With a total of more than 1000 pages and over 1300 photos covering aquarium setup and management and aquariums plants in addition to the fishes themselves, Aquarium Fishes of the World is a compact, but comprehensive and colorful source of information and photos, a very fine value in aquarium literature. The fish catalog section alone contains more than 686 pages featuring descriptions and photos of more than 870 species. This is accompanied by two other highly detailed sections, one for aquarium plants and planting arrangements and one for aquarium setup and management.Readers who want to refer to Aquarium Fishes of the World for information about a particular fish or plant or an aquarium problem they might have will find the book's organization in distinct sections to be remarkably helpful. Readers who just want to pore through its invitingly colorful pages to have their aquaristic horizons broadened will be thoroughly satisfied. Beginners and those others who aren't familiar with scientific names of fishes will be benefited greatly by the fact that the index to the fish section is cross-referenced by both scientific and common names. All in all, this book is a permanently useful and attractive guide to the freshwater aquarium and a wide range of its dazzlingly colorful and interesting fishes. By Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod, Dr. Wareen E. Burgess, Neal Pronek, Glen S. Axelrod, David E. Boruchowitz.
