Detail:  Written by Germany's leading aquarist/scientist, the man who has popularised the use of aquariums in schools because of their great educational value, this remarkably thorough book discusses every aspect of setting up and maintaining a freshwater aquarium. It covers equipment selection, plansy and planting, feeding, breeding and raising fishes, fish diseases and much more, accompainied by useful and fascinating accounts of hundreds of individual fish species.

The illustrations enliven and expand the text, and the book takes a different approach to aquarium keeping and imparts the secrets of European techniques.