Aquariums for Dummies by Maddy Hargrove, Mic Hargrove (1999, Paperback, Illustrated)

Setting up your first aquarium is essential to know all the rules, Water conditions, pH levels, correct lighting, fish, invertebrates on both freshwater and marine aquariums detailed inside book. Photos (color) are located after page 166. Book has 328 pages, softcover, choosing the right aquarium, selection on fish, maintaining a healthy aquarium, selection and buying tank equipment.

Live plants chapter 10, water sources chapter 6, substrates & decorations chapter 4, aquarium gadgets chapter 21, let's spawn chapter 18 & last chapter 26 more than ten resources. Most know setting up a new tank is not fun or exciting, I recommend book on a friendly guide feeling for any first time aquarist.

Book also talks about fish, which ones live together and specific fish to look for for easy aquarium fun. I was surprised to see how well book tasks on, plants / fish / filtration / aquarium water conditions & more you need to read about.

I rate 5***** on this book Aquariums for Dummies.

I have always found Dummies to be very useful, but this one did not live up to the usual standard. Perhaps it is to outdated already since there are new developments all the time in fish keeping equipment.

The book contains a lot of useful information and in an effort to cover all there is to know about aquariums it is vauge about diseases in fish. They don't offer enough detail which makes diagnosing hard. Overall though I would recomend it to any new comer to the field.

I bought this book as I had recently bought fish! The book as easy and simple to read for the beginner. However, on a couple of points it was confusing, so I had to go to another source to find out the information. But, overall I would give this book a thumbs up!

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I've kept freshwater fish for over thirty years and this is the only aquarium book that gets straight to the point and answers all of your questions directly and not indirectly like all other aquarium books. The book says exactly what it means. Great book for beginners and experienced fish keepers alike. No matter what your experience level get the book you will learn something new.

This book is great. It really helped me save my fish that were slowly dying because of my water conditions. I also learned a lot of very valuable information about fish & taking care of them. I highly recommend this for all aquarium owners.

Great information, easy to follow, nice to see photos of fish and aquaria(just wish for a few more), Would recommend for any novice aquarium owner..

I bought the "Aquariums for dummies" book to learn how to help my daughter with her new 10 gal. aquarium, however I found the book so interesting and so well written that I have just bought my own 20 gal. aquarium today and can't wait to start my own collection fish.
The book was a very easy read. All the information was straight forward and presented in a very humorous way, but was not lacking in any way. All my questions were answered ( including the ones I didn't know I had ) in a manner that left me both informed and not feeling like an idiot.
I know that this will be my primary resource for all my questions and concerns with regaurd to my new aquarium hobby.

Thank You
Dave

It was a great book for the price i got it for. The only thing i didn't like about it, was you stated that the book was in "new" condition, and you could clearly see that it wasn't, due to the scratches and slighty bent corners. Other than that, I thought it was great! Thanks

I have been around aquariums my entire life, I'll be 51 in June, and I've always seemed to do pretty good with most of the fish that I have had. Aquariums are a very important part of my life, they are very relaxing and interesting to have around, to me they are a living work of art.I saw this book for sale on here and I honestly thought that it wasn't a serious book about aquariums, like a joke book, boy was I wrong. But this book has helped me understand and learn alot of things that I didn't know about aquariums, it is a wealth of information but it is worded in a way that I can understand and relate to. I would definatly recommend this book for anyone from a beginner to the advanced aquarists. I have a 120, 55, 2-29, and 2-20 gallon aquariums and my tanks look even better than they did, and my fish are healthier and happier. Good luck and Happy Aquariuming!

Great book full of useful information broken down into understandable english. Almost jargon free something for all levels of experience here on many different subjects across the entire hobby

I was new to the aquarium hobby, so all of this was very useful information. However, this book is a bit out of date. Several new techniques and accepted theories have arisen since the book was written. But for a bare bones, 'only-what-you-need-to-know' kind of book, the Dummies series is THE way to go. As I said, I was a new aquarist; after I read this book, I felt like I knew everything to get a very cool aquarium started on my own. Good book!

I have been into freshwater tropical aquariums for several years now. I bought this book to see what kind of tips I could get for saltwater. I am preparing for an attempt at it. I think this book is a great investment for a begining aquarist or someone that has experience. The layout is very simple and you do not have to read it from cover to cover to get some tips from it. I did find it quite interesting and read several chapters that I didn't figure on reading. I personally did not find any downfalls to owning this book. I will use it as a reference for years to come.

This book was ok i will say. Thats why i happend to be a guy who's going to have a fish tank at home for the first time. but what i really thought the book will have all the pages in colour, but it had a few pages in colour and the rest in black and white.
But this book gave me some good ideas about the fish and also to take care.