Saltwater Aquarium: Your Happy Healthy Pet [Hardcover]

Gregory Skomal PhD (Author)

Book Description

Series: Happy Healthy Pet | Publication Date: August 21, 2006

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

A saltwater aquarium provides a soothing, ever-changing mini seascape of color and motion. But saltwater fish require a constant, controlled environment. How do you set up and maintain a tank and select the right fish from more than 12,000 varieties? How do you care for marine fish? This updated guide provides the facts and advice you need and includes:
* Info on choosing, equipping, and setting up your aquarium
* Pointers on choosing compatible fish for a community tank
* The scoop on the best (and worst) fish for beginners
* Guidance on maintaining your aquarium and keeping your fish healthy

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From the Back Cover

The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs—now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly!

A saltwater aquarium provides a soothing, ever-changing mini seascape of color and motion. But saltwater fish require a constant, controlled environment. How do you set up and maintain a tank and select the right fish from more than 12,000 varieties? How do you care for marine fish? This updated guide provides the facts and advice you need and includes:

• Info on choosing, equipping, and setting up your aquarium
• Pointers on choosing compatible fish for a community tank
• The scoop on the best (and worst) fish for beginners
• Guidance on maintaining your aquarium and keeping your fish healthy

About the Author

Gregory Skomal is an accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, aquarist, and author. He has been a fisheries biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries since 1987 and currently heads up the Massachusetts Shark Research Program. He has written numerous scientific research papers and has appeared in a number of film and television shark documentaries, including programs for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and ESPN.
Although his research passion for the last twenty years has been sharks, he is also an avid aquarist and has written eight books on aquarium keeping. His home and laboratory are on the island of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Howell Book House; 2 edition (August 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470037954
• ISBN-13: 978-0470037959
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,937,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and easy to read!, October 29, 2007

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Brook Mattos (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Saltwater Aquarium: Your Happy Healthy Pet (Hardcover)

I found this book to be very informative. Gave me just about all the information I needed in order to begin my hobby! One thing I wish they would have done is list brands of the equipment mentioned and show the inside anatomy of the typical fish. I realize both of those are really hard things to do with everchanging products and the question of if there really is a typical fish!

I also found this book to be super easy to read. There wasn't a lot of words that I didn't understand and if they were new to me Skomal did a great job of explaing what that term meant.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone!