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A constant concern among aquarium hobbyists is keeping their fish healthy and active. This book offers all the advice they'll need. It opens with discussion and advice on tank water chemistry-how to control it to produce an optimal environment for aquatic life. Other important topics explored in detail include fish nutrition, recognizing and treating fish diseases, and protecting fish against parasites, as well as bacterial, fungal, and viral infections. In addition to sound advice, readers will find photos, line art, and information on medications to help them maintain a healthful aquarium environment for healthy fish.

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Suitable for both new and intermediate hobbyists, the book is organized for instant look-up, with color coding to highlight species that will fit into aquarium systems of different sizes along with full-color identifying photos for each fish.

• Written by Kathleen Wood
• Softcover
• 192 pages

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These tropical reef-dwellers make beautiful additions to any tank, but many are aggressive to other species. Here is detailed advice on keeping active, healthy Angelfish. Barron's comprehensive Pet Owner's Manuals are heavily illustrated and filled with useful information. They instruct owners on how to care for their dogs, cats, birds, fish, and other animals. Books give advice on purchasing and acquiring, health care, feeding, and much more. Clear, straightforward texts are accompanied by high-quality full-color photos and anatomically accurate line art, as well as helpful tables and charts.

• Paperback / 96 Pages / 6 1/2 x 7 7/8 / 2001

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This lavishly photo-filled volume demonstrates that having an aquarium to be proud of means much more than keeping fish in a glass tank. The aquarium enthusiast who takes his hobby seriously reproduces a part of the aquatic natural environment in miniature inside his home. Author Peter Hiscock offers practical instructions on setting up a freshwater tropical aquarium. He describes substrate, aquarium plants, and appropriate combinations of fish. Much of this book focuses on fish and plant life in nature, and then offers details on replicating natural settings that are to be found in many different parts of the world. This lavish volume's main sections discuss the following topics:

Setting up an Aquarium: A practical introduction to the process of assembling a freshwater tropical aquarium with descriptions of all needed materials, from substrate to filters.

Choosing and Using Aquarium Plants: A detailed review of aquarium plants and how to use them effectively in a freshwater tropical aquarium.

How Fishes Live: A look at the lifestyles and physiology of freshwater tropical fish. This chapter serves as a foundation for the book's main section , which follows.

A World Tour in Your Aquarium: This major section of the book offers readers a tour of the world's freshwater habitats as they exist in different parts of the world. It describes methods to set up an aquarium that recreates the atmosphere and fish life of each location, including a mountain stream of fast-flowing water, a mangrove swamp, a flooded Amazon forest, a Southeast Asian swamp, and several others.

Both plants and fish varieties are shown in vivid color photos and described in detail. More than 450 color photos and illustrations.

• About the Author:
• Peter Hiscock trained at Sparsholt College in Hampshire, one of the U.K.'s leading schools for aquatic studies. He has published widely on fish behavior and aquarium keeping. Among his other books published in North America by Barron's are A Practical Guide to Choosing Aquarium Plants and A Practical Guide to Creating and Maintaining Water Quality.
• Hardcover w/ jacket / 208 Pages / 8 1/2 x 10

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Praised by life scientists for its accuracy, this valuable text is fascinating and very useful to new or experienced hobbyists. Practical advice is coupled with detailed profiles of virtually every freshwater fish. 300 outstanding, high-quality photos and informative, accurate line drawings complete this indispensable guide.

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Aquarium hobbyists who are interested in breeding fishes and invertebrates will find a bonanza of information in this profusely illustrated book. Explained here is the biology of fish breeding, with focus on taxonomy, population management, genetics, inbreeding versus selective breeding, culling, reproductive strategies, and larval and juvenile development. The author also provides extensive information on aquarium requirements, breeding triggers, and fish nutrition. Prospective fish breeders will value the author's detailed instructions for building a fish room, with attention to its location, structure, plumbing, life support, and safety issues. He devotes individual chapters to livebearers, egg layers, cichlids, marine fish, and invertebrates. This very useful book is enhanced with more than 100 color photos plus helpful line art.

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How to set up and maintain aquariums, and meet needs of the fish. Has colorful photographs of over 300 freshwater and marine fish plus aquatic plants. The one comprehensive reference every aquarium owner should have.

• "An easily understood and indispensable book ...." -Philadelphia Inquirer
• Paperback / 176 Pages / / 1985

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Featuring newly added species, superior photography, and more informative content than ever before, the revised 11th Edition of Dr. Axelrod's Atals of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes is an essential ichthyological reference book that provides quick but accurate identifications to a wide selection of the hobby's most notable aquarium fishes.

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Containing 992 pages and more than 1800 full-color photos, this masterful reference work and identification guide contains a large section dealing with aquarium maintenance, plants and fish breeding in addition to almost 700 pages of photos identifying---and providing maintenance information about---aquarium fishes from all over the world. The fishes shown are indexed by both scientific and popular names for ease of reference.

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Hundreds of different aquarium plants are illustrated in color with detailed descriptions of each plant, its common name, botanical designation, and information on its growth cycle and general care. A brand-new title in the growing Mini Encyclopedia Series, this book helps aquarium owners plan, create, and maintain a colorful and interesting environment for fish and aquatic life. Each volume provides in-depth information and instruction on a specific subdivision of fish keeping. Complementing the text are sets of illustration panels filled with full-color photos, each with its own detailed and instructive caption. The team of authors, all recognized aquarium experts, show readers how to set up an aquarium, select species, and maintain an optimal environment for the tank's aquatic and plant life. Approximately 250 color photos and illustrations in each volume.

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Literally hundreds of different tropical freshwater fish are shown in vivid color photos and described for aquarium hobbyists. Readers will also find information on general aquarium maintenance. More than 300 color photos. These pocket-sized handbooks are handsome and practical quick-reference sources for pet owners, pet fanciers, and aquarium and terrarium hobbyists. Books feature brief descriptive profiles of their subject animals, each profile consisting of a color photo, the animal's place of origin, its basic housing and feeding needs, and its physical traits and temperament. In addition to the profiles, each Compass Guide also contains general information on animal species and their families.

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Barron's Pet Handbooks look very much like Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals, but the Handbooks are larger-more pages, more text, more color photos, and more detailed pet-care advice. Bettas, also known as Siamese fighting fish, are tropical Asian varieties having spectacular waving tails and fins. They're available in a wide range of colors. Here is expert guidance on the care of bettas, plus specific information on the different strains of betta and advice on segregating them from less pugnacious fish.

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