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Tropical Fish Keeping => General Fishkeeping Chat => Topic started by: Rustle on February 14, 2018, 06:10:43 PM

Title: Fish keeping books
Post by: Rustle on February 14, 2018, 06:10:43 PM

I wonder if anyone knows of a good fish book that tells you just about everything from habitats to breeding and species. just about everything. A good encyclopedia or something along those lines.

Title: Re: Fish keeping books
Post by: fcmf on February 14, 2018, 07:13:29 PM

I had the following out on loan from the local library recently and would thoroughly recommend it [sorry, just copied and pasted it from the library system, so the referencing format is a bit awry!]:
Aquarium manual : the complete step-by-step guide to keeping fish : useful tips on setting up, filtration, fish health, equipment, maintenance / Jeremy Gay. Sparkford : Haynes, 2009.

Title: Re: Fish keeping books
Post by: Rustle on February 15, 2018, 07:23:21 AM

That's great thank you fcmf i never even knew haynes did a fish manual  :)

Title: Re: Fish keeping books
Post by: fcmf on February 25, 2018, 01:42:46 PM

Another one worth a look at is: Bailey, Mary and Sandford, Gina. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Aquarium Fish & Fish Care. Anness Publishing, 2014. It has a bit more prose in it and is less structured in its layout and therefore less easy to read than the previous one I mentioned, though.

Title: Re: Fish keeping books
Post by: Rustle on February 27, 2018, 06:13:10 PM

Thanks again fcmf I did look at this but read some reviews about the print being tiny which put me off as my eyesight is not good these days.