Aquariums and Aquarium Fish: The Comprehensive Expert Guide to Planning, Building, Stocking and Maintaining Your Aquaria, Both Marine and Freshwater, ... Step-by-step Colour Photographs and Artworks

by Gina Sandford (Author), Mary Bailey (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $11.21

  This is a definitive guide to identifying and keeping freshwater and marine fish. It includes clear step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions for planning, building, stocking and maintaining your aquarium. It is a comprehensive fish identifier with hundreds of colour pictures of the world's most popular fish in their natural locations and habitats. It offers essential information on major families and groups of fishes, their characteristics, and how the professionals keep them. The first half of this book explains in practical terms how to set up your aquarium, how to select the types of fish you want, and how to maintain a healthy tank environment. The second part of the book looks at the fish themselves, discussing and visually demonstrating distinguishing features of identification, and then the general merits, demerits, habitats, feeding and breeding requirements of many hundreds of fish in each of the eight major fish groups. Written in an informative and practical style and illustrated throughout with over 700 photographs, this is the book that every aquarium owner, whether beginner or expert, must own.