Aquarium Fish Breeding

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Aquarium hobbyists who are interested in breeding fishes and invertebrates will find a bonanza of information in this profusely illustrated book. Explained here is the biology of fish breeding, with focus on taxonomy, population management, genetics, inbreeding versus selective breeding, culling, reproductive strategies, and larval and juvenile development. The author also provides extensive information on aquarium requirements, breeding triggers, and fish nutrition. Prospective fish breeders will value the author’s detailed instructions for building a fish room, with attention to its location, structure, plumbing, life support, and safety issues. He devotes individual chapters to livebearers, egg layers, cichlids, marine fish, and invertebrates. This very useful book is enhanced with more than 85 color photos plus anatomically accurate line art.

Aquarium hobbyists who plan to breed fishes and invertebrates will find a bonanza of information in this book. Author Jay Hemdal, who is Curator of Fishes and Invertebrates at the Toledo (Ohio) Zoo, explains the biology of fish breeding and provides extensive information on aquarium requirements, breeding triggers, and fish nutrition. You?ll value his detailed instructions for building a fish room, with attention to its location, structure, plumbing, life support, and safety issues.

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"I have purchased several other books on general fish breeding over the years and then a professional breeder recommended this book. Well I must say that it is the most comprehensive general book of its kind - full of delightful illustrations and lots of technical detail. The author clearly "knows his stuff" - from actual breeding, to building fishrooms to producing live foods.

"I recommend this book wholeheartedly. "
— Brian Fargher, Amazon Reviews

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