Setting Up Your First Aquarium

By Herbert R. Axelrod

Book Overview

-- Easy-to-understand, informative guides -- Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs -- Fotoglaze TM laminated finish gives superior color gloss to all photographs This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791050874
• ISBN13: 9780791050873
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 12

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous, glossy full-color photographs.

This is a fabulous resource for the beginning aquarist, written simply and directly. Adults will appreciate the brevity of the material and the ease with which desired information can be found as much as the young readers for whom this book is meant will. It's amazing that such a range of topics can be so completely covered in such a short book. From choosing an aquarium to outfitting it properly, from selecting real and/or plastic plants to sorting through the dizzying array of fish available, Axelrod has ALL bases covered--thoroughly! The brilliant, true-to-life colors in the photographs accurately portray dozens of varieties of tropical fish that are available. Included are lots of pertinent details that are characteristic of the types of fish (temperament, ease of care and breeding, etc.--even relative costs of different breeds). The author even describes how the home/hobbyist aquarist can tell male fish from females! This book has it all. If you plan to set up an aquarium of your own--or even if you already have one--Herbert Axelrod's book will help you plan ahead and save yourself lots of time, worry, and money. Tropical fish can be a very time-consuming and expensive hobby, and your first step should be reading this book in order to learn as much as you can before making a huge investment in the wrong tank and/or fish. The price of this book can easily be recouped by the mistakes you'll avoid.