Product Description

Written by tropical fish experts with over 30 years experience, The Discus includes all the information a new fish keeper needs to begin this exciting hobby: how to select a tank; proper water conditions; nutrition; and breeding your own beautiful fish. Like all the titles in the Owner's Guide series, The Discus is filled with info-packed sidebars and striking color photos. This book helps make keeping Discus a fun and rewarding experience for the hobbyist.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231225 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 125 pages

From the Back Cover
At last, a book for the beginning Discus-keeper with everything you need to know about caring for the exotic Discus. The Discus: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish will answer all of your questions about successful Discus care—from selecting the right tank to breeding your own beautiful fish. Proper water conditions, good nutrition and how to keep your fish in the best of health are discussed in full. Written by experienced keepers of tropical fish, The Discus: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish includes insight into Discus behaviors that will make keeping Discus all the more fun, With info-packed sidebars and striking color photos, this is the Discus book that hobbyists will most enjoy.

About the Author
MIC and MADDY HARGROVE have over 30 years experience in all aspects of aquarium fish-keeping. They are the authors of The Betta: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish and contribute to many magazines about the hobby. DAVID BROWN is a longtime fish breeder and writer.

Customer Reviews

Just the basics
This is a great book if you know next to nothing about discus. It gives you all the specs you may need to know to keep healthy beautiful discus and even the basics on breeding with some nice pictures. It also repeats alot of information for reference purposes. However, if you need a detailed discription of the care of discus you will be diapointed with this one. I recomend you purchase it with another more detailed book that may overlook the more simple aspects of discus care.

Just as it Says
This book is, as it implies for the beginning discus keeper. I will go as far as to say that this book isn't only for beginning discus keepers, but for stark new aquarium keepers of any fish. There are only a few chapters that are related directly to discus fish, and of these most of the information is VERY general insomuch that it only relates to GENERAL fishkeeping. If you are NEW to the hobby I would recommend this book, but if you are experianced at all find another, more in depth study of the discus:)

A good book really for a beginner
I saw this book when i went to the internet to do research on some information about keeping discus.At that time i was planning to own one but have no experience with discus and know very little about tropical fish which i thought only need air supply to survive.Many people on the net said this book was good and is very useful when it comes to problems with the discus so i went to buy it.I learnt many new things about it like heaters,different filtrations,UV lights,tank water like pH,ammonia,hardness and nitrites and nitrates.It was really useful even in the diseases section where they tell us how to deal with sickness of the fish.But overall it was really not that good as it did not go into detail about chillers and heaters and also some websites it listed at the back of the book have already closed.
These are some bad points so i only gave 3 stars but it is really worth buying for a beginner.