Aquarium Fish: A Portrait of the Animal World

Fish-keeping today is a widespread and very popular hobby, and unlike earlier naturalists, modern aquarists have a great deal of highly technical equipment available to them, and well over a hundred years of expertise and experience to draw on. An immense variety of fish is available to the amateur aquarist. Tropical freshwater species are still the most popular, but cold-water aquarium fish like the goldfish, found in a great range of colors and forms, are also very widely kept. Saltwater aquaria present more problems than freshwater, but with the great advances in equipment design in recent years, tropical marine fish-plus organisms like anemones, prawns, and corals-can be kept by a reasonably skilled amateur. Cold-water marine species can be kept successfully, too, provided the correct equipment is available. AQUARIUM FISH, another work in a popular series of books on the animal kingdom, is an illustrated, practical guide to the rewarding hobby of fish-keeping.