Freshwater Aquariums Manual: A Beginners Guide To Keeping And Feeding Freshwater Aquarium Fish

Eh so so

I did not find this book to be useful at all. I would say it was written a long time ago and has very little information about actually setting up an aquarium. Seems to think one just goes to local creeks, etc., and catches fish and other critters to put in the aquarium.

This book has a great cover, but that is where relevant content ends. Internals mix salt and fresh water photos, most of which are distorted. What "guidance" presented is both tediously dull AND irrelevant to kids, and their parents, hoping to start a young one in a wonderful hobby. My copy, bought for a 9 year old getting her first tank, ended up in my recycle bin hours after it arrived.

This book was of no value to me, it was written in a very beginning writer style. It had no practical infomation on setting up a regular aquarium, or cleaning and maintaining one. No helpful pictures and the ones in the book felt like filler. I did not realize it was self published.

No helpful information, it’s suppose to be about freshwater shows lots of pictures of salt water creatures, Lots of wrong information in the book

This is a poorly printed, haphazard leaflet with barely any readable info, several typos and basic Wikipedia information. Do not recommend.

Very poor.

This book was essentially useless to me. This book may be helpful someone who wants to engage in the nature experiment of collecting cold-water pond fish and small aquatic animals from the wild. Neither the title nor the book description give any indication of that focus. I did not want a nature experiment. I wanted to set up a little decorative warm-water, tropical-fish aquarium that I could buy from Pet Smart. This book contains absolutely no mention of the heaters, filters, aeration equipment or water treatment I needed. It recommends running tap water directly into the aquarium, a move almost guaranteed to leave a lot of delicate tropicals floating belly up. Although there are many photos of fish, they are mostly of warm-water tropicals, and seem to have no connection whatever to the text. I think they’re there mostly to fill pages.

Literally no useful information whatsoever for anyone seriously wanting to set up a freshwater aquarium. Poorly written and not professional at all. However, it has a really nice cover. It is only 49 pages of large size print and full page black and white photos, many of which are marine fish and corals. Complete rip off.