box Filters | |
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| Sponge Filters | |
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| Diatom Filters | |
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| Resin Filters | |
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| Other Considerations | |
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| Light and Heat | |
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| Photoperiods in Nature | |
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| Lighting in General | |
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| The Qualities of Light | |
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| Types of Lamps | |
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| Temperature | |
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| Setting Up Your Aquarium | |
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| Types of Aquariums | |
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| Aquariums for Specific Situations | |
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| Location of the Aquarium | |
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| Plants and Coral-Live or Artificial? | |
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| Decorating Your Aquarium | |
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| Building Your Display | |
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| Fish-Classification and Characteristics | |
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| Classification in General | |
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| Orders and Families of Fish | |
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| The Senses | |
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| Swimming | |
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| Respiration | |
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| Reproduction | |
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| Fish-Species Accounts | |
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| Angelfish (Family Pomacanthidae) | |
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| Catfish (Family Plotosidae) | |
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| Butterfly Fish (Family Chaetodontidae) | |
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| Damselfish and Clownfish (Family Pomacentridae) | |
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| Jawfish (Family Opistognathidae) | |
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| Cichlids (Family Cichlidae) | |
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| Carp and Relatives (Family Cyprinidae) | |
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| Gouramis and Other Anabantids (Family Anabantidae) | |
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| Piranhas, Tetras, and Relatives (Family Characidae) | |
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| Understanding Fish Behavior | |
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| General Patterns of Activity | |
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| Diurnal and Nocturnal Fish | |
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| Feeding Behavior | |
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| Defensive Behavior | |
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| Territoriality | |
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| Eliciting Natural Behavior in the Aquarium | |
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| Interpreting Fish Behavior | |
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| Invertebrates-Classification and Characteristics | |
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| An Overview of the Invertebrates | |
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| Sponges and Relatives (Phylum Porifera) | |
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| Jellyfish, Sea Anemones, Sea Fans, and Corals (Phylum Cnidaria) | |
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| Segmented Worms (Phylum Annelida) | |
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| Horseshoe Crabs and Relatives (Phylum Chelicerata) | |
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| Crabs, Shrimp, and Relatives (Phylum Crustacea) | |
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| Snails, Clams, Squid, and Relatives (Phylum Mollusca) | |
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| Sea Stars, Sea Urchins, and Relatives (Phylum Echinodermata) | |
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| Animals with Backbones (Phylum Chordata) | |
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| Invertebrates-Species Accounts | |
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| Octopus | |
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| Corals, Jellyfish, and Sea Anemones | |
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| Hermit Crabs, Arrow Crabs, and Boxing Crabs | |
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| Mantis Shrimp, Banded Coral Shrimp, and Other Shrimp | |
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| Starfish, Brittle Stars, and Sea Urchins | |
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| Crayfish | |
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| Aquatic Insects | |
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| Freshwater Snails (Family Gastropoda) | |
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| Freshwater Shrimp | |
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| Leeches | |
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| Oddities for the Aquarium | |
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| Seahorses (Family Syngnathidae) | |
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| Moray Eels (Family Muraenidae) | |
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| Boxfish, Trunkfish, and Cowfish (Family Ostraciidae) | |
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| Anglerfish (Order Lophiiformes) | |
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| Sargassum Fish (Histrio spp.) | |
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| Snakehead (Channidae) | |
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| Frog Mouth Catfish (Chaca bankanensis) | |
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| Lungfish (Lepidosireniformes) | |
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| Bichirs and Reedfish (Polypteridae) | |
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| African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis) | |
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| Selecting Fish and Invertebrates | |
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| Selecting a Species | |
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| Selecting an Individual | |
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| Introducing Fish and Invertebrates to Your Aquarium | |
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| Purchasing Fish and Invertebrates | |
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| Collecting Fish and Invertebrates | |
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| Cold-Water Aquariums | |
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| Basic Considerations | |
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| Oyster Toadfish (Opsanus tau) | |
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| Atlantic Spider Crab (Libinia emarginata) | |
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| American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) | |
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| Fifteen Spined Stickleback (Spinachia spinachia) | |
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| Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) | |
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| Sunfish (Centrarchidae) | |
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| Brown Bullhead Catfish (Ictalurus nebulosus) | |
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| Weatherfish (Misgurnis fossilis) | |
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| Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) | |
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| Mexican Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) | |
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| Brackish Water Aquariums | |
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| Estuarine Environments | |
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| Establishing a Brackish Water Aquarium | |
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| Mudskippers (Periopthalmus spp.) | |
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| Archerfish (Toxotes chatareus) | |
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| Mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) | |
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| Four-eyed Fish (Anableps spp.) | |
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| Scat (Scataphagus argus and S. a. rubrifus) | |
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| Monos (Monodactylus argenteus) | |
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| Other Brackish Water Fishes | |
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| Fiddler Crabs (Uca spp.) | |
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| Plants and Algae for Marine and Brackish Aquariums | |
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| General Considerations for Algae and Plants | |
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| Marine Algae | |
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| Plants for Brackish Water Aquariums | |
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| Freshwater Plants in Brackish Water Aquariums | |
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| Nutrition and Feeding Techniques | |
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| The Role of Nutrition | |
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| The Ideal Approach | |
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| Tailoring Feeding to Specific Situations and Behaviors | |
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| Frozen Foods | |
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| Fresh Seafood and Vegetables | |
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| Dry and Freeze-dried Foods | |
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| Filter Feeding Organisms | |
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| Feeding During Your Absence | |
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| Areas for Experimentation | |
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| Live Food for Aquarium Inhabitants | |
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| Live-Food Specialists | |
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| Brine Shrimp (Artemia salina) | |
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| Earthworms and Black Worms | |
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| Marine and Freshwater Fish | |
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| Marine and Freshwater Shrimp | |
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| Insects | |
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| Maintaining Your Aquarium | |
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| Checking the Animals | |
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| The Importance of Regular Water Changes | |
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| The Importance of a Logbook | |
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| Daily Maintenance | |
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| Monthly Maintenance | |
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| Emergency Maintenance | |
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| Health and Disease | |
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| Stress | |
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| Identifying Diseases | |
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| Quarantine | |
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| Parasitic Diseases | |
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| Fungal, Bacterial, and Viral Diseases | |
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| Water Quality and Illness | |
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| Nutritional Deficiencies and Euthanasia | |
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| Breeding Fish and Invertebrates | |
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| Breeding Strategies of Fish and Invertebrates | |
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| Live-bearing (Viviparous) Fish | |
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| Egg-laying (Oviparous) Fish | |
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| General Breeding Considerations | |
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| Manipulating Conditions to Induce Breeding | |
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| Nutrition and Reproduction | |
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| Lesser Known Live Foods | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Index | |