Aquariums For Dummies

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Keeping an aquarium adds beauty and grace to your life. That elegant little world in a glass box can be your respite from the cares of the day and even can lower your blood pressure. It can be a great outlet for your artistic impulses, and educational for your kids. And when it comes to pets, you can’t go wrong with fish. They eat little, require minimal space, and need no training. They never stray, bay at the moon, or leave surprises on your lawn. They’re not prone to rude sniffing, and they won’t chase your ...
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Keeping an aquarium adds beauty and grace to your life. That elegant little world in a glass box can be your respite from the cares of the day and even can lower your blood pressure. It can be a great outlet for your artistic impulses, and educational for your kids. And when it comes to pets, you can’t go wrong with fish. They eat little, require minimal space, and need no training. They never stray, bay at the moon, or leave surprises on your lawn. They’re not prone to rude sniffing, and they won’t chase your letter carrier. And fish never get hairballs or scratch your furniture.

Aquariums For Dummies answers all your fishy questions about keeping an aquarium and makes it easy to get into the swim of things with your own freshwater, brackish, or marine aquarium. You’ll 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

With humor and without a lot of jargon, expert Maddy and Mic Hargrove cover all the bases. They give you step-by-step instructions on how to select equipment and set up your aquarium. And they explore an array of important and fun topics, including:

  • Tanks, water sources, substrates and decorations, and water testing
  • Live plants for freshwater and brackish aquariums and invertebrates for marine aquariums
  • Fish anatomy and physiology (plus a guide to dozens of freshwater coldwater, tropical marine, and brackish fish)
  • Choosing a quality dealer and developing a good relationship with them
  • Deciding what the right speciesfor you and selecting fish
  • Fish diet and nutrition
  • Diagnosing and treating diseases in fish
  • Breeding fish for fun and profit

A fun and easy guide to creating and maintaining a beautiful aquarium, Aquariums For Dummies is your entrée to the fascinating and rewarding world of fishkeeping.

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Auariums for Dummies is a book I would recommend to the neophyte who is contemplating setting up a home aquarium since the money spent will be repaid many times if the advice and tips that are a feature of the book are followed by the reader.
—Freshwater and Marine Aquarium
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764551567
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/28/1999
  • Series: For Dummies Series
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 360
  • Product dimensions: 7.44 (w) x 9.16 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Meet the Author

Maddy Hargrove writes regularly for every major fishkeeping magazine, including Marine Monthly. Mic Hargrove, an expert technical advisor on aquarium equipment and water chemistry, writes for tropical fish magazines.
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Table of Contents

Introduction.

PART I: Aquarium Setup.

Chapter 1: The Practice of Aquarium Keeping.

Chapter 2: Finding a Good Location.

Chapter 3: The Tank and Stand.

Chapter 4: Substrates and Decorations.

Chapter 5: The Equipment (And Other Technical Stuff).

Chapter 6: Water Sources (All Water Is Not Created Equal).

Chapter 7: Those Crazy Chemicals.

Chapter 8: The Nitrogen Cycle and Water Testing.

Chapter 9: Putting It All Together.

PART II: Plants and Invertebrates.

Chapter 10: Live Plants for Freshwater and Brackish Aquariums.

Chapter 11: Invertebrates for the Marine Aquarium.

PART III: The Fish.

Chapter 12: Fish Anatomy.

Chapter 13: Species Guide.

Chapter 14: Purchasing Your Fish.

PART IV: Caring for Your Aquatic Friends.

Chapter 15: Diet and Nutrition for Your Wet Pets.

Chapter 16: Diseases and Treatments.

PART V: Breeding Your Fish for Fun and Profit.

Chapter 17: The Breeding Room.

Chapter 18: Let's Spawn!

PART VI: Fun Stuff.

Chapter 19: Recording Data and Photography Methods.

Chapter 20: Fish Shows.

PART VII: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 21: Ten Cool Aquarium Gadgets (For Work and Play).

Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Kill Your Fish without Even Trying.

Chapter 23: Nine Horrible Fish That You Never Want to Own.

Chapter 24: Ten Scientific Fish Laws.

Chapter 25: Ten Aquatic New Year's Resolutions.

Chapter 26: More Than Ten Resources.

Appendix: Tank Figures and Facts.

Index.

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