Our Native Fishes: The Aquarium Hobbyist's Guide to Observing, Collecting, and Keeping Them: North American Freshwater and Marine Fishes

by John R. Quinn

Explains how to set up an aquarium and introduces many freshwater and marine fishes and other aquatic creatures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881501816
• ISBN13: 9780881501810
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Informative Book on an Unorthodox Hobby

A classic book on the keeping of North American native fishes. Quinn provides some excellent no-nonsense information on collecting, and sucessfully keeping the more common native species. If you're into keeping gamefish like I am, this is definitely the book for you. My only problem with the book lies in the visual arena: no color photographs and grainy fish drawings. Yuck. If this book utilized color photographs to represent these fishes, then I would give it the full 5 stars. An updated re-release is desperately needed. Despite that, this is probably the greatest book on a very unorthodox hobby. Lets hope this changes soon, as fantastic surprises await many unsuspecting aquarists.