Overview
An invaluable guide for all fishkeepers keen to learn more about the fascinating and delicate creatures in their care.Using clear text, colour photographs and stunning illustrations, this book provides a unique 'behind the scenes' look at how freshwater fish live in their natural and captive environments. It explores all aspects of their everyday lives, including their basic structure, how they sense the world around them and how they reproduce.
The book closes with an overview of popular freshwater fish, a guide to their classification and a helpful glossary of terms.
Author Biography: Dick Mills, author of many aquarium books, is a former editor of The Aquarist & Pondkepper magazine and also a Vice-President of the Federation of British Aquatic Societies. He has kept aquarium and pond fish continously for the last 40 years, but also finds time to travel, when -as if by accident - he always manages to come across a public aquarium or two.