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Use this page to find out more about your hobby. The links below are to some of the better manufacturers, breeders, and distributors in the industry. If one of those doesn't answer your needs, or piques your cuoriosity for even more information, then just enter your topic in the Google window and stand back. The best search engine on the net will be back in a flash.

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Aquarium Stuff

	Aquarium Fish Magazine - A good general hobby magazine with a wide range, from beginner to reef keeper.
	Aquarium Pharmaceuticals - Fish medications, heaters, filters, pond stuff.
	Aquarium Systems - Instant Ocean salt, Millenium filters, good powerheads, heaters, and SeaScope is free!
	Champion Lighting - They don't make anything, they're just the place to find all that high-end reef stuff nobody seems to have in stock.
	Creative Plastics Research - The Bak-Pak skimmer, excellant trickle filters, and lots of marine stuff.
	Dolphin International - A major tropical fish transshipper. This is a good sight for identifying that oddball fish you got in.
	Eheim - The standard in canister filters. German engineering, quiet, and they last forever.
	Freshwater & Marine Aquarium Magazine The best magazine on the market for in depth articles on the aquarium hobby, and lots of good ads.
	Rolf C. Hagen - The Fluval canister filter, Tronic heaters, and lots of aquarium stuff. Avoid the air pumps.
	Kent Marine - R.O. units and lots of water treatments, salt, etc. for aquariums and ponds.
	Marine Enterprises International - The Big Mombasa skimmer, Crystal Seas salt, test kits, etc.
	Microcosm Books - The best marine aquarium books on the market. Try "The Conscientious Marine Aquarist" by Bob Fenner.
	Quality Marine - a good saltwater fish source. The great thing on this site is the saltwater fish I.D. section.
	Rainbow Lifegard - Lots of modular filters, U.V.s, and tons of plastic plumbing parts - bulkheads, etc. Also some pond stuff.
	Tetra - This sight has some good beginner's stuff along with their product propaganda, and some links to major public aquariums.
	TFH Publications - Lots of books and the oldest aquarium magazine around - lots of pictures, if nothing else.

Bird Stuff

	Animal Environments - These are some of the best parrot cages on the market. Barney lived in one for 15 years, Crash has been in one for nine, both are still in great shape.
	Avian Adventures - Another line of top end, well built cages, if you can get one. They've had supply problems, but the quality is there.
	Bird Talk Magazine - The best magazine on the market for the bird person, from finches to macaws.
	Baby Beaks Aviary - This site has a good listing of other aviaries around the country to get hand fed baby birds from - Wattam's, Mariah, etc.
	Jungle Talk - A good line of bird toys, perches, etc. Watch this line for growth.
	Kaytee - One of the first easily available, quality bird pellets. They also have a full line of other bird supplies. This sight also has as some good bird info.

Pond Stuff

	Aquascape Designs - Like I said on the garden pond page - the best garden pond systems you can buy. They have the best, easiest, prettiest...
	Paradise Water Gardens - An old-timer in the water garden business, these guys carry a wide variety of both supplies and plants. Lots of lilies, lotus, etc.
	Waterscape Designs - Pond supplies and ideas for the landscape oriented.

And Just for Fun...

Snood - Beware - an addictive and very effective time waster

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