Suggest Book Please!

[Alind]

Please suggest me some books on fish care and breeding them.
may containing livebearers and other tropical fishes.

i would be glad if that would be an e-book, and more if that come for free!!

 

[waterdrop]

ahhh, the pile of used books on the bottom shelf of my little LFS recently would be lovely to hand to you but sadly that just would be too much trouble! While we wait for some true recommendations from the members, I'll mention that one approach you might consider if you're ambitious would be to just take the lists of fish in the species sections of our TFF subforums here and re-list them in a priority that you feel currently interests you. Then proceed to read all the TFF information, making notes as you go. From there jump perhaps to the wikipedia information, doing the same and taking notes. Then ultimately you might want to do some other searches and see what varying information you get from some other sites. If you don't get enough recommendations from members, you might consider whether Amazon or other booksellers on the web would have tropical fish hobby books show up in there searches and whether you could get them shipped to you.

~~waterdrop~~

 

[Bebobb]

I don't see why people post on here asking about books. You have the most powerful book at your fingertips! You probally pay anywhere from $20 to $40 a month for it. Why do you need books when you have the internet?

 

[OldMan47]

I find that much of what I know I have learned by making mistakes. A good Google search will bring up the answer to many questions but it is not like the books I enjoyed as a youngster. I focus mostly on livebearers and have found nthat the American Livebearer Association's monthly newsletter with first hand articles by other enthusiasts has been invaluable to me. People like Herbert Axelrod wrote many of the small paperback books that I read when I was younger. These days I take my general fish keeping experience and add in specialty information from various sources when I want to tackle something new. There is no magic way to suddenly get the knowledge of many years of keeping fish. We all learn best from our own mistakes.

 

[erk628]

I don't see why people post on here asking about books. You have the most powerful book at your fingertips! You probally pay anywhere from $20 to $40 a month for it. Why do you need books when you have the internet?

Books on different species that has there size diet compatibility and other requirements would be good to take with you to your LFS so that way you won't be tempted to buy something without researching it first. For me personally I could always use my phone but never get good reception in there so a book would be nice would save me another trip having to go home research then go back. The Internet has you younger people spoiled

 

[Alind]

ahhh, the pile of used books on the bottom shelf of my little LFS recently would be lovely to hand to you but sadly that just would be too much trouble! While we wait for some true recommendations from the members, I'll mention that one approach you might consider if you're ambitious would be to just take the lists of fish in the species sections of our TFF subforums here and re-list them in a priority that you feel currently interests you. Then proceed to read all the TFF information, making notes as you go. From there jump perhaps to the wikipedia information, doing the same and taking notes. Then ultimately you might want to do some other searches and see what varying information you get from some other sites. If you don't get enough recommendations from members, you might consider whether Amazon or other booksellers on the web would have tropical fish hobby books show up in there searches and whether you could get them shipped to you.

~~waterdrop~~

very right sir,
that would be a nice way to start!!
Thankyou!!

I don't see why people post on here asking about books. You have the most powerful book at your fingertips! You probally pay anywhere from $20 to $40 a month for it. Why do you need books when you have the internet?

Yes sir you are right,
we have the most powerfull reference at our fingure tip, The WEB.
that's why i am asking you to guide me where or which part should i go first as a beginer!

 

[Alind]

I find that much of what I know I have learned by making mistakes. A good Google search will bring up the answer to many questions but it is not like the books I enjoyed as a youngster. I focus mostly on livebearers and have found nthat the American Livebearer Association's monthly newsletter with first hand articles by other enthusiasts has been invaluable to me. People like Herbert Axelrod wrote many of the small paperback books that I read when I was younger. These days I take my general fish keeping experience and add in specialty information from various sources when I want to tackle something new. There is no magic way to suddenly get the knowledge of many years of keeping fish. We all learn best from our own mistakes.

Definetly sir,
Best knowledge come from experiance,and i'll search for the American livebearer associasions newsletter,if i can get it by mail!
and will google Mr.Herbert Axelrod for his articles.
actually i am the cause for 4 fishes death,
so don't wanna make stupid mistakes that i had made like giving them a temperature shock while water changing etc.


That's what i was asking for,you seniours give a
starting point(one end of thread),
and then i'll see you people at the other end of the thread!

Thankyou sir.

 

[mmanist]

Thing is the internet cant go with you every where... Unless you have one of them spiffy phones that does it all. LOL Books are nice to take with you to them long doc appointments, or for instance, I work at an aftermarket car accesories shop and some of our customers will sit and wait ont there cars, and they may be sitting for 1-6 hours depending on what we are doing. So its nice to have books to take with you. But other members are right the web is the biggest book you can find. This site alone it packed full of info, and if you still have questions, get on here and ask. People on here are more than welcome to give you all the info you are looking for!!! It very straight forward and everyone seems very nice. Good luck on your find, and happy fish keeping!!!!

Megan

 

[Bebobb]

Oh. I see why you would need a book now. But I have internet on my phone, so if there is ever anything that I need to look up quickly, I would just pop out my phone.

 

[kelly528]

I don't know if he has any livebearer, but I have also found the writings of David E. Boruchowitz to be legit, as have others.

I like the internet for a quick reference but books still have their value to me as I can take them on the train or kick back on the bed and read them... I spent enough of my day staring at a computer screen!

Also because they have actually been approved by a publisher I find books a better source of cincise, correct and well-presented information. With cool pictures

 

[NinjaSmurf]

You're lucky kelly, I've had the opposite problem, books that state just the facts (and not all of these were right) and no real idea of the fish itself in an actual tank setup.

Not to mention a sometimes very limited selection of fish if you don't just want the regular community type. Plus, books can become very quickly outdated.

And trust me, I'm a total bibliophile, but so far it hasn't seemed to mix well with this particular hobby of mine.

 

[kelly528]

You're lucky kelly, I've had the opposite problem, books that state just the facts (and not all of these were right) and no real idea of the fish itself in an actual tank setup.

Not to mention a sometimes very limited selection of fish if you don't just want the regular community type. Plus, books can become very quickly outdated.

And trust me, I'm a total bibliophile, but so far it hasn't seemed to mix well with this particular hobby of mine.

Depends on when/where they were published. Some technology (pythons lol) catches faster in North America than in Britain, and vice versa.

Espescially if you are browsing a book to find species to put in a tank I find them very useful. I mean on the internet if you are looking, for, say a cool tetra to put in your community you pretty much have to know the name of what you are thinking of, then search it. In a book, just flip to the characins section and you get pictures of every tetra and some basic information.

 

[OldMan47]

I am afraid you will have trouble contacting Axelrod. When I was reading his fish books as a very young person, he was a mature adult. I do not know if he is still around but many of his paperback books can still be found on places like e-bay.