Don Harper
Don Harper is a professional pet journalist and Cambridge University graduate who has written many and varied pet care books and articles. Don has first-hand experience of keeping and breeding a wide range of aquarium fish and writes with great ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
The Aquarium Fish Survival Manual
 Still my best reference book...: This book has a lot of information in it. It is written plainly, and is easy to understand. Sometime it gets a bit to detailed for the beginner in some sections like lighting. As a reference for plants and fish (fresh/ [... more]
CDN$22.99
Amazon CA |
Diane Hammond
Diane Hammond, the author of two previous novels, Going to Bend and Homesick Creek, is the recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission literary fellowship and served as a spokesperson for the Free Willy Keiko Foundation and the Oregon Coast Aquarium. ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections To ...
The Zoo can get Hot! "Archives of Natural History": Congratulations on a fine book that really does fill a long-standing gap in the historical literature! Needless to say, I hope it sells well, and gets rave reviews! It deserves them. The [... more]
CDN$114.55
Amazon CA |
Handbook of Tropical Aquarium Fishes
Full of color photos: I liked this book because i could look up pictures of many different fish. it has a lot of general information on livebearers and egg layers. what i did not like was: 1. The information about the fish and the photos were not [... more]
CDN$15.94
Amazon CA |
Complete Encyclopedia of the Freshwater Aquarium
great book: this is a great book to have on hand lots of excellent photos inside Good, has needed info on rarer species, with updated names: I found information on fish that I could not find in other basic bread and butter books. While it does not have [... more]
CDN$49.95
Amazon CA |
The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the ...
Vol 2 is good, Vol 1 is better?: As a beginning reef aquarist (but not at all new to the hobby), I ordered Volume 2 of this series because that's the volume that contains information on soft corals--which was what I wanted to start with. But I was also [... more]
CDN$85.23
Amazon CA |
Ecology of the Planted Aquarium
I couldn't put it down, took pages of notes.: A few years ago, my brother and I owned pet shops, so I thought that I knew a bit about water chemistry. This book showed me that I didn't. So much information that has practical relevance. e.g.: If pH is [... more]
CDN$35.07
Amazon CA |
The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the ...
Very Good Book: This is a very good book on reef aquarium keeping, I just wish that I would have known before hand that volume one is clams and stony corals, and that volume two is soft coral. This fact alone would have been helpful in determining which [... more]
CDN$88.51
Amazon CA |
The Simple Guide to Freshwater Aquarium
Short on Specifics: If you're a beginning "aquarist" and you plan to buy only one book (for now) then don't buy The Simple Guide to Fresh Water Aquariums by David E. Boruchowitz. It makes a good "second" book for beginners but it is [... more]
CDN$18.70
Amazon CA |
Marine Reef Aquarium Handbook
compact reef guide: It should be rated at 5 stars but I give only 4 stars because of its technical nature and my beginner's comprehension. After that, it is a compact guide full of useful, hands-on info that helps the hobbyist create their own ideal [... more]
CDN$13.99
Amazon CA |
Marine Atlas: The Joint Aquarium Care of Invertebrates ...
Pretty good but missing some of the most popular fish: I purchased this book as a reference for all marine fish and reef organisms only to find that the marine atlas has A LOT of invertibrates and fish but missing Clown fish. It never occurs to me that [... more]
CDN$60.15
Amazon CA |
