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Pet Supply Store  Fish Books
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A Pocket Expert Guide: Marine Invertebrates by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D.
Price: $29.95
(Softcover) - $29.95
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Marine Invertebrates: Yellow sun coral (Tubastrae aurea), p. 194, Anemone crab (Neopetrolisthes maculata), p. 265. Maxima clam (Tridacna maxima), p. 284. The Essential Concise Reference Authoritative Up-to-date 450 color photographs Captive care & feeding advice for beginning to expert aquarists Covers all popular & commonly available marine invertebrates "At last! A trustworthy aquarist's guide to beautiful and bizarre marine animals." -Dennis Reynolds, Aqua Marines.
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An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet The Goldfish
Price: $12.95
(156 Pages; Goldfish) - $12.95
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For the beginner goldfish owner or the experienced aquarist, The Goldfish: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet is the all-in-one answer book. With chapters on everything from setting up your fish's environment, selecting the fish for you, and a well-rounded diet to breeding, this book covers it all. Best of all, its practical, easy-to-use information tells you what you need to know so that you can spend more time enjoying your fish.Beautiful, professional color photos take you up close and personal into the world of goldfish, showing you the color and form, varieties of fish, excellent aquarium layouts and signs to recognize if your fish are sick. There's even a chapter on setting up an outdoor pond. For happy, healthy goldfish, look no further than this book for the advice you need.
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Aquarium Corals: Selection, Husbandry, And Natural History
Price: $44.95 - $54.95
(464 Pages; Paperback)
(464 Pages; Hardcover)
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Beautiful, bizarre, and among nature's most colorful creations, living corals are now being successfully kept and grown in a rapidly growing number of home reef aquariums. Designed to help new and experienced aquarists to select the most appropriate corals for their systems and to provide guidance in keeping them healthy for the long term, this all-new book is packed with the advice of a seasoned coral keeper. More than 700 world-class photographs and text reviewed by leading coral biologists and reef aquarists guide the reader through the selection and husbandry of hundreds of species. Included are: soft corals, corallimorpharians (mushroom corals), gorgonians, zoanthids, large-polyp stony corals, and small-polyp stony corals - all illustrated with hundreds of brilliant new identifying photographs.
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Aquarium Fishes Of The World
Price: $39.95
(1018 Pages; Hardcover) - $39.95
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With a total of more than 1000 pages and over 1300 photos covering aquarium setup and management and aquariums plants in addition to the fishes themselves, Aquarium Fishes of the World is a compact, but comprehensive and colorful source of information and photos, a very fine value in aquarium literature. The fish catalog section alone contains more than 686 pages featuring descriptions and photos of more than 870 species. This is accompanied by two other highly detailed sections, one for aquarium plants and planting arrangements and one for aquarium setup and management.Readers who want to refer to Aquarium Fishes of the World for information about a particular fish or plant or an aquarium problem they might have will find the book's organization in distinct sections to be remarkably helpful. Readers who just want to pore through its invitingly colorful pages to have their aquaristic horizons broadened will be thoroughly satisfied. Beginners and those others who aren't familiar with scientific names of fishes will be benefited greatly by the fact that the index to the fish section is cross-referenced by both scientific and common names. All in all, this book is a permanently useful and attractive guide to the freshwater aquarium and a wide range of its dazzlingly colorful and interesting fishes. By Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod, Dr. Wareen E. Burgess, Neal Pronek, Glen S. Axelrod, David E. Boruchowitz.
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Aquarium Sharks & Rays
Price: $44.95
(255 Pages; Hardcover) - $44.95
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Perhaps the most mysterious and alluring creatures kept by saltwater aquarists, sharks and rays are becoming increasingly popular among serious marine fishkeepers. In this long-awaited and much-requested guide, expert aquarist and elasmobranch enthusiast, Scott Michael, provides the definitive introduction to the biology and behavior of home-aquarium-scale sharks and rays. Topics include species selection & identification, buyer's guide, shark aquarium setup and maintenance, feeding, health, breeding, behaviors and natural history, and stocking recommendations for the shark or ray tank. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs.
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Aquariums for Dummies
Price: $21.99
(328 Pages; Paperback) - $21.99
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The fun and easy guide to creating and maintaining a beautiful aquarium.Setting up your first aquarium can be a daunting task. Not only do you need to choose the right fish, but you also have to maintain the right environment for them to flourish. This friendly guide answers all your fishy questions--and makes it easy to get into the swing of things.Discover how to:Choose the right aquarium for you.Select the best fish.Create and maintain a healthy aquarium.Locate good deals on equipment.Design a dazzling underwater environment.The Dummies WayExplanations in plain English."Get in, get out" information.Icons and other navigational aids.Tear-out cheat sheet.Top ten lists.A dash of humor and fun.
