2 comments about The Complete Guide to Tropical Aquarium Fish Care (Animal Care).

1. This book is good for the setup part of the Aquarium hobby, but is severely lacking in fish identifications. Meaning, it is one of the least used fish books I own. Most of the other information is good.



2. I recently read this guide and found it very helpful in making decisions for my new acquarium and also discovered ways to care for my new friends! Life is much easier now.. Thanks Amazon!

3 comments about The Tropical Freshwater Aquarium Problem Solver.

1. I like this book, but I bought it because it had information on fish rarely found in most aquarium books, mainly the loach families and fairly good coverage on catfish families.

   I completely agree with Scott Hieber about the Maturation portion of this book though. It does not make any sense. Other than that I had few problems with this book.




2. A small sparse book that covers a lot of fish & all of the basics of care and keeping -- sometimes devoting as much as a page to a particular topic. Contains some old fashioned thinking. Sandford actuallly tells you to set up your tank & let it sit without fish for a month so that it can mature. Actually, the maturing (i.e., estabilishing nitrate bacteria and nitrite bacteria for the nitrogen cycle) doesn't really start until you provide food (i.e., fish waste) for the bacteria. So the month of waiting without fish in the tank is not only old hat, it's unscientific & shows that Sandford probably never measured the ammonia/nitrate/nitrate levels in a tank during this empty tank break-in.

   The question-and-answer format that accompanies the text throughout is useful on questions of fish behavior but less so for technical info like "Why is my tank cloudy?" or "What's the advantage of a canister filter over a hang-on power filter?"

   There must be better sources of info available. In fact, searching a few sites on the web will get you more & better technical info than this book contains. But the pictures are generaly very good & there are lots of them. For each fish there are descriptions of habitat conditions, although these are "in-the-wild" conditions, which don't necessarily include ones that will also work well in home aquaria.




3. Gina Sandford presents an increadiable amount of information about fish keeping, in this very easy to read and understand, book. It clear explains every aspect of setting up a tank and keeping fish. It will answer all your questions, including the ones you havent thought of yet! The best part of the book is the profiles of the 7 common groups of fish. Each provides a tank conditions & care guide which will prevent you from placing the wrong fish in the wrong settings.

No comments about Aquariums (Weingartz, Jill. Created Environments Series.).

No comments about Piranas (Manuales Del Acuario).

No comments about Aquarium Fish (101 Essential Tips).

2 comments about The Practical Aquarium Fish Handbook.

1. Otherwise the book would be nice, but fishes in the pictures look shocked. They have no color, they have nipped fins and I also saw whitespot. Reader will get bad picture about some species. Can't recommend.



2. I found this book very helpful for choosing which fish to stock my tank with. Helpful lists of water requirements, and a rating on ease of keeping which I found helped me rule out fish that might have been too difficult for a beginner (not always clear with most other reference books I have read). The large pictures of each fish without the background clutter was also very useful as you knew exactly what you were getting and knew what to look for in a good, healthy fish.

No comments about Tropical Marine Aquaria.

No comments about La enciclopedia de los peces tropicales / Encyclopedia of Tropical Fish.

No comments about The New Guide to Aquarium Fish.

No comments about Reef Notes: 1991/1992 (Reef Notes).