[AquaticLife] I Lost A Link! Help?
Hi Bill,
That was me… the king of links. 
I never did do much research on that site to see how good their database was but here’s the link. After you put in your water parameters, let us know which fish they recommend.
http://www.aquaria.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=database&file=index_spec ies
The website has a URL with Aquaria.info but their header refers to FishGeeks. I never really dealt with this website before coming across their database search engine…. but it seems like a pretty comprehensive website.
In the advanced search section, fill out all of the parameters that are known… temperature, pH, General Hardness and since your tank is still considered on the small size and I know you like lots of fish, stick with fish that stay under 3″ and Peaceful. This should work as long as the database was properly built. But with computing, GIGO can result in bad information (GIGO = Garbage In, Garbage Out). Hopefully, they used Mongabay profiles or other reliable profiles, like Fishbase.org or the Baensch Aquarium Atlas series that \Steve// and others recommend, for building their database.
I just did a test search using 3″ as maximum size, a pH of 6, temperature of 78 and 1 dH of Hardness and put Peaceful as the temperament of the fish. I left all of the other fields as “All”. It came up with two pages of fish species and you can right-click on the individual species links right from those pages to open the profiles in a new tab or page so you don’t have to close your search pages. Compare a few of their profile sheets to Mongabay’s and if they are pretty much right on, then let us know.
The first species in my sample search, Apistogramma gossei, did not have a profile on Mongabay (but I didn’t search hard for it) but Fishbase.org has a profile with slightly different info but the FishGeeks profile info was pretty close.
http://www.aquaria.info/modules.php?file=speciesdetails&id=120&op=modload&na me=database
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=46627
The next fish, Apistogramma macmasteri, also did not have a profile on Mongabay but below are the FishGeek and FishBase profiles.
http://www.aquaria.info/modules.php?file=speciesdetails&id=123&op=modload&na me=database
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=46660
The profiles are different as far as the exact details for fish length, so FishGeeks isn’t getting their info from Fishbase but they seem close enough to not be a problem. FishGeeks doesn’t say where they got the data for their database but if it was from a reliable source, then it should be OK.
Their Goldfish profile left much to be desired since they had the goldfish all classified under the same species.. which is technically accurate but fancy goldfish have much different parameters than their common brethren. FishGeeks have them all listed with 20″ max size and 20 year lifespan but the fancy goldfish do not typically make it to those numbers where the long-bodied goldfish could exceed those numbers. At least they had minimum tank size as 100G… which is a helluva lot better than the 10G figures I see on so many goldfish profiles and care sheets.
They also have this disclaimer… “Temperature, lifespan, space requirements, etc. all depend to a large degree on which of the 170+ recognized varieties you are dealing with. Come to the goldfish forum for answers to more specific questions.”
http://www.aquaria.info/modules.php?file=speciesdetails&id=246&op=modload&na me=database
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