Guidelines for caring for tropical fish.
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This review is from: Handbook of Tropical Aquarium Fishes (Hardcover)
I liked this book because i could look up pictures of many different fish. it has a lot of general information on livebearers and egg layers. what i did not like was: 1. The information about the fish and the photos were not together. After you read something about a fish you had to look it up seperatly to find a picture of it. there was information on some fish that were not pictured and pictures of some fish with no information on them. 2. there is no fish disease section 3. they talk about plants but there are no pictures of them 4, the filters they talk about are mostly outdated... no modern type filters like wet/dry or cannister, biotypes. if you want a cheap book that explains about breeding and to use it to identify fish this is a good one. The new hybrids are not included though and there is way too much information on the origination and patent of the ______ fish [i forgot, it was a section that i skipped] To be honest I just use the book for pictures only so I can look up the information elsewhere like on the internet.
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SUPERIOR BOOK ON FISH,
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This review is from: Handbook of Tropical Aquarium Fishes (Hardcover)
Despite the fact that Dr. Axelrod wrote the text over 20-25 years ago, it is an excellent source for the various aquarium topics that all aquarium keepers eventually run across and need a reference book. Information about various equipment and supplies are outdated but that information can be found in many different sources. If that is a major interest, this book will not help you. However, it does provide rich and detailed material about diseases, fish anatomy, fish behavior and requirements for aquariums. This book delivers useful and detailed information that leaves nothing to the imagination.
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Tropical Aquarium Fishes,
This review is from: Handbook of Tropical Aquarium Fishes (Hardcover)
Dr. Herbert Axelrod was the finest expert of tropical fish. I have kept fish for the past 38 years and have always relied on his books to guide me along the way, even to this day. If you keep fish, rely on this book.
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optimum breeding temperature, rivulus spot, artificial spawning grass, fry require infusoria, more pointed anal, more pointed dorsal fin, nity tank, need infusoria, munity aquarium, peaceful species, cichlid fashion, cent sea water, cent stock solution, species piscium, toothed carps, more pointed fins, larger dorsal fin, wagtail platy, freshly hatched brine shrimp, spawning grasses, breeding size, naturelle des poissons, ioo liters, red platy, type locality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Rio Negro, South America, Methylene Blue, British Guiana, British Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Fishes of the River Ganges, Live-bearing Toothed Carps, Malay Peninsula, Amazon River, North America, South Carolina, East Indies, Ganges River, Carnegie Mus, Catalogue of the Fishes, Niger River, Rio de La Plata, Rio Grande, Costa Rica, Mato Grosso, Peruvian Amazon, Red Sea New!
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- Tropical Fish by Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine on 4 pages
- Tropical Fish(oop) by Herbert R. Axelrod in Front Matter, page 337, and Back Matter
- Exotic Tropical Fishes by Herbert R. Axelrod in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Innes's Exotic Aquarium Fishes: A Work of General Reference, 21st Edition by William Thornton Innes on page 365, and Back Matter
- Life and Love in the Aquarium by Charles Howard Peters in Back Matter
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- Freshwater Aquarium: Your Happy Healthy Pet by Gregory Skomal PhD in Back Matter
- Oscars-New Ed by Neal Pronek on page 78
- Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes by Herbert R. Axelrod on page 1
- The South Carolina Aquarium Guide to Aquatic Habitats of South Carolina by David Chamberlain in Back Matter
- The Essential Freshwater Aquarium (Essential Guides Series) by Betsy Sikora Siino on page 88
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