Searchable fish database?

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Is there any kind of Searchable online fish database that lets you specify
criteria? Ideally, I'd like to be able to specify parameters, and then get
a list of matching fish, so as to get ideas for new friends for my fishies.

Example:

Search:

Where Temp = 75-80
Where Behavior = Friendly
Where Water = freshwater
Where Size < 5"



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[Sajjad Lateef]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:47:21 +0000, m0nk3yp0x_m4k30v3 wrote:

> Is there any kind of Searchable online fish database that lets you specify
> criteria? Ideally, I'd like to be able to specify parameters, and then get
> a list of matching fish, so as to get ideas for new friends for my fishies.
>
> Example:
>
> Search:
>
> Where Temp = 75-80
> Where Behavior = Friendly
> Where Water = freshwater
> Where Size < 5"

A former poster 'Sorin' from Denmark (?) to these newsgroups had made a
similar database and posted during 1999-2001 .
You may want to go through Google News and search.

There are others. http://www.fishbase.org is more Ichthyology oriented
and does not have the 'Behavior' attribute you specify.

If you don't mind a book, then the Bensch [sp] Atlas is a good place too.

[Bud Nelson]

Here you go guys, these 2 sites are great.


http://freshaquarium.about.com/library/profiles/blcommalpha.htm


http://freshaquarium.about.com/library/profiles/blcommalpha2.htm

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Bud Nelson > wrote:
> Here you go guys, these 2 sites are great.

Nice sites, but not much different that any other lists of fish.

These sites are useful if you want to know more about a particular fish, but
I'm looking for a way to find fish based on particular characteristics.


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[NetMax]

> wrote in message
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> Bud Nelson > wrote:
> > Here you go guys, these 2 sites are great.
>
> Nice sites, but not much different that any other lists of fish.
>
> These sites are useful if you want to know more about a particular
fish, but
> I'm looking for a way to find fish based on particular characteristics.


http://www.fishprofiles.com/profiles/

... has some searchable parameters, such as water & size. Use ecosystem
to replace temperature. Behaviour is not a searchable parameter. For
that, a community cross-reference spreadsheet might help, such as
(reaches into bookmarks...):

http://www.geocities.com/gletiecq/fishcompat.html

...which also has some references to water, temperature etc.

Some other 'beginner' sites for stocking (even beginner sites have
tit-bits of neat information).:
http://www.aquariumfish.net/information/how_to_choose_fish.htm#top2
http://aquarticles.com/articles/breeding/gussie_selecting%20community%20t
ank%20fishes.html

hth
cheers
NetMax

[Paul Murray]

In article <t1Clb.353$SJ1.296@edtnps84>, wrote:
> Is there any kind of Searchable online fish database that lets you specify
> criteria? Ideally, I'd like to be able to specify parameters, and then get
> a list of matching fish, so as to get ideas for new friends for my fishies.
>
> Example:
>
> Search:
>
> Where Temp = 75-80
> Where Behavior = Friendly
> Where Water = freshwater
> Where Size < 5"

You could try:
http://www.fishprofiles.com/profiles/fw/

-Paul

[Sajjad Lateef]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 00:43:51 +0000, Poke wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:38:55 -0500, Sajjad Lateef wrote:
>
>> A former poster 'Sorin' from Denmark (?) to these newsgroups had made a
>> similar database and posted during 1999-2001 .
>> You may want to go through Google News and search.
>
> I did a search in Google News with group:*.aquaria* author:Sorin
> posted:anytime.
>
> The result is 15 posts between Apr., 1995 and Nov., 1997 none of them about
> a fish database.
>
> I was curious to find it. Can you give more/different clues ?

Sorry, it was Soren "Disky" Reinke and it was actually a aquatic
plant search engine (not a fish search engine). Is Disky still
around these days? What about Nestor8?

http://www.disky-design.dk/fish/PlantSearch/PlantSearch.html

My mistake ...

(and I was too busy to do a search yesterday)

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NetMax > wrote:

> http://www.fishprofiles.com/profiles/

> .. has some searchable parameters, such as water & size. Use ecosystem
> to replace temperature. Behaviour is not a searchable parameter. For
> that, a community cross-reference spreadsheet might help, such as
> (reaches into bookmarks...):

That is *EXACTLY* what I was looking for. And it does have a "temperment"
field, which is what I meant by "behavior".

(Although temperment, in retrospect, is a much more appropriate term).

Thanks, Netmax!

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