Richard Torrens Aquatic life

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As a complement to the Ponds and Water Life site (PAWL) I am writing some pages on the animals and plants that you may find. Since I also keep a normal tropical aquarium, many of these pages will be relevant to that. They will get written as I find interesting specimens and take relevant photos!

• Books on water life: a listing of some I know
• Diseases
  • Chlorine poisoning
  • Fish Tuberculosis
• General articles
  • Fish suppliers around Cambridge - advice on the good and bad ones.
  • Muck that you filter from your aquarium gravel
  • Plants and animals that I can usually find and supply
  • Temperate plants in the tropical aquarium.
  • Methods of propagtion of water plants
• Animals
  • Bitterling
  • Damselflies
  • Freshwater Shrimps How to catch, keep and breed gammarus for fish food.
  • Freshwater Worms
  • Hydra
• Water plant portraits.
  • A list of water plants. It started as a list of plants we have in our garden pond and is now being extended to list other water plants.
  • Hornworts Ceratophyllum demersum and Ceratophyllum submersum
  • Floating pennywort (Hydrocotyle ranunculoides) - a dangerous alien invader.
  • Fringed Water-lily - Nymphoides peltata
  • Frog Bit - Hydrocharis morsus-ranae
  • Water Speedwell Veronica Anagallis-aquatica.
  • Starwort
  • Water Soldier - Stratiotes Alloides
  • Watercress - nasturtium oficionale
  • Temperate water plants in the tropical Aquarium
• Fish, plants, water life etc available
• Our own garden pond List of various plants and links to info on them.

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Page first published 14th November 2002
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