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Pet Supply Store  Fish Books
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Handbook Of Fish Diseases
Price: $35.95
(160 Pages; Hardcover) - $35.95
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This book is the most practical and complete fish disease book ever offered to aquarium hobbyists. Because of its simple style, this magnificent volume makes the diagnosis and treatment of fish diseases easier and surer than ever before. Keys to recognizing fish diseases and giving the right treatment are provided. It clearly illustrates symptoms and diseases and their causes. Treatment procedures are given a simple, easy-to-read series of magnificent graphs designed by Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod, the foremost authority on tropical fish in the world. Beginners as well as experts will find this book a valuable source of information that will insure the successful future of their aquariums. Chapters on fish anatomy, viral and bacterial diseases, fungal and aldal diseases, parasites, tumors, genetic abnormalities and much more are supplemented by sections dealing with valuable techniques such as staining and microscopy. The book also contains an extensive listing of drugs for treating fish diseases and, where possible, sources from which they can be obtained.
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Natural Reef Aquariums
Price: $34.95 - $44.95
(336 Pages; Paperback)
(336 Pages; Hardcover)
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Debunking the myth that reef aquariums need to be wildly expensive and technologically complex, John Tullock offers a new, radically simple approach to producing beautiful, captive microcosms. Using live rock and live sand as part of a natural filtration system, the home aquarist can now create vibrant reef tanks that are biologically stable and simple to maintain. With Tullock's suggestions, the reefkeeper can now mimic natural habitats such as a Micronesian Clam Reef, a Caribbean Turtle Grass Flat, a Gulf of Mexico Patch Reef, a Stony Coral Reef, an Indo-Pacific Deep Cave, or a Red Sea Shallow Fore Reef. With more than 200 color photographs and illustrations, Natural Reef Aquariums provides inspiration for both beginning and expert marine reef hobbyists.Contents Include:Understanding Live Rock & Live SandThe Biotope ApproachSimplified Filtration TechniquesRecommended Reef SpeciesComplete Planning GuidesHundreds of Unusual InvertebratesAuthentic AquascapesWorld-Class Reef Photographs
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Nature Aquarium World, Book 1
Price: $35.95
(183 Pages; Hardcover) - $35.95
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Learn how to make your aquarium a work of art and a part of your home. Takashi Amano uses Nature as his inspiration in designing breath-taking aquariums and in these books provides all the information needed to recreate these aquariums in your own home. This book contains photos of aquariums that by any reasonable standard can be considered to be among the most beautiful in the world, and it tells how the aquariums were put together, listing both the plants and fishes that they contain and providing details about their lighting and filtration systems, plant fertilizers used, type of substrate used, temperature, water chemistry, tank dimensions, and other vital elements.
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Nature Aquarium World, Book 2
Price: $39.95
(179 Pages; Hardcover) - $39.95
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Mr. Amano is acknowledged worldwide as the ultimate artist in aquarium decoration, design, layout and execution. He takes his inspirations from the world of Nature...especially as it exists in Japan. His work, photographed by him, is breathtaking. And now, you can make these same aquarium designs in your own home. This book and its companion volumes (1 and 3) were designed specifically to allow owners of aquariums to set up their tanks and decorate them according to precepts laid down by Nature herself. Beautiful photos capture the artistic enchantment of each tank and identifications of the plants and fish, as well as all the technical data that is necessary, is supplied along with each glorious photo. This book covers aquarium sizes up to 50 gallons; Book 3 covers larger tanks.
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Nature Aquarium World, Book 3
Price: $29.95
(300 Pages; Hardcover) - $29.95
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Mr. Amano is acknowledged worldwide as the ultimate artist in aquarium decoration, design, layout and execution. He takes his inspirations from the world of Nature...especially as it exists in Japan. His work, photographed by him, is breathtaking. And now, you can make these same aquarium designs in your own home. This book and its companion volumes (1 and 2) were designed specifically to allow owners of aquariums to set up their tanks and decorate them according to precepts laid down by Nature herself. Beautiful photos capture the artistic enchantment of each tank and identifications of the plants and fish, as well as all the technical data that is necessary, is supplied along with each glorious photo. This book covers aquarium sizes from 50- 5,000 gallons in capacity; Book 2 covers tanks smaller than 50 gallons.
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New Marine Aquarium
Price: $19.95
(144 Pages; Paperback) - $19.95
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Creating a beautiful, thriving first saltwater aquarium has never been easier, using the natural, simplified methods learned and practiced by the world's leading reef hobbyists. By helping newcomers avoid the pitfalls of outdated, high-maintenance filtration techniques, Michael Paletta offers an easy-to-follow route to long-term success with live rock, appropriate equipment, aquascaping, disease prevention, and essential husbandry techniques. Includes a photographic guide to selecting fishes, with dozens of hardy choices that are highly recommended for beginning hobbyists or others wanting beautiful, interesting, and long-lived marine species. Contents include:How to avoid the classic saltwater setup mistakesPlanning cheklists and no-nonsense equipment choicesLow-maintenance, high-success filtration using live rockIllustrated, step-by-step startup and aquascaping techniquesA photographic guide to the best, hardiest fish species for beginners
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Pocket Expert Guide To Marine Fishes
Price: $29.95
(447 Pages; Paperback) - $29.95
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Like a field guide to marine aquarium fishes, this first PocketExpertT Guide offers a quick, but authoritative reference for identifying, buying, and keeping more than 500 popular saltwater species. Designed by a team of marine enthusiasts and aquarium professionals, this information-packed handbook covers all of the fishes most often seen by hobbyists. "One species per page" listing offers concise, clear advice and data on: scientific and common names, maximum length, range, minimum aquarium size, foods and feeding, aquarium suitability, reef aquarium compatibility, behavior, and captive care advice. Included are all 29 major families and groups of marine aquarium fishes, ranging from angelfishes, butterflyfishes, and cardinalfishes to surgeonfishes, triggerfishes, and wrasses.
