A constant concern among aquarium hobbyists is keeping their fish healthy and active. This book offers all the advice you'll need. It opens with discussion and advice on tank water chemistry-how to control it to produce an optimal environment for aquatic life.
Aquarium Fish: How to Care for Them, Feed Them, and Understand Them (Family Pet Series)
A volume of Barron's Family Pet Series, Aquarium Fish offers information and advice on selecting fish for a freshwater aquarium tank, maintaining variety, keeping a chemically balanced aquarium, purchasing necessary equipment, feeding the fish, and cleaning the tank. This book also will help readers keep an aquarium that is enjoyable for both children and adults to observe. Profusely illustrated in full-color.
Setting Up a Freshwater Aquarium (Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet)
Greg Skomal is a fish expert who works on Martha's Vineyard. Co-author of the goldfish book in this series, here he tells readers how to set up, maintain and raise beautiful freshwater fish.
Originating in southern Asia, most gourami varieties are peaceable, and are best kept segregated from more aggressive aquarium fish. Titles in the extensive Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series provide pet owners with basic information on keeping healthy, contented, well-cared-for animals. The text in each manual is supplemented with many vivid, full-color photos, and with instructive, anatomically accurate line art. Each manual has been individually written by a breeder, trainer, veterinarian, or experienced animal specialist.
Gives basic information and illustrations on setting up a fresh-water aquarium and a marine aquarium and provides an illustrated selection of fish suitable for each aquarium.
The first volume did not anticipate a further volume. This second volume follows the 1987 pattern: good (not great) color photos of 850 species of fish; 150 aquatic plants; names, habitat, sex differences, sociability, conditions for maintenance, breeding, feed, temperature and chemistry, size, earliest import (if known).
This is a beautiful and enjoyable edition to the previous Atlases. This volume emphasizes catfishes, killifishes and the eternal aquarist favorite-cichlids. The exotic beauty of the coldwater fish of Russia's Amur River will fascinate western aquarists. This ensures the aquarist's ability to own the most complete collection of tropical fish information.
This comprehensive guide is packed with vibrant, full color pictures and essential information on creating, stocking, and maintaining a home aquarium. It enables enthusiasts, from novice to longtime owners, to make informed choices about types of fish, water, and aquarium environments.
Explains how to keep and breed a wide range of aquarium fishes, with details on breeding seasons, diet, water conditions, breeding sites, mating, and feeding and raising the young.
The Manual of Fish Health is a fully illustrated and highly informative guide covering: - Maintaining a healthy aquatic environment - Recognizing and coping with pests, diseases, parasites and bacteria - Water chemistry and how to achieve the correct balance for your fish.
Tropical Fishlopaedia: A Complete Guide to Fish Care
In a straightforward, accessible format, this book introduces the hobby of tropical fishkeeping, outlining what is required in order to set up the correct environment, and what varieties of tropical fishes will thrive in an aquarium.
Detailed information on choosing equipment, setting up a tank, plant selection, and water chemistry is included. You also get comprehensive coverage of how to feed your fish and how to maintain their tank. With special sections devoted to signs and symptoms of disease and first-aid treatments, as well as breeding tropical fish, this book has everything for the beginning hobbyist and the more experienced fishkeeper.
