Siamese Fighting Fish (Fish: Keeping and Breeding Them in Captivity) [Library Binding]

Gene Wolfsheimer (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up | Series: Fish: Keeping and Breeding Them in Captivity

A guide to keeping Siamese fighting fish, describing the physical characteristics and different varieties that exist, breeding strategies, care and feeding, aquarium maintenance, and more.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791050882
• ISBN-13: 978-0791050880
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,389,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Leaves something to be desired., September 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Siamese Fighting Fish (The Guide to Owning...) (Paperback)

After I rescued 2 beta fish from very poor conditions, I needed some really good information on their care. I did not find it in this book. It has a couple paragraphs about diseases, absolutely no charts or diagrams for biology or anything, and while the pictures were really beautiful, they had nothing to do with the topic on the same pages. There is a lot about how to have beta fights, and speaks of it in a very condoning tone! This is quite cruel and inhumane. There is I grant you some decent very basic info that you could glean off the internet yourself in an hour or two.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Very Informative, November 20, 2002

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Twila Brooks "poe999" (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Siamese Fighting Fish (The Guide to Owning...) (Paperback)

For anyone looking to find a detailed resource on the care of betta splendens, this book is not for you. A great deal of space in this book is devoted to the history of the fish, how they fight with other males (there are even explicit pictures of this process, which I was certainly not interested in seeing), and how to breed them. The sections covering their care are woefully lacking - the page on diseases merely lists the ailments and then offers a recommendation for another book in which to find more information. The tone of this book also stunned me - it is apparent that the author thinks of these fish as a source of income rather than as pets. Mention is made of fish that are not "exciting or saleable," and how sub-standard hatchlings should be culled or disposed of. I was quite offended by this - even the most dully-colored betta could find a happy home somewhere! The only reason I'm giving this book one star at all is because there are a lot of beautiful photos inside. It looks more like a picture book than anything else, actually. Very disappointing.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, January 4, 2002

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C. MacLorcain "CM" (Michigan, U.S.A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Siamese Fighting Fish (The Guide to Owning...) (Paperback)

I thought this book was pretty good. It showed you a lot of good pictures of the betta fish and it was very helpful in the history of betta fish, but some of the stuff that i was looking for in it, wasn't there, it just had a lot of pictures, and the history of bettas, it took up like 7 pages on the history where as they only did 3 sentences on how to take care of them!! if you are just looking for cool and good pictures of betta fish then you should buy this book, but if you are looking for information on betta fish then maybe you should look for a differnt boook, it was a great book, just not what i was looking for. I love betta fish and i think they are the cooles fish ever!