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Aquarium Care of Fancy Guppies (Animal Planet Pet Care Library)

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Stan, the author, has been breeding IFGA show quality guppies for over 30 years. He consistently places in the top three at the IFGA shows. Guppy strains have come a long way over the years with ever increasing beauty and new colors. This book will show you how to keep all guppies in top condition with great advice on feeding, water quality, lighting and disease. Many color photos and many are of Stan's own IFGA show fish. Even if you only have a tank or two of guppies obtained from the local fish store, this book will have something of value for you. There's a small section on how to selectively breed your gupps to maintain their quality and keep the offspring looking like the parents. I encourage guppy enthusiasts to pick up a copy of this book.
Like Stan, I'm also a member of the IFGA and encourage you to show your guppies at one of the shows and share the guppy hobby with a youngster, to keep this fascinating hobby alive for future generations.

This is a great book to learn about guppies and has great pics, i do think this book is more for breeders then for beginners, as for just a basic home tank i found myself still asking some questions, but still has a lot of good info.

This book was purchased for my 12 year old daughter who has 2 aquariums in her room. One large tank is full of guppies happily breeding. This book has lots of useful information which my daughter refers to often. The book is easy to follow and many lovely photos.

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I have owned a couple of fancy guppy tanks for most of my life just for the joy of looking at these beauties and, at 61, am on the look out for up-to-date books on this delightful, peaceful, lovely little fish.

This book is a jewel! It not only covers all the basics needed for the beginner, or refresher info for the in-between folks, but also provides information on line breeding and inbreeding that I found very interesting and useful for active breeders.

It has a very useful section on recognizing the various color classes and tail types being bred today and has photos of some females that are so beautiful, I had to check the anal fins to make sure they were not males!

This book also tells you what the most important question you should ask about the breeding background of any guppies you are buying as breeding stock, regardless of how beautiful they are. Want to know the question? Buy this wonderful book with its gorgeous, full-color fancy guppy photos and find out what it is.

Unlike so many TFH books using 30-year-old photos by Hannel or Alexelrod (Truly the greats of their time), this one is chock full of beautiful photos of Fancy Guppies and the many color and fin types available in this new 21st century. Most of the photos are of fish that were bred by its IFGA show winner and breeder author, Stan Shubel. BUY THIS BOOK! YOU WILL LOVE IT!

Note: Although the check box for Amazon purchase review will not come up for me, I did purchase this book at Amazon.com

This book is very useful. It teaches us how to take care of guppies. It also has many lovely picture. Anyone who owns guppy will like this book, me too!