Yet Another Nutrient Calculator

As title states, Yet Another Nutrient Calculator is a useful tool to calculate aquarium fertilizer composition.


It's useful both for those involved in DIY and those that are curious about what is under the shell of fertilization operation.
The whole is completed with long term effects diagrams.

Aquarium and microscopy

A different and perhaps unique whay to watch your aquarium: through the microscope lens.


Acquariofilia e Microscopia Ottica site (in italian only) offers a series of articles that explain how to observe your aquarium by microscope. For those not interested in using this tool, however, I recommend to read articles on algae and aquatic plants ... you will find the answers to many questions about why and how certain phenomena occour...

offre una serie nutrita di articoli che spiegano come osservare il proprio acquario al microscopio. Per chi non è interessato all'uso di questo strumento consiglio comunque la lettura degli articoli sulle alghe e sulle piante d'acquario... vi troverete la risposta a molte domande sul perchè e sul come di certi fenomeni...

Spectrophotometer DIY

This time the link is not directly related to aquarium hobby but it's still useful... in Royal Society of Chemistry site you can find istructions to build a little spectrophotometer.



Advanced aquarists and DIY fan will surely find it useful...

Caudata Culture

Caudata Culture site is not about aquariums but about salamanders...


... inside it there is a page that may be very useful because it shows, with goot photos, some aquariums critters. It's a good tool to have by hand...

The AquaTools

The AquaTools web site is a collection of useful web applications that are all related to aquarium but are in no way connected to each other.


The more complex one is aquasketcher, a useful tool for creating drafts aquascapes.
The (probably) most useful is The Aquarium Diagnoser: an interactive guide to diagnose your aquarium plants problems.

It's really a link to keep highlighted.

Nyagua

Nyagua is a little piece of software that may help you to manage your home aquarium.
It runs on every O.S. that can run Java applications but some features may be used only on GNU/Linux O.S.

Interface is translated in English and Italian but it is not complete for dates and numbers formats...

You can manage more than one aquarium data
It's possible to store test kits measures and to get medium values, or to plot them, in graphs, for analisis.
It's possible to store informations about maintenance activity.
You can store expenses data and to get the relative report.
It's possible to store devices informations and to get a statistic on power consume.
You can store fishes common data near Your fishes data and compare them in a compatibility report.
You can store plants common data near Your plants data and compare them in a compatibility report.
Pictures of fishes or plants can be uploaded and stored in db.



More help at home page.

E.C. meters

The measurement of conductivity is often overlooked in aquariums, despite its undoubted utility. For lovers of DIY here are two articles that explain how to achieve a conductivity meter.
The first is at it.hobby.acquari. The circuit , though very simple to implement, has the disadvantage of requiring a PC for the measure.


The other circuit is on octiva net: it's a school project and is relatively simple and very well explained ...

Italian Live-food

Every now and then our aquariums guest must eat ... and, without detracting the excellent feed that are in the market, nothing is better than a little 'of live food.
Italian speaking people can find at Italian Live-food instructions on how to raise/find this kind of live-food and how to fed their fishes ...

Little signs of life

I think that every aquarium keeper has happened, sooner or later, to see, at least once, small signs of life moving in water without being able to identify him. I have found at least 3 web sites that can help you find out what you face ...

The first iis a section of Microscopy UK. Here we can find a section named "Pond Life Identification Kit" . From a drawings menu you are driven link by link to specific articles on the identified specie .


The second is a personal site of an Italian hobbyist named Luciana Bartolini. The section "Insetti e larve d'acqua" ("Water Insects and larvae ") contains some detailed pictures of various kinds of these animals.



The third site is a small collection of pictures at http://pot.potorti.it/acquari/animaletti/.
Only few photos, but very useful ...

Aquarticles

A name states it all... Aquarticles.com , as in it's author words is "An international collection of articles about fish and aquariums..."

The site aesthetics is minimalist but the contents are ecellent. Is not updated often but is open to contributions.

Aqua 3 (aquacube)

What about ... Fabio Ghidini website has always left me speechless ...


to make you understand I invite you to see the portfolio and let yourself be enchanted by the images.

A link, that alone is worth the visit to the website, is "Aquarium Photography" in which Fabio explains a 'bit' of his technique.

Tropica Aquarium Plants

Tropica is a major European grower and seller of aquatic plants, it' site is in my opinion one of the most useful for those involved in aquaplanting.


This website provides consultation for plants data, those informations are a landmark in this field.
Recently has become available an on-line electronic version of their catalog which alone is worth the time to visit the site.
Very interesting and in-depth articles also present.

DIY PH Meter

For those who want to buid their own PH Meter at 66pacific.com there is "The PH pages" section.
Here You can find a complete measurement and control circuit diagram

and, near it, the diagram of simplest PH Meter possible.

Information about PH meters calibration are also avalaible.

Fishbase

As from its name Fishbase is a database containing the data of over 31,000 species of fish accompanied, in most cases, the relevant photos.
The home page interface is, at least, essential:not more than a form to enter search parameters:

simple and effective.

It 'available in all major languages of the world and is definitely an essential tool for anyone breeding fishes.
Unfortunately, the main server is often unavaillable for network overload and I suggest to bookmark all mirrors addresses to find most available one.

Chuck's Planted Aquaria Pages

Chuck Gadd site is one of the most popular planted acquarium sites.
It 'a personal website in English that contains some wonderful articles including some about aquarium startup and others about fertilization.

One of the reasons why it is very well known is that it allow to download a program to calculate the dosages of fertilizer elements to make DIY fertilizers.
Hidden in the articles there is a web version of this program which can be used on-line.


Another tool available allows the calculation of CO2 starting from pH and KH values.