You and Your Aquarium (Paperback)

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Product Description

A guide to 120 species of aquarium-suitable fish, how to set up an aquarium and the proper care you need to keep your fish healthy.

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A guide to 120 species of aquarium-suitable fish, how to set up an aquarium and the proper care you need to keep your fish healthy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Knopf; American ed edition (March 12, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394729854
• ISBN-13: 978-0394729855
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,407,461 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You and this book, February 21, 2001

By	Carlton D. Garrard (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ok, first, great book for the beginner. If you are new but enthused, this book will help in several ways. Informs you of tank setup, maintenance, fish species and compatability, correct water biology, and a good general guide to the art. It has excellent illustrations on tank setup, from hardware to types of gravel and plants in two formats, one for hardware one for everything else, and many to choose from. A good reference on fish and types, with excellent photos from common fish in Tropical and Marine. Outlines everything you will need to setup and maintain your aquarium with interesting reading. Has a chapter on how to photograph your fish as well as how to show them. Second, I read this book cover to cover in two days, easy reading...but not to vague. If you are starting out, you must have this book. If other books have confused you, this one will help. I recommend it :).

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but dated and redundant, July 30, 2004

By	cmpst52 "cmpst52" (Denton, NC United States) - See all my reviews

Dick Mills writes pretty good aquarium books. However, he's written the same book four or five times. Getting any one of his books (I'd suggest "The Tropical Aquarium") means you've read them all.

Also, this book was published in 1986, and is quite out of date. The understanding of the nitrogen cycle in this book is very primative. Get a more recent book.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dick Mills is the Man with regard to aquarium survey books!, February 25, 2004

By	Matthew Childers "mchilder17" (Illinois) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"You and Your Aquarium" is one of Mills' many masterpieces for the beginner to advanced beginner among aquarists. This book shows the basics of aquarium-keeping and many of the most common fish found in the tropical hobby, but advanced concepts are only mentioned at best and skipped at worst.

Since this is an older book, the concept of "fishlessly cycling" aquaria is not touched upon, which is a glaring enough omission to warrant docking the book a star.

Other than that, the beginning aquarist will find this to be one of the greatest aides to success in the hobby.