- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S. (1 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0764123971
- ISBN-13: 978-0764123979
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 16.7 x 0.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 926,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gives advice to hobbyists as it describes the several varieties of bottom dwelling fish that are native to many tropical and subtropical rivers. This book presents reliable and useful information for pet owners. The books in this series are written by breeders, trainers, vets and other pet care specialists.
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Format:Paperback
Pet Manual: Catfish (A Complete Pet Owner's Manual)is an old book from 2003 on breeding catfish.
Some off the fishes have changed family and changed name since the publication off the book.
A good beginners book for people starting with a wide range off catfish.
Some off the fishes have changed family and changed name since the publication off the book.
A good beginners book for people starting with a wide range off catfish.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A book that a mother would love.
4 Aug 2007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A mother of one of the authors, I mean. Everyone else will be annoyed at this book.
The biggest gripe I have with this book is that it makes a big deal about how you should always refer to catfish by their Latin names. It explains in a hoity-toity way that it's really not being hoity-toity to do this, because it's just being pragmatic. It says that it's unreasonable to refer to catfish by their common names, because often a Latin name for a catfish can have two or three common names.
However, after all of that, the rest of the book mostly uses the common names for the catfish, using only the Latin names in the section headings. Except for the "L" catfish, which don't yet have Latin names. Sound boring? It is.
The book is poorly laid out, too. It would have been cool if the catfish pictures corresponded with the catfish that the page talked about. They didn't though.
And, this book talks a lot about the basics of aquarium setup. Like, it dedicates a few pages to choosing the correct filter for your aquarium.
This book looks like it's just a stock book about aquariums that got recycled for catfish. I kept trying to figure out if the writers actually knew anything about catfish, or if they just found a bunch of information from the internet and compiled it in this book. By about ten pages from the end, they finally said something in the book that convinced me that they knew a little, personally about catfish.
Overall, my advice is to choose any other book on catfish rather than this book. If you don't know anything about catfish, the Latin will be too inaccessible. If you know a lot about catfish, the basics of aquariums will be too simplistic.
The biggest gripe I have with this book is that it makes a big deal about how you should always refer to catfish by their Latin names. It explains in a hoity-toity way that it's really not being hoity-toity to do this, because it's just being pragmatic. It says that it's unreasonable to refer to catfish by their common names, because often a Latin name for a catfish can have two or three common names.
However, after all of that, the rest of the book mostly uses the common names for the catfish, using only the Latin names in the section headings. Except for the "L" catfish, which don't yet have Latin names. Sound boring? It is.
The book is poorly laid out, too. It would have been cool if the catfish pictures corresponded with the catfish that the page talked about. They didn't though.
And, this book talks a lot about the basics of aquarium setup. Like, it dedicates a few pages to choosing the correct filter for your aquarium.
This book looks like it's just a stock book about aquariums that got recycled for catfish. I kept trying to figure out if the writers actually knew anything about catfish, or if they just found a bunch of information from the internet and compiled it in this book. By about ten pages from the end, they finally said something in the book that convinced me that they knew a little, personally about catfish.
Overall, my advice is to choose any other book on catfish rather than this book. If you don't know anything about catfish, the Latin will be too inaccessible. If you know a lot about catfish, the basics of aquariums will be too simplistic.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A very basic beginners book.
14 Sep 2008
Format:Paperback
Catfish (Complete Pet Owner's Manual) is the bare essentials to keeping a few of the myriad catfish species. It is an O.K. book but not very extensive in information on catfish. There are other, better, books on catfish that give one of the largest groups of fish the attention they deserve.
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