The Guide to Owning Discus

by ary E. Sweeney

ISBN: 0793803551, Code: RE606

This book shows how even first-time discus owners can succeed in the keeping and breeding of the beautiful and popular discus species and subspecies, including many of the much sought-after (and expensive new color varieties that have come onto the market in recent years). It provides plenty of practical information and valuable experience-based advice about water conditions, selecting specimens, breeding, health care, and more.

The Guide to Owning Goldfish

by Spencer Glass

ISBN: 0793803578, Code: RE608

Designed for beginners, this book leads them by the hand into the joys and rewards of keeping goldfish. It shows many different popular types of goldfish, from the very common to the very fancy, and explains what they need in the way of everyday care and handling, with particular attention paid to selecting and setting up the aquarium and its equipment.

The Guide to Owning Malawi Cichlids

by David E. Boruchowitz

ISBN: 0793803594, Code: RE610

Concentrating on the basics but including a very generous amount of information useful to even long-time keepers of the cichlids o f Lake Malawi in Africa's Rift Valley---especially those known generally as mbun---this is a truly helpful and useful gyuidebook. It covers the type of tank setups required for housing these combative and territory-minded fishes, the best way to feed them, how they breed, health care, and much more.

The Guide to Starting a Marine Aquarium

by David E. Boruchowitz

ISBN: 0793803608, Code: RE611H

With the growth of popularity of the marine aquarium hobby, here is a book that satisfies the need for a book that provides a solidly practical foundation on which beginners can build their first marine aquariums. All of the basics are explained fully and well, with special attention paid to the differences between freshwater and saltwater aquariums as regards their equipment and water chemistry. The nitrogen cycle is thoroughly covered.

The Guide to Owning Swordtails

by Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod & Dr. Myron Gordon

ISBN: 0793803659, Code: RE616

An excellent blend of scientific and popular writing, this book is both revealing and entertaining. It covers some of the rarer swordtail Xiphophorus species as well as the most common, and it shows Xiphophorus helleri, the most popular species, in its many different color and fin forms, including the magnificent hi-fin varieties. Full coverage of aquarium management techniques used in keeping these interesting and good-looking livebearers is provided.

The Guide to Owning Tropical Fish

by Neal Pronek

ISBN: 0793803675, Code: RE618

Primarily an identification guide to commonly available freshwater fish species, with practical advice about which ones are good for beginners and which ones should be avoided, The Guide to Owning Tropical Fish also provides specific advice that helps readers to head off aquarium troubles before they begin. Also contains a section about the taxonomic classification of fishes that dispels much of the mystery surrounding scientific names.

The Guide to Owning Koi

by David Barouchowitz

ISBN: 079380373X, Code: RE624

This is a well-written book sure to five any beginning koi keeper sufficient background to start up a first pond. Heavy emphasis is given to basic steps in setting up a koi pond, including filtration systems and plantings. Koi information includes varieties, feeding and breeding as well as general maintenance.

The Guide to Owning Rainbowfishes

by Derek Lambert

ISBN: 0793803764, Code: RE627

The rainbowfishes — fishes of the genera Melanotaenia, Glossolepis, Iriatherina, Telmatherina, Pseudomugil, and some others are much more available on the hobbby market than they used to be, and this book gives an increasingly popular group first-rate coverage in an interesting and very useful account of their care and breeding with nots about their conservation in the wild.