Keeping freshwater fish is the perfect choice for the new fish enthusiast. Among other reasons, freshwater fish easily adapt to varying (water) conditions. This beautiful manual is the perfect introduction to the world of freshwater fish. It will guide you from purchasing fish to setting up an aquarium to creating a habitat where these freshwater fish will thrive.
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An invaluable guide for all fishkeepers keen to learn more about the fascinating and delicate creatures in their care.
Using clear text, colour photographs and stunning illustrations, this book provides a unique 'behind the scenes' look at how freshwater fish live in their natural and captive environments. It explores all aspects of their everyday lives, including their basic structure, how they sense the world around them and how they reproduce.
The book closes with an overview of popular freshwater fish, a guide to their classification and a helpful glossary of terms.
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Dick Mills, author of many aquarium books, is a former editor of The Aquarist & Pondkepper magazine and also a Vice-President of the Federation of British Aquatic Societies. He has kept aquarium and pond fish continously for the last 40 years, but also finds time to travel, when -as if by accident - he always manages to come across a public aquarium or two.
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The title is completely misleading,
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This review is from: Understanding Freshwater Fish (Interpet Handbooks) (Hardcover)
To the best of my knowledge, there are freshwater fish and marine (saltwater fish). A book called "understanding FRESHWATER fish", so I would have thought, would include information about coldwater AND tropical fish, since both are, in fact, freshwater fish. This book, however contains information about ONLY coldwater fish. The title, therefore, should be, "understanding COLDWATER fish". Also, the author is ONLY Dick Mills; Gina Sanford's name appears nowhere in the book, as far as I could find.
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Before tropical fishkeeping became a popular hobby, people only kept coldwater fish - and for sound practical reasons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flattened ventral surface, coldwater fish, cycloid scales, cyprinid fishes, caudal fin, female fish, carassius auratus, gill cover, pelvic fins, breeding time Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Before tropical fishkeeping became a popular hobby, people only kept coldwater fish - and for sound practical reasons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flattened ventral surface, coldwater fish, cycloid scales, cyprinid fishes, caudal fin, female fish, carassius auratus, gill cover, pelvic fins, breeding time Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Biology of Fishes by Quentin Bone in Back Matter
- Natural Visions: Creative Tips for Wildlife Photography by Heather Angel in Back Matter
- Vertebrate Life (7th Edition) by F. Harvey Pough in Back Matter
- Freshwater Aquarium: Your Happy Healthy Pet by Gregory Skomal PhD in Back Matter
- The Goldfish: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet by Carlo DeVito in Back Matter
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