Re: Need recommendation for good Referance Book

[Flash Wilson]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:51:42 GMT, Krazy K > wrote:
>I am looing to jumping back into fish and am somewhat bewildered by
>the books out there. Any recommendations on a good referance book on
>fish, habitate, ph etc? Thanks

Everyone seems to recommend the Baench Atlas series. I bought all three
but really only needed book 1 in reflection.

It's an encyclopedia of fish, so you then do the work yourself to
match fish with similar needs. It also has a few good pages of
guidance.

Other than that I'd say do the reading online and start at the Krib :)

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Flash . o O ( www.gorge.org )

[Eric Schreiber]

Krazy K > wrote:

>I am looing to jumping back into fish and am somewhat bewildered by
>the books out there. Any recommendations on a good referance book on
>fish, habitate, ph etc? Thanks

A good argument can be made to just skip books completely and use the
internet as your resource. There's a lot of crap on the net, but the
fish related areas are pretty reliable, and things like newsgroups are
'peer reviewed' by default.

There are experts here on just about every aspect of fish keeping, and
they're happy to share their knowledge (I say they, not we, because
I'm not one of the experts - yet!)


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www.ericschreiber.com

[Harry Muscle]

"Krazy K" > wrote in message
...
> I am looing to jumping back into fish and am somewhat bewildered by
> the books out there. Any recommendations on a good referance book on
> fish, habitate, ph etc? Thanks

It's not a fish atlas (ie: doesn't contain fish profiles) however, the best
book I've ever read on fish is:

"Tropical Fishlopaedia - A Complete Guide to Fish Care" by Mary Bailey and
Peter Burgess
ISBN 1-58245-166-4

It contains almost 200 pages of information about all the different diseases
that can affect fish, how to treat them, which medications are good, etc.
There's lots more info (ie: it's 350 pages) but the disease part is what I
found most practical since it's the hardest to find anywhere else. Even
weird questions that come up only once in a while you can probably find the
answer to in this book (ie: why is my fish coughing ... it's in this book).

Anyway, I love the book, that's all,
Harry




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[Joseph]

The Biotope Aquarium (Stawikowski, Rainer) and Exotic Aquarium Fishes
(Innes, Dr. William T.) are good resources for ideas. BUT (a big
but), remember that major changes have happened in this hobby with in
the last 15 - 25 years, and is still changing! You can ask 10
different people for advice, and get 10 different answers, and all of
those who answer will swear that they have the only right answer.

BTW: Will you be keeping a journal about the tank? This can be
valuable...

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:51:42 GMT, Krazy K >
wrote:

>I am looing to jumping back into fish and am somewhat bewildered by
>the books out there. Any recommendations on a good referance book on
>fish, habitate, ph etc? Thanks

[coelacanth]

I find books to be most useful as a reference
for specific questions (Fishlopedia and Baensch,
in particular) For more general information, find
a really good LFS. They will be most helpful
in dealing with the local water, etc. In fact, just
move to Ottawa and find NetMax's store ;). Or,
if you're unwilling to move, let us know where
you are and someone may be able to recommend
a great LFS.

-coelacanth


"Krazy K" > wrote in message
...
> I am looing to jumping back into fish and am somewhat bewildered by
> the books out there. Any recommendations on a good referance book on
> fish, habitate, ph etc? Thanks