Links
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Auction Sites
A quick link to view online auction sites.
Even if you are not interested in bidding you can view photos of lots & check out what's new.

Aquabid

Aqua Auction
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Aquarist Classified http://www.aquarist-classifieds.co.uk/
 
http://www.breeders-international.com

New site started 6th January 2009.

  • Membership at breeders-international.com is free
  • Manage your own fishlist
  • Add as many fish as you like to your fishlist
  • Add around 30 pictures to each of your fishentries
  • Buy or sell fish, fry or fisheggs directly from the breeder
  • Exchange informations with others

Worldwide Livebearer Associations

American Livebearer Association

ALA

http://livebearers.org/

German Livebearer Association

DGLZ

 

French Livebearer Association

AFV

 
Poecilia Scandinavia
  
Dutch Livebearer Association
 

Specialist Guppy Sites

International Fancy Guppy Association

Based in the USA.

  

Guppy Club - Singapore

 

Guppy Club - Belgium

  

Portuguese Guppy Association

  

www.aig-italia.com
Italian Guppy
Association (AIG)

 
http://www.guppy.or.kr/
Korean Guppy Association		 Click language option 'E' to enter site.
  www.guppydesigner.com NEW URL May 2008 update Philip Shaddock's site. Some great books available online from the USA.
 

Online Publications / database's

http://fish.mongabay.com/data/Costa_Rica.htm List of fishes from Costa Rica with big linkable database.
www.livebearer.info. Livebearer Info. Online in December 2005.
Fish Ark Mexico Fish Ark Mexico
Conservation organisation with close links to the BLA.
goodeids.com Goodeids.com
Checklist Annotated Checklist of Fishes
A list of halfbeak names running into 35 pages - pdf file.
German site

German site contains a list of livebearers with useful references to papers & articles. If you are looking for a livebearer article you have a good chance of finding it here.
Dermogenys pusillus An article on Dermogenys pusillus. In Italian but you can translate through Google.
Lots of good photos of the fish & fry. Worth a peek.
http://www.xiphophorus.org/ Xiphophorus.org
Site dedicated to this genus. Really useful distribution maps. Details on how to get permits to collect.
The site contains a newsgroup but this was not working at the time I looked at it.
http://www.goodeiden.de/ Goodeiden
Guenter Ellenberg's site. Goods database & photos of Goodeids.

IEF

 Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters
An international journal for field-orientated ichthyology

Stingrays

Ray's stingray site with loads of photos & breeding information of P.motoro with photos of young etc.
Books about stingrays. Go straight to the best deals here.
Adobe pdf file of a paper with a chart showing which sp. are legal to be exported from the wild & what the quotas are. Also shows which sp. are illegal to ship.
Site with information & photos of P.motoro, P.leopoldi etc.
Interesting piece with photos of hybrid P.motoro x P.reticulatus.
No built in translator but you can use Google by typing in http://www.potamotrygon.de/ Loads of good photos if you ferret about. Site contains a newsgroup but you need to communicate in German.
Loads of photos. Worth a poke about.

International Banking - Money Exchange

Send money in foreign currency. Join overseas associations in seconds. Useful for E-Bay, Amazon etc. Secure site.

Diseases

Highly recommended site on diseases. This site has won many awards. Well worth a visit.

Book Suppliers

Aqua Geõgraphia

http://www.petsforum.com/aquageo/Default.html
LIFE ABOVE AND BELOW WATER
Heiko Bleher's collecting material can be found in this periodic journal

 
Alibris  
Half Price Books  
Seahorses  
Fish Book Store  
Book Finder  
Aquarian Subjects  

Newsgroups

Swordtail Guppies Newsgroup
 

General Livebearer Hobbyist Web-sites
If you would like your website listed here contact me with your URL.

The Goodeidae Foundation

Loads of photos of Goodeids.
Scotia - Scotland Livebearer work.... I like this site. Keep up the good work lads. http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/poeciliascotia

Fishbase
A large searchable database which is most useful.

Cyprinodonts & Turtles
Martin Tversted's site containing south American annuals & livebearers.

Viviparous
Viviparous.org.uk

C.L.O.F.F.A.
Powerful reference site to finding articles on Livebearers.

Maps

http://www.multimap.com/map/places.cgi?client=europe&db=ap&overviewmap=ap
Good site. Type in town etc to bring up a localised map of road/main drainages.

http://www.mapsworldwide.co.uk
Maps Worldwide. For those of us who like the old fashioned fold out maps this site is really good. Detailed maps available covering Central & South America & other parts of the world. Good site, fast delivery. Recommended.

I use this site regularly.

http://www.mapquest.com/main.adp
MapQuest. Very good site with zoom in maps showing places 'not on the map'.

http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/
Earth Explorer. Detailed zoom in maps of the area you select Worldwide.
Click 'Guest' then enter the location you seek.
Global Gazeteer
( No Logo )

http://www.calle.com/world/index.html
Global Gazeteer. A large site listing thousands of places you've never heard of down to villages in Africa. Information on grid reference & height above sea level.
Locations are linked to maps but these are large & can be difficult to download.

Museums

 

Online Translators

http://www.systransoft.com/ or http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
Google page translator. This translates whole websites. To activate click 'Translate this page' which appears next to the URL of the website you are looking for.
If you have the Google toolbar installed on your machine click the 'information' button them 'translate'.

Virus Information

 Virus Help Page
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
This site is great for checking out hoax virus'. Just look down the list on this page & click your virus (if listed) to find out more about it.

Trade Pages

Aquarium Fish.net site. When I found the site it had 3 video clips of stingrays. As a commercial site the page may change but these clips were nice.
Southernapistos - A great site for seeing what's new from commercial imports from South America.
Odd Ball Aquatics.
Aquabid - An online auction site. Worth keeping an eye on.

Miscellaneous Recommended Sites

http://www.cadas.org.ukCorby & District Aquarist Society.
http://www.northtrop.co.uk Northwest fishkeepers website.
Adobe Reader for opening .pdf files.
http://www.killies.com/Decapsulating.htmHow to decapsulate brine shrimp eggs. Step by step in photo format. Simple site, very useful.

http://makeashorterlink.com/index.php

Putting large URL's onto a newsgroup can be difficult as they strip the HTML code from the second line onwards. This site converts your URL into a small reference URL which fits onto one line. Very useful, thanks Wright.
http://www.applesnail.net/Apple snails..Love them or hate them this is the site to download.
Gigablast.comPowerful search engine. Fast & easy to use.