Manual of Fish Health

by: Chris, Dr. Andrews, Adrian Exell, Neville, Dr. Carrington

Topics include: fish pox, black spot and eye fluke, repeating systemic bacterial infections, filtration over activated carbon, tapwater conditioners, neon tetra disease, marine white spot, digenetic flukes, juvenile parasites, gill problems, listless behaviour, rapid gill movements, infested fish, yellow grub, percent stock solution, percent water change, fish louse, regular partial water changes, fish host, poor water conditions, affected fish, anchor worm, white spot disease, fish lice, fancy goldfish

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Book Description A comprehensive guide for fish hobbyists. A healthy environment is crucial for all aquariums. It is often a challenge to understand what fish need to survive apart from a tank of water and a daily sprinkle of fish food. The Manual of Fish Health is a fully illustrated and highly informative guide covering: - Maintaining a healthy aquatic environment - Recognizing and coping with pests, diseases, parasites and bacteria - Water chemistry and how to achieve the correct balance for your fish. This book explores vital aspects of health care for all types of fish including freshwater and saltwater, tropical and temperate, and pond and aquarium. The clear and concise text is abundantly illustrated with underwater photography, charts, and diagrams. About the Authors Dr. Chris Andrews has a PhD in fish diseases and works at the South Carolina Aquarium. He writes books and magazine articles. Adrian Exell is a member of several specialist fishkeeping societies and is Developments Manager for a major aquarium products company. Dr. Neville Carrington specializes in fish diseases and water chemistry.

An absolute must have book for the fish keeper! This was one of the first books I bought when I started keeping fish and 12 years later it's still a wonderful book. This book takes you through how to keep your fish healthy, but more importantly it helps you through the inevitable times when you have sick fish. With a chapter on recognizing your sick fish, to a chapter on the most common diseases and parasites this book will help you figure out what's wrong with your fish. Finally there is a chapter on how to treat each type of illness so you don't have to guess on what to do. This is definitely a book that every fish keeper should have.

MUST have for any budding or old hat Aquarist -- This book is amazing! I absolutly recomend it to everyone I've talked to. Not only does it use casual scientific terms but it does also explain them for anyone that doesn't have a BSc. Great information not only on fish disease, but on maintaining a properly balanced aquarium & preventing diseases from occuring in the first place. Personally I think it should be a manditory buy with ever first-fish purchase. For those who keep fish as pets -- The fish hobby is made up of two different types of people. Some hobbyists do not really bother to understand their fish, they simply buy replacements when the current ones die. The second type of fish-keeper wants to know as much information as he or she can on the types of fishes they keep. This book would be of most value to the second type. Sometimes, we mistakenly assume that fish are fragile and that there is simply no way to maintain them at optimum health. But that is not the case. Most fish are quite hardy. They can easily be maintained in the home aquarium if attention is given to their particular needs. Even so, from time to time, our fishes do get sick despite of our care. This book will help you diagnose some of the more common diseases that afflict fishes, as well as some possible remedies. Some of the procedures in the textbook are simply not feasible for the average aquarists. Most of us do not have access to a laboratory. However, there is enough solutions in the book that are easy enough to follow. I highly recommend this book.

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All aspects of health care for all types of fishes -- Dr. Chris Andrews, et.al.'s Manual Of Fish Health is a basic guide to providing a healthy aquarium environment and should be a part of any fish owner's home collection. It covers all aspects of health care for all types of fishes, both freshwater and marine, and cover pond as well as aquarium environments. Add plenty of charts and color photos and you have a truly comprehensive reference. A must-have for all fish keepers -- I have dozens of books on fish and this is one I can't live without. It's an encyclopedia of fish illnesses and treatments that includes wonderful illustrations and photos. It's simple to understand and yet useful for us advanced aquarists. I answer hundreds of e-mails from my web site every year about fish illness and often refer people to this book. It's interesting enough that sometimes I look it over again! Excellent diagnosis -- One of my gouramis fell ill and a day later pop-eye set in. After trying to diagnose the illness(es) through various fish-related web sites- with no luck- I dosed with both gram-negative and gram-positive antibiotics. Two days later the gourami died, and the other was getting worse. Then, I got this book. In less than a minute I was able to diagnose the remaining sick gourami. In fact, page 162 has a picture of him! Very cool. Now I know what to do to save him (and protect the other fish, too). This book has excellent discussions on all the important things: water pH, hardness, temperature, the biological filtration cycle, and more. Plus, the photos are real-life, not stupid inaccurate line drawings. I just wish I had bought it two years ago when I started the hobby. It would've saved me a lot of money, both in fish and equipment! The book at first seems pricey, but considering the amount of money you'll save with the information in it, it's cheap! I suggest getting it- and reading it- before buying any fish. But if you already have fish, it's a god-send.

Don't get caught out - get this book -- This small book is full of useful information on preventing illness in fish in ponds or aquaria and on recognising and treating symptoms should they occur. It starts out by raising the important issues of prevention, water environment and stress and follows on with a really simple flow-chart system of identification, diagnosis and treatment. I found it very readable, useful and easy to follow. If you have an aquarium - you MUST HAVE this book!!, -- Simply put - this is the most benificial book you can get on tropical fishkeeping, both freshwater and marine. Just over 200 pages of full color photos and diagrams, it takes you from the understanding of your pet fish and it's enviroment at a basic level straight to a guide to treating most any pest and disease that can plague your pet. This book will serve you as an excellent reference for your home aquarium. Step by step it will help you to identify those calamadies that can wipe out an entire fish community BEFORE it becomes a problem. The section on water chemistry is invaluable in helping your understanding of your fishes enviroment... I can go on for a long time about this book... but suffice it to say that I have found it invaluable as a reference and I have absolutly no hesitation in not only recommending it - but go so far as in saying that it should be a required book for the aquarist, from beginner to avid veteran alike!! I have been keeping fish now for over 10 years - I still go back to the "manual of fish health" by Dr. Chris Andrews more than any other book in my collection! Bravo on a job well done