| 300 Questions about the Aquarium
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Aquarium hobbyists will refer to this handbook time and time again for general information and for advice on dealing with everyday problems. The bookas question-and-answer format is divided into six general categories that deal with all aspects of stocking and maintaining a home aquarium. They include selecting fish varieties, equipment for the home tank, fish anatomy and the traits of different varieties, compatible fish varieties for the aquarium, feeding and water maintenance, and recognizing diseases and keeping a healthful tank environment. Each section has color-coded page edges for fast and easy reference. The book features hundreds of color photos plus information-filled tables and sidebars.
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PRICE: $14.99
 
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| 500 Freshwater Aquarium Fish: A Visual Reference to the Most Popular Species
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A well-illustrated reference guide to 500 of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish providing at-a-glance information each species behavior, diet and breeding along with a recommended aquarium set up.
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PRICE: $29.95
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| 500 Ways to Be a Better Freshwater Fishkeeper: Hints and Tips from a Team of Experts
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Comprehensive and practical advice from contributors to leading fishkeeping magazines: 500 tips, logically organized for quick navigation and including step-by-step instructions and color photographs.
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PRICE: $24.95
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| 500 Ways to Be a Better Saltwater Fishkeeper: Hints and Tips from a Team of Experts
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Comprehensive and practical advice from contributors to leading fishkeeping magazines: 500 tips, logically organized for quick navigation and including step-by-step instructions and color photographs.
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PRICE: $24.95
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| A Practical Guide to Setting Up Your Marine Tropical Aquarium
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Creating and maintaining a thriving saltwater aquarium is not a task for the faint-hearted. It requires attention to many details and special understanding of seawater chemistryÑbut the rewards for the hobbyist are worth the effort. Here's a guide that makes setting up a marine aquarium easier. The brilliantly illustrated Tankmaster Books are for serious aquarium hobbyists, as well as beginners who want to know more about keeping an aquarium. Tankmaster books show rather than merely tell the details of aquarium maintenance with pages filled with full-color photos and diagrams. Written instruction takes the form of enlightening picture captions and labels that explain all details in each illustration. More than 200 illustrations in every volume.
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PRICE: $9.95
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| Advanced Marine Aquarium Techniques
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Even for long-time hobbyists, the thought of maintaining a thriving aquatic ecosystem can sometimes be overwhelming, especially when attempting to keep any of the rare or particularly challenging species available in the marine aquarium trade today. These species often provide unique challenges that require creative solutions. No other book written to the average hobbyist addresses topics like fish mass determination, fish pharmacology, or ethics and aquariums. The author also thoroughly addresses common problems such as diet and nutrition, tankmate selection, and maintaining proper water quality. In addition to detailed care information for a wide variety of both common and rare fish species, this book covers non-fish aquatic animals, such as octopuses, rare shrimps, and other invertebrates. Inspiring photographs highlight the awesome beauty of a variety of marine creatures while numerous graphs and charts make the information easy to understand and apply.
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PRICE: $49.95
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| American Aquarium Fishes
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For many tropical fish hobbyists and breeders, information on aquarium keeping is limited to goldfish and exotic fishes commonly available in pet stores. Existing guides ignore native American species simply because few people have collected, kept, and successfully propagated them, and reliable information is difficult to find. In American Aquarium Fishes, Robert J. Goldstein and other serious aquarists applying their specialized expertise on North American fishes have compiled a comprehensive guide to hundreds of native fishes suitable for the home aquarium.
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PRICE: $40.00
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| An Essential Guide to Choosing Your Coldwater Aquarium Fish
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PRICE: $9.95
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| Aquarium Care of Bettas
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Bettas are a unique tropical fish with attractive features. This handy book makes it easy and fun to find favorites from the many different types of bettas, and is a great tool to help make the best care choices for these colorful fish.
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PRICE: $11.95
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| Aquarium Care of Cichlids
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Cichlids are popular and attractive fish that require specific care and maintenance. This easy-to-follow guide provides clear and concise information on how to keep cichlids healthy and thriving in home aquariums.
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PRICE: $11.95
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| Aquarium Care of Fancy Guppies
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Fancy guppies are one of the most popular aquarium fish around the world. This book assists with making guppy selections and offers valuable information on keeping, breeding, and showcasing these fancy fish.
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PRICE: $11.95
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| Aquarium Care of Livebearers
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Written by an expert on livebearing fish, this comprehensive yet easy-to-read guide offers advice on a wide range of care issues from diet and nutrition to species selection and health care. Livebearer species covered include the popular platies, mollies, swordtails, and guppies.
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PRICE: $10.95
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| Aquarium Care of Oscars
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The oscar is an intelligent and enjoyable fish to own. From selection to health and nutrition concerns, this book helps take the guesswork out of taking the best care of oscars in a home aquarium.
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PRICE: $11.95
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| Aquarium Corals: Selection, Husbandry, and Natural History
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Keeping live corals has been likened to "Bonsai for the Cousteau generation" and "the ultimate underwater gardening experience." Beautiful, bizarre, and among nature's most colorful creations, living corals are now being successfully kept and grown in tens of thousands of home saltwater aquariums.
For the first time, master aquarist Eric Borneman offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and fully illustrated guide to appropriate aquarium species, including a diversity of soft corals, as well as popular and rare large-polyp and small-polyp stony corals. World-class photographs and text reviewed by leading coral biologists and coral keepers guides the reader through the selection and husbandry of hundreds of species.
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PRICE: $59.95
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| Aquarium Designs Inspired by Nature
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This lavishly photo-filled volume demonstrates that having an aquarium to be proud of means much more than keeping fish in a glass tank. The aquarium enthusiast who takes his hobby seriously reproduces a part of the aquatic natural environment in miniature inside his home. Author Peter Hiscock offers practical instructions on setting up a freshwater tropical aquarium. He describes substrate, aquarium plants, and appropriate combinations of fish. Much of this book focuses on fish and plant life in nature, and then offers details on replicating natural settings in the aquarium. Both plants and fish varieties are shown in vivid color photos and described in detail. More than 450 color photos and illustrations.
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PRICE: $27.95
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