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Title: Angelfish: Everything About History, Care, Nutrition, Handling, and Behavior (Complete Pet Owner's Manual) by Robert J., Phd Goldstein ISBN: 0-7641-1661-4 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A great book on keeping and breeding angelfish
Comment: As a previous reviewer noted, the editorial review is incorrect -- this is a book about freshwater angelfish, not reef-dwelling saltwater angelfish. Whoever submitted the editorial review is a doofus, but that shouldn't be held against the book or its author.

For a small, inexpensive book Angelfish: Everything About... provides a tremendous amount of information.

The sections I found most valuable were those on selecting and purchasing angelfish (appropriate size and age, how to maximize chances of a breeding pair), genetic traits of fancy angelfish (veiltail, black, black lace, marble, new gold, commercial darks and marbles, non-allelic gold, smokey, chocolate, ghost, blushing, zebra, half-black, and pearly), breeding angelfish, and raising fry.

While I'm not interested in angelfish genetics per se, the descriptions of the fancy traits are very helpful when browsing the sites of angel breeders like Angels Plus. It also explains why some fish are so much more expensive than others.

History, tank selection (for show or breeding), feeding (the section on live food is better and more comprehensive than most I've seen in general aquarium books), diseases and treatment, and water quality are all well covered. The book has an index, glossary, and dozens of color photographs.

Rating: 1
Summary: Review of the review
Comment: I have not read this book, and based on the book description I would not buy it:
"Editorial Reviews
Book Description
These tropical reef-dwellers make beautiful additions to any tank, "

The fish pictured on the cover is a freshwater angelfish, pterophyllum scalare. "Reef-dweller" refers to the marine angelfish, a completely unrelated species. Freshwater and marine aquaria are wholly different fields, and whoever wrote this blurb had clearly not even looked at the book. It doesn't bode well.

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