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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting and different.,
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This review is from: Sarah Fell Keppler's School of Fish: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Freshwater Tropical Fish (Paperback)
Ms. Keppler's book is based on her own personal experience and not mainstream rhetoric. I recommend it for beginners or anyone interested in a fresh approach. Her methods are sound and agree with my own 30 years of fishkeeping and breeding.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All you need to know. No, really!,
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This review is from: Sarah Fell Keppler's School of Fish: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Freshwater Tropical Fish (Paperback)
This is a complete, and completely charming, primer, with some things I've never seen in other books.First, her whole emphasis is on WATER CHEMISTRY, from which, she says, almost all other ills arise. And truth to tell, that has been my experience. I forget to change the filter for a month. I let the PH get out of hand. I can't be bothered to make water changes. And my tank goes to hell. Her explanations of water chemistry, what happens, what goes wrong, what to do about it, are crystal clear. She's not selling products, like so many books are -- she's explaining what makes an aquarium healthy. Second, there's a long and complicated (but COMPLETE!) list of types of fish, what they need to live well, and WHAT OTHER TYPES OF FISH THEY DO WELL WITH, something (in my experience) that few pet store employees really know much about. Do they like to be alone, in pairs, or in schools? Who will they attack and who will attack them? She even suggests various groupings. But also gives you enough information to figure out your own. Every time my tank starts to go haywire, I pull out this book and re-read it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All you need to know. No, really!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sarah Fell Keppler's School of Fish: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Freshwater Tropical Fish (Paperback)
This is a complete, and completely charming, primer, with some things I've never seen in other books.First, her whole emphasis is on WATER CHEMISTRY, from which, she says, almost all other ills arise. And truth to tell, that has been my experience. I forget to change the filter for a month. I let the PH gete out of hand. I can't be bother to make water changes. Her explanations of water chemistry, what happens, what goes wrong, what to do about it are crystal clear. She's not selling products, she's explaining what makes an aquarium healthy. Second, there's a long and compleicated (but COMPLETE!) list of types of fish, what they need to live well, and WHAT OTHER TYPES OF FISH THEY DO WELL WITH, something in my experience) few pet store employees know anything about. Do they like to be alone, in pairs, or in schools? Who will they attack and who will attack them? She even suggests various groupings. But also gives you enough information to figure out your own. Every time my tank starts to go haywire, I pull out this book and re-read it.
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