Books, Here is my Library

[itiwhetu]

This is my collection of books, happy to recommend any if you want me to.

 

[xxBarneyxx]

I'm fairly sure my Dad had the Breeding aquarium fishes books when I was a kid but just looked them up and they are US publications so maybe it was just something similar. A lot of books from the 70's had a very similar aesthetic. I'm fairly sure we had the living aquarium as well.

How do you feel the breeding methods in these books have held up compared to whats being done now? I suspect there are probably not too many changes for a lot of species.

 

[itiwhetu]

I'm fairly sure my Dad had the Breeding aquarium fishes books when I was a kid but just looked them up and they are US publications so maybe it was just something similar. A lot of books from the 70's had a very similar aesthetic. I'm fairly sure we had the living aquarium as well.

How do you feel the breeding methods in these books have held up compared to whats being done now? I suspect there are probably not too many changes for a lot of species.

Hardly changed. The main thing is how fry are raised. We always knew about water quality and volume ratios, it was achieving them that was the hard thing. I did raise 2000 kissing Gouramis so it wasn't that bad. But way better now.

 

[itiwhetu]

As a kid I used to go to the University Book shop and order the books I wanted. Little nerd I was, I'm sure they all thought I was mad. I spent just about as much on books as fish. This is only some of what my total collection was, over the years I leant some out and never got them back.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

Who needs books when you've got Thinternet?

I'll now go and sit on the Norty Step for an hour or three.
...Where I promise I'll read my own small, but growing, collection of fishkeeping literature.

 

[Myraan]

The smaller cheaper books you buy now are usually the 90s ones with new fonts on cover. They tell you all about how to set up undergravel filter unless you want to be posh and buy one of those new fangled powerfilters.

 

[itiwhetu]

Most of these are still available on abe books or Ebay or amazon

 

[ClownLurch]

I’ve six of em. Just got the hard back hiscock plant book after having the mini softback since getting back into this madness.
Its all a matter of looking out for them until they come down enough in price.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

I’ve six of em. Just got the hard back hiscock plant book after having the mini softback since getting back into this madness.
Its all a matter of looking out for them until they come down enough in price.

Check out eBay and Amazon for secondhand/pre-owned books, though my favourite source remains AbeBooks.

 

[Animallover😍]

Check out eBay and Amazon for secondhand/pre-owned books, though my favourite source remains AbeBooks.

I'm getting The Living Aquarium by Peter Hunnam from AbeBooks. Recommended by the OP.

 

[Deleted member 149562]

I think I will stick to my favoured bathroom reading....my dad's fault for buying me a subscription when I was a kid, still actively running all these years later (its been in print since 1966 so has followed all the changes, fads and phases that has attacked fishkeeping over the time)

Practical Fishkeeping Magazine

Britain’s best-selling fishkeeping magazine.

www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk