About & sourcing policy

The Lone Aquarist's Weekly Dive is a weekly digest of saltwater and reef aquarium news across industry and product announcements, husbandry and science, notable forum discussion, new videos, livestock and coral news, wild reef conditions, and club events.

It is assembled automatically each week and reviewed and edited by one person — me, Isaac. This is a personal project, but also a shared publication for those interested in the deeper side of the reef aquarium hobby and industry. I am not affiliated with any of the outlets it links to.

How sources are selected

Only outlets that publish a public feed or API. Nothing here is scraped.
Sources are chosen for signal, not completeness. This is a digest, not an archive.
Anything that reads as an ad rather than news is filtered out.
A few items each issue are added by hand — stories worth reading that no feed here carries. They are credited to the site that published them, on the same terms as everything else.

How sources are credited

Every item names its outlet and links to the original. That link is the point.
Summaries are short and in my own words — facts and context, never a replacement for reading the source.
No article text is reproduced. Quotes, where they appear, are brief and attributed.
Every issue lists all the outlets it drew from.

How the crawler behaves

Honors robots.txt on every request.
Identifies itself as DailyDiveBot with a working contact address.
No more than one request per second per site.
Uses conditional requests, so an unchanged feed costs the host almost nothing.

Corrections and removal

If you publish something that appears here and you'd like it removed, your feed excluded, or a credit corrected, email theloneaquarist@gmail.com. No justification needed — I'll remove it and it stays removed.