How Atlarium selects sources, verifies technical data, updates profiles, and distinguishes editorial content, product data, and community contributions.
Our editorial remit
Atlarium publishes practical, evidence-aware information for aquarists. Our goal is to make complex topics easier to understand without turning uncertainty into false certainty. A profile, guide, or tool can help readers formulate better questions and make more informed choices, but it is not a substitute for professional diagnosis, local regulation, or individual animal assessment.
We separate documented facts, editorial interpretation, and community experience.
We write for freshwater, brackish, marine, and terrestrial aquarium keepers with different levels of experience.
We do not promise a result from a care practice, product, or calculation.
Authorship and responsibility
Curated content is published by the Atlarium editorial team. Community pages identify their author separately and are not presented as editorially reviewed Atlarium copy. Where a named author, contributor, or external source is shown, that attribution explains who is responsible for that contribution; it does not transfer responsibility for the rest of the page.
Community contributions remain visibly distinct from reviewed editorial copy.
We correct attribution when a contributor or source has been identified incorrectly.
Sources and verification
For taxonomy, biology, and husbandry parameters we prioritize scientific databases, specialist literature, and official documentation. We use sources that are appropriate to the claim: a taxonomic authority is not automatically sufficient for a care recommendation, and a manufacturer sheet is not independent evidence of performance. Available sources are linked from each profile whenever they are available.
Primary research, recognised databases, and official documentation take priority over summaries.
Specialist books and established husbandry references can add context when primary evidence is limited.
Search snippets, unsourced reposts, and anonymous claims are not treated as evidence on their own.
Evidence, estimates, and uncertainty
Aquarium knowledge is often incomplete, conditional, or contested. Natural ranges can vary by locality, captive husbandry can depend on the system, and older references may use superseded names or methods. When evidence conflicts, we avoid selecting a convenient answer simply to make a profile look complete. Estimates and ranges are presented as such, and missing data remains missing until it can be supported.
Ranges describe a useful context, not a universal target for every aquarium.
Conflicting, provisional, or estimated values are labelled rather than silently harmonised.
We revise claims when stronger or more relevant evidence becomes available.
Editorial review before publication
A page is reviewed for clarity, internal consistency, source fit, and scope before it is treated as editorial content. Review is proportionate to the subject: an identity correction and a medical-safety claim do not carry the same risk. We aim to make the basis and limits of a claim understandable to a reader rather than merely accumulating citations.
Key names, units, ranges, and warnings are checked against the supporting material.
We remove or qualify claims that cannot be supported well enough for the context.
Editorial review does not mean that every statement is permanently settled or universally applicable.
Products and independence
Product profiles describe technical characteristics and manufacturer data. A product appearing in the catalogue is not an editorial endorsement, a guarantee of suitability, or a recommendation to buy. An estimated price is not a sales offer and is not presented as commercial availability. We do not invent ratings, reviews, tests, or endorsements.
Manufacturer specifications are attributed to the manufacturer and may change without notice.
Compatibility depends on the aquarium, installation, livestock, and local availability; readers should verify these before purchase.
Any material commercial relationship affecting editorial content should be disclosed clearly where the content appears.
Reviews and updates
Pages are revisited when new evidence, an error report, a relevant product change, or a taxonomy update calls for it. Public modification dates and lastmod signals change only when indexable content changes or a recorded editorial review occurs. Deployments, social counters, and technical writes do not create false freshness.
A date tells readers that the published content changed or was editorially reviewed; it is not a claim of comprehensive revalidation.
Routine technical maintenance does not reset a page’s visible editorial freshness.
Older pages may remain available while they await review; readers should consider the stated evidence and context.
Community content and discussion
The community is valuable for observations, practical setups, and questions that deserve attention. Community posts can inform future editorial research, but publication by a member does not convert an anecdote into verified guidance. We preserve the distinction so readers can understand whether they are reading a documented reference, an editorial synthesis, or a keeper’s experience.
Authors of community pages are identified separately where that information is available.
Personal reports are useful context but should not be generalized automatically to other animals or systems.
We may edit or remove content that is misleading, unsafe, unlawfully sourced, or incorrectly attributed.
Health, welfare, and safety
Information about health, treatment, disease, and emergency conditions is educational. It cannot diagnose an individual animal or replace a qualified veterinarian, aquatic specialist, or local authority. Welfare comes before novelty or convenience: readers should not use a page as a reason to delay help when animals show distress, serious symptoms, or rapid decline.
Dosages, treatments, and handling practices require careful checking for the species and the actual system.
Urgent symptoms, poisoning risks, and animal-welfare concerns call for professional or local expert support.
We avoid presenting a single protocol as safe for every species, life stage, or aquarium.
Corrections
Reports and corrections are checked before integration. A useful report identifies the page, the exact claim, and—when possible—the source or observation that supports the correction. We assess the report, update verified information, and retain uncertainty where the evidence does not support a definitive replacement. Corrections are part of the editorial process, not an exception to it.
Use the contact channels shown on Atlarium to report a factual error, broken source, or outdated specification.
We welcome precise, good-faith corrections and may ask for further context before changing a page.
We do not remove well-supported information solely because it is inconvenient or disputed without evidence.
Media kit
Press assets, ready in every language.
Download real product screens and share images for each Atlarium language from one place. The library covers the home experience, species profiles, games, and the aquarium configurator; every edition is available here, whatever language you are browsing in.
This bibliography lists each named source once when it has a reviewed provenance record. The short description explains the source’s scientific role and why Atlarium uses that type of evidence; workflow notes and technical retrieval details are deliberately kept out of the public page. 167 distinct reviewed sources are currently indexed.
