Fishkeeper's Guide to Community Fishes [Hardcover]

Dick Mills (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1991

A splendid introduction to the care and breeding of 60 freshwater tropical fishes for the community tank.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 120 pages
• Publisher: Tetra Press; Revised edition (September 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564651339
• ISBN-13: 978-1564651334
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,472,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A list of community fish, bulked out., December 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Fishkeeper's Guide to Community Fishes (Hardcover)

More than half this book says absolutely nothing about community fishes.

The first section of this book repeats much of the same information one might find in any aquarium book -- heating, lighting and filtration, plants and layout, maintenance of equipment, feeding, etc. -- at a fairly general level. The main section of the book lists and describes sixty freshwater tropical fish that can be kept together in tropical tanks. There's nothing about compatibility between specific species, or how to include fish that are marginally community-oriented. There's nothing about water conditions for different fish, so a reader depending on this book might not even realize that some fish will do poorly in the same water that other fish thrive in. The last section of the book is about breeding -- again, nothing about "community."

For those who are interested in the "community" aspect of a community aquarium, this book is simply a list of sixty fish to choose from. For those who are setting up an aquarium for the first time, who want a random mix of fish, and who want to buy only one book, this could be the book.