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.

Written by a leading expert who not only studies the Malawi cichlids, but also imports, breeds and sells them, this book is the perfect identification guide for the hard-to-tell-apart Malawi species and morphs. It concentrates on the cichlids, of course, and it provides plenty of easy-to absorb text about caring for and breeding them. Among the over 1200 full-color photos, there are photos taken in the lake to show fishes in their true-to-life best.

At last, a book for the beginning betta-keeper with everything you need to know about caring for the beautiful siamese fighting fish. The Betta: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish will walk you through every stage of successful betta care--from selecting the right tank to breeding your own gorgeous bettas. Proper water chemistry, temperature and good tankmates for the betta are discussed in full, as well as how to feed your fish and keep them in the best of health.Written by experienced fish-keepers, The Betta: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish includes a wealth of information to help you understand your betta's behavior so that caring for your fish is all the more fun. With info-packed sidebars and stunning color photographs, this is the betta book that hobbyists will enjoy most.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Containing 992 pages and more than 1,800 full-color photos, this masterful reference work and identification guide is not "min" in any sense except in comparison to its much larger brother, the full-size Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes. This mini-Atlas contains a 256-page section dealing with aquarium maintenance, plants, and fish breeding, in addition to almost 700 pages of photos identifying - and providing maintenance information about- aquarium fishes from all over the world. The fishes shown are indexed by both scientific and popular names for ease of reference. This mini-Atlas has one of its handiest features the use of space-saving symbols in the captions. Besides giving the fishes' scientific names, the captions also include numbers and symbols that provide at-a-glance information about feeding habits, aquarium lighting, aquarium setup, reproduction, temperament, and other factors. Feeding Habits: dry, packaged foods; live worms, daphnia, etc.; live fishes; vegetarian. Temperament: peaceful community species; aggressive or not recommended for beginners. Reproduction: egglayer; livebearer; mouthbrooder. Aquarium Setup: planted aquarium; rocky aquarium; gravel, no decorations; mixed decorations. Aquarium lighting: bright, moderate, subdued. Swimming Habits: bottom dweller; no special swimming level; surface swimmer; mid-water swimmer.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.