Aquarium Fish: How to Care for Them, Feed Them, and Understand ThemA volume of Barron's Family Pet Series, AQUARIUM FISH offers information and advice on selecting fish for a freshwater aquarium tank, maintaining variety, keeping a chemically balanced aquarium, purchasing necessary equipment, feeding the fish, and cleaning the tank. This book also will help readers keep an aquarium that is enjoyable for both children and adults to observe. Profusely illustrated in full-color. |
Contents
fish before buying | 7 |
What You Should | 15 |
Every Fish Species | 22 |
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African algae Algae Problems algae-eaters Amano Ancistrus angelfish Apistogramma Aqua Design Amano aquar aquarium Aquarium arrangement aquarium fish aquarium water barb Barbus Biotope character blackwater bottom brine shrimp carbon dioxide carbonate hardness characins CO₂ color Corydoras Cryptocoryne Diet driftwood dry food dwarf cichlids eggs equipment external filter feed females filter material fins glass catfish gnat larvae gourami hiding places insects install killifish labyrinth fish Lake Malawi lamp-eye larger layer live food live-bear loach mailed catfish maintenance male Mbuna ment mouthbrooder Nanochromis nitrate nutrients Otocinclus oxygen pair partial water change pet store dealer pH value photograph plant growth Possible causes Rain Forest Brook rainbow fish Rasbora red-tailed black shark Remedies Rosette school fish South America spawning Species Size Tank substrate Suggestions for fish swim Synodontis Tank Type Temperature tap water territory tion tubes Type Temperature Photo Water Fish Species water plants Water Type wild