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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good enough but fraught with errors,
By Breck Breckenridge (Spokane, Washington) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The 101 Best Tropical Fishes: How to Choose & Keep Hardy, Brilliant, Fascinating Species That Will Thrive in Your Home Aquarium (Adventurous Aquarist Guide) (Paperback)
This is an OK book for one which seeks only to cover the "basic" species of tropical fish. But the editor ought to hang their head in shame. The index is fraught with errors! Page numbers given for a particular species do not match what pages they are actually on to a large extent, especially with the tetras. In another place, the captions underneath a group of photos of swordtails read rainbow fish! It seems as though this book was sort of put together a bit too quickly for a thorough, ordinary review.
That said, looking past the errors, this is an OK book, as I've said, and very much in the same idiom as the companion volume on plants by the same company. I use my copy of this work as a backup to my "A to Z" book. Basically to corroborate what it says and vice versa. Nothing like having two sources opinions on a given species.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This is a good book for beginners,
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This review is from: The 101 Best Tropical Fishes: How to Choose & Keep Hardy, Brilliant, Fascinating Species That Will Thrive in Your Home Aquarium (Adventurous Aquarist Guide) (Paperback)
There is lots of content in this little book. I believe it is best suited to a new hobbyist as he/she walks through an aquarium shop looking at their stock. An experienced hobbyist usually knows what they like and how they will behave. Just the same, the book can produce a few surprises. For example, I was reading about Ram Dwarf Cichlids, an old favorite of mine, but soon found myself drawn to the Cockatoo Dwarf Cichlid, a fish with many of the same characteristics but much more colorful (and expensive!). I'll try them someday, and this was the book that pointed them out to me.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good quick reference guide,
By NJReview (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 101 Best Tropical Fishes: How to Choose & Keep Hardy, Brilliant, Fascinating Species That Will Thrive in Your Home Aquarium (Adventurous Aquarist Guide) (Paperback)
This book is good as far as a quick look-up guide for common tropical fish. It suggests what size tank the fish needs and how they should be kept (in schools, in pairs), and tells the fish's temperament and food needs. It has examples of "model" tanks for 10 g, 20 g, etc, that are proven to be harmonious according to the book. It also has a section of tropical fish to advoid. One aspect the book is missing are the water parameters (soft water, hard water, temperature) necessary for the fish, which is extremely important when choosing what fish to keep, and what fish can be kept together. I suggest purchasing this book used; it's not worth it's full retail price.
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active schooling species, community tank residents, swimming level, aquarium fare, sinking wafers, open swimming room, midwater swimmers, algae wafers, inverted flowerpots, cave spawners, regular water changes, dark substrate, egg scatterers, including flakes, peaceful species, meaty foods, community aquarium, frozen bloodworms, gravel substrate, small live foods, dwarf cichlid, top swimmers, substrate spawners, adhesive eggs, planted aquarium Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Midwater Swimmers, South American, Southeast Asia, Neon Tetra, Lake Tanganyika, Dwarf Loach, Flying Fox, Lake Malawi, Finley's Cichlid, Glowlight Tetras, Rift Lake, The Zebra Danio, West Africa, Congo Tetras Micralestes, Harlequin Rasbora Trigonostigma, The Clown Pleco, The Dwarf Gourami, The Firemouth, The Glass Catfish, The Honey Gourami, The Rummynose Tetra, The Severum, The Yellow Labido New!
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active schooling species, community tank residents, swimming level, aquarium fare, sinking wafers, open swimming room, midwater swimmers, algae wafers, inverted flowerpots, cave spawners, regular water changes, dark substrate, egg scatterers, including flakes, peaceful species, meaty foods, community aquarium, frozen bloodworms, gravel substrate, small live foods, dwarf cichlid, top swimmers, substrate spawners, adhesive eggs, planted aquarium Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Midwater Swimmers, South American, Southeast Asia, Neon Tetra, Lake Tanganyika, Dwarf Loach, Flying Fox, Lake Malawi, Finley's Cichlid, Glowlight Tetras, Rift Lake, The Zebra Danio, West Africa, Congo Tetras Micralestes, Harlequin Rasbora Trigonostigma, The Clown Pleco, The Dwarf Gourami, The Firemouth, The Glass Catfish, The Honey Gourami, The Rummynose Tetra, The Severum, The Yellow Labido New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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