Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110716 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780793805846
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Nice compact volume, lots of good info, needs common name index
Good reference book on looking up cichlids. Even my teen-agers who are getting into our new tank are spending some time reading through this book.

It has useful information on most species such as maximum size, water conditions, food needs, temperament & compatibility. With some species with color variations or closely related species, it uses common descriptions applicable to all of them, and shows photos of the variations.

But it is missing a common-name index which it sorely needs. Hence, only 4 stars.

Good book, but no common names.
I bought this book to help me in setting up a cichlid tank (primarily to select the fish). The book has lots of good information, however the single major drawback is it has almost no common names. The common names that it does have are not indexed and indeed the book is not setup to use common names to locate an article. If you are a taxonomist or scientist no common names are fine, but the average, casual fish keeper could really benefit from the common names being included.In my years of keeping tropical freshwater fish (20), I have encountered fish keepers who pride themselves on being able to rattle off the scientific names of their fish, thats great and all, but I don't find the names as pleasant nor as useful in everyday conversation.

i am a novive at cichlids I found this book very informative
This is a great book for people who are starting out and also for those of you that already know about these amazing fish. I learned so much that I decided to buy 6 fish--so far all is great.

I would say this book is very useful!