Getting started -- Water management -- Foods and feeding -- Equipment -- Decor -- the hardware -- Decor -- plants -- Setting up -- Buying and adding the fishes -- Keeping them healthy -- Breeding -- The fish groups -- Cichlids -- Catfishes -- Cypriniformes -- Cyprinodonts -- Characins -- Anabantids -- Miscellaneous freshwater fishes -- Brackish-water fishes -- Marines

Explains how to set up your aquarium, select the type of fishes you want, and maintain the appropriate tank environment. Whether you are a novice or a dedicated fishkeeper, this title discusses the merits, habitats, feeding and breeding requirements of hundreds of fishes in each of the eight major fish groups