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Reef Fishes Volume 1
Price: $59.95 - $74.95
(624 Pages; Paperback)
(624 Pages; Hardcover)
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Covering 68 families and thousands of species, Reef Fishes is an authoritative guide designed to be a lifelong reference for saltwater aquarists, divers, and amateur reef naturalists. This volume covers coral reef habitats and fish families, with detailed information on the following groups: Moray EelsConger & Garden EelsSnake EelsEel CatfishesLizardfishesLivebearing BrotulasToadfishesFrogfishesWalking BatfishesFlashlight FishesPineapple FishesSquirrelfishes and SoldierfishesTrumpetfishesSea MothsGhost PipefishesSeahorses & PipefishesShrimpfishesCoral CrouchersWaspfishesScorpionfishes, LionfishesFlatheadsHelmet GurnardsDwarf Seabasses, Hamlets, Anthias.
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Reef Life
Price: $29.95
(224 Pages; Paperback) - $29.95
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From the fantastic (tiny fish that live within the anal cavity of sea cucumbers) to the astonishingly beautiful (rare corals and other invertebrates in a kaleidoscope of colors), the animals of the coral reef almost never fail to elicit a "Wow!" from those fortunate enough to see them alive and at close range. Based on more than a decade of painstaking, close-up observations and brilliant underwater photography, Reef Life offers an unforgettably illustrated, clearly explained introduction to the biology and organisms of the coral reef. Technical advisors to this project include several leading marine biologists, ichthyologists, zoologists, and reef aquarists.You'll never look at a reef in the same way again. Includes:Fantastic Life Forms: rare and unusual reef animals captured in their natural hauntsFace-to-Face Encounters: intimate observations from over a decade of underwater researchBiology In Action: fundamental lessons in reproduction and other marine life processes.Profiles in Biodiversity: the fishes, invertebrates, and other animals of the coral realm.
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Success with Cichlids from Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika
Price: $29.95
(192 Pages; Hardcover) - $29.95
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This book covers every topic of importance to anyone setting out to enter the rewarding world of keeping the fascinating and colorful fishes from Africa's lakes Malawi and Tanganyika. Additionally, even experienced keepers of the species will benefit from the insights passed along by the author as the result of her long experience with these colorful fish. This book also explores the reasons behind the great popularity of African Rift Lake cichlids and shows on a species-by-species basis those facets of the fishes' looks and personalities and behavioral quirks---especially their breeding patterns---that have endeared them to fish hobbyists the world over. It tells readers what they need to know in order to maintain these highly colorful, but often highly belligerent as well, much-in-demand African cichlids.Includes discussions of the best ways to set your aquaria housing cichlids including such important considerations as the heating and filtration equipment, plants, lighting and positioning the tank. Additional sections explore water quality maintenance, the fishes' food requirements, treatment of diseases and parasites and breeding of both mouthbrooding and substrate-spawning species. This colorfully illustrated, book is a blueprint for building an immensely satisfying connection to one of the aquarium hobby's most rewarding areas.
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The Completely Illustrated Guide To Koi For Your Pond
Price: $59.95
(312 Pages; Hardcover) - $59.95
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This book is a perfect combination: a big, good-looking, colorful book about koi that also is a big, colorful, good-looking book about garden ponds. In it, Dr. Axelrod and his co-authors manage to bridge the gaps between all of the different koi types being bred in the world today from the purely classical colors and shapes of the traditional Japanese koi right through the Israeli and American modifications on the basic Japanese theme: the new American-bred long-finned koi being one example. Apart from all of the beautiful full-color photos--all coated with plastic to give added vitality and durability-- and the very practical considerations involved in setting up a koi pond and keeping its inhabitants in good health, the book also contains fascinating reading dealing with the history of cultivated carp dating all the way back to the first century B.C. A must for koi people.
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The Essential Freshwater Aquarium
Price: $7.95
(92 Pages; Freshwater Aquarium) - $7.95
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Owning an aquarium is rewarding and fun! Get all you need to know about setting up a freshwater aquarium, choosing the right fish for you and keeping your fish in the best of health in The Essential Freshwater Aquarium. Special features include professional color photos, helpful sidebars and lists and expert tips on how to make your fish a wonderful addition to the family. Learn how to have an aquarium that the whole family will enjoy with The Essential Freshwater Aquarium.Contents include:Fish FundamentalsAll About AquariumsA Quality HomeFreshwater Fish FamiliesChoosing the Right FishFish NutritionTo Good HealthResources, Recommended Reading, and Index
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