Saltwater Aquarium: Your Happy Healthy PetTM - Hardcover

Skomal PhD, Gregory

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9780470037959: Saltwater Aquarium: Your Happy Healthy PetTM

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470037954 ISBN 13: 9780470037959

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2006

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The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full–color photographs––now revised and redesigned to be even more reader–friendly!

A saltwater aquarium provides a soothing, ever–changing mini seascape of color and motion. But saltwater fish require a constant, controlled environment. How do you set up and maintain a tank and select the right fish from more than 12,000 varieties? How do you care for marine fish? This updated guide provides the facts and advice you need and includes:
∗ Info on choosing, equipping, and setting up your aquarium
∗ Pointers on choosing compatible fish for a community tank
∗ The scoop on the best (and worst) fish for beginners
∗ Guidance on maintaining your aquarium and keeping your fish healthy

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Synopsis:

This work presents a refreshing, non-technical approach to a popular, complex hobby. Appreciated for their beauty and relaxing, mesmerizing effect, saltwater aquariums are popular in homes, medical facilities, nursing homes, restaurants, and offices. With information for beginners as well as experienced owners, this covers the essential equipment, setting up the tank, choosing and acclimating fish, feeding fish and invertebrates, adding plant life, monitoring, cleaning and maintaining the aquarium, and other vital information. In the fun, practical "Happy Healthy Pet" style, it includes great photos, checklists, charts, and more. Gregory Skomal (Martha's Vineyard, MA) is an experienced aquarist and Marine Fisheries Biologist at Martha's Vineyard Fisheries. He is also the author of "Freshwater Aquarium: Your Happy Healthy Pet, Second Edition" (0-7645-8377-8) and "Saltwater Aquariums For Dummies" (0-7645-5340-2).

About the Author:

Gregory Skomal is an accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, aquarist, and author. He has been a fisheries biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries since 1987 and currently heads up the Massachusetts Shark Research Program. He has written numerous scientific research papers and has appeared in a number of film and television shark documentaries, including programs for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and ESPN.
Although his research passion for the last twenty years has been sharks, he is also an avid aquarist and has written eight books on aquarium keeping. His home and laboratory are on the island of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts.

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