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Bettas - A Complete Introduction
Price: $8.95
(128 Pages; Paperback) - $8.95
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Easy to read and loaded with practical, easy-to-apply information and solidly sensible advice, this highly colorful book covers every topic of importance to anyone, especially a beginner, interested in keeping Betta splendens, the Siamese fighting fish. Author Walt Maurus provides vital information about the different types of bettas and what they need in order to live well: how to house and feed them, how to breed them, and how to keep them healthy.
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Clownfishes
Price: $32.95
(239 Pages; Paperback) - $32.95
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Perhaps the most endearing of all reef creatures, the droll and exotically pigmented clownfish is a favorite of marine aquarists, divers, and amateur naturalists the world over. Now, one of the pioneers in the captive breeding of clownfishes in home aquariums has written the first in-depth hobbyists handbook on the husbandry of these fascinating marine species. Chapters include:Clownfishes in the WildFish and Anemone Species with Photographic Identification GuidesAnemone Ecology & PreservationSelecting Breeding StockOrchestrating the SpawnSuccessful Hatching TechniquesLarval RearingPropagation as a Cottage Industry.
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Conscientious Marine Aquarist
Price: $39.95
(430 Pages; Paperback) - $39.95
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A Commonsense Handbook for Successful Saltwater Hobbyists. Drawing upon a lifetime of aquatic experience, marine biologist Bob Fenner demystifies the process of planning, setting up, stocking, and managing a beautiful, thriving slice of the tropical ocean. A leading advocate for the responsible collection and care of wild-caught specimens, Fenner starts with the basics and proceeds to give the reader the scientific background and expert-level secrets to being a smarter consumer, better reef steward, and more successful marine aquarium keeper.The Conscientious Marine Aquarist includes:Honest Advice for BeginnersGreat Fishes & InvertebratesFoolproof Setup TechniquesSpecies to AvoidAppropriate Care & FeedingIntelligent Disease PreventionCreative Aquascaping IdeasDazzling PhotographyBringing the ethics and husbandry techniques of major public aquariums to the marine hobbyist, this landmark saltwater handbook sets new standards for the selection and care of captive fishes and invertebrates.
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Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Tropical Freshwater Aquarium Fishes, 9th Edition
Price: $99.95
(992 Pages; Hardcover) - $99.95
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This highly informative book is the biggest and most successful of all books designed to be identification guides to all of the tropical fish species available. Beautifully illustrated with 1,800 full-color photos, this new edition (the ninth) provides basic maintenance information on each species shown, and is fully indexed and cross-referenced by both scientific and common names. It also includes a large section devoted to dealing with aquarium maintenance, plants and fish breeding. This mini-Atlas has as one of its handiest features the use of space-saving symbols in the captions which provide at-a-glance information about feeding habits, aquarium lighting, aquarium setup, reproduction, temperaments and other factors.
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Dr. Burgess' Mini Atlas Of Marine Aquarium Fish
Price: $35.95
(1023 Pages; Hardcover) - $35.95
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The only thing "mini" about this book is in its title. This book is a beautiful and immensely colorful work that satisfies the long-existing need for a comprehensive identification guide to marine fishes. It shows not only the popular aquarium fishes but also the oddballs and weirdos, the large public aquarium type fishes, warmwater and coldwater fishes, and foreign and domestic fishes. There is also a large section devoted to the setup and maintenance of marine aquariums. The fishes shown are indexed by both common and scientific names for ease of reference. One of the handiest features of this Mini-Atlas is that it uses space-saving symbols in the captions, which include numbers and symbols that provide at-a-glance information about the fishes' families, feeding habits, sizes, temperaments, swimming habits, and aquarium lighting requirements. It gives you all the information you need to identify and maintain marine fish.
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Dr. Burgess's Atlas Of Marine Aquarium Fishes
Price: $79.95
(784 Pages; Hardcover) - $79.95
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This 3rd edition, a truly beautiful and immensely colorful book, satisfies the long-existing need for a comprehensive identification guide to marine fishes. This book shows in full color not only the popular aquarium fishes but also the oddballs and weirdos, the large seaquarium-type fishes, both warmwater and coldwater fishes, as well as both foreign and domestic fishes. In short, this book has it all and has it in a format that will provide maximum utility to its reader. The fishes are grouped family by family in phylogenetic order--sharks and rays first, puffers and boxfishes last.The photos were taken predominantly by world-class fish photographers. Most photos are eight-to-the-page, but some of the most beautiful marine fishes are represented in full-page, full-color splendor.Not only does this book supply photos provided with up-to-date scientific names, but almost all of the captions indicate the family, range, size, and optimum aquarium conditions as well. Also included in this book are family-by-family write ups on the aquarium care of these fishes.
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