Known throughout the world for its beauty and personality, koi is one of the most carefully bred fish species around. Raising koi is especially time-consuming and requires more than just sprinkling little flakes in the fish bowl. But thankfully, you don’t have to be an expert to maintain your own koi pond. 
Koi For Dummies shows you how easy and fun it can be to own and care for these delicate fish. Whether building a pond or aquarium for the indoors or outdoors, this easy-to-understand guide explores all of your options. Clear, concise advice helps you: <ul>
<li>Appreciate your koi’s beauty</li> <li>Build, design, and maintain your koi pond or aquarium</li> <li>Find and select koi and the proper supplies</li> <li>Keep your koi happy and healthy</li> <li>Treat your koi for parasites, bacterial infections, and viruses</li> <li>Breed and care for baby koi</li> <li>Show off your koi to other koi enthusiasts</li> </ul>

Koi For Dummies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bartlett, R.D.

Bartlett, Patricia

Pets & Animal Care

For Dummies

If you want to add a new dimension to owning a reptile or amphibian, you may want to try to design and build your own terrarium. With more than 100 full-color photos, this book provides basic carpentry instructions, along with advice on using screen material, glass panels, rocks, logs and plants. Whether you want to simulate a scaled down replica of a desert, rain forest, semiaquatic or woodland enviroment, you will find great ideas in these pages.

Terrarium and Cage Construction and Care

Bartlett, Richard D.

B E S Pub Co

Reptiles are among the more exotic pets - and owning them can be a very fascinating and rewarding experience. Each book in the Reptile and Amphibian Keeper's Guides provides basic information on reptiles and specific instructions on care. Each book begins with a description of the subject animal's natural history, distribution, life expectancy, and notable characterieistics. The information that follows focuses on selecting a good specimen, determining the sex, providing proper caging, nutritious feeding, health care, and steps owners need to take if they plan to breed.

Leopard and Fat-Tailed Geckos: Reptile Keeper's Guide (Reptile Guidebook Series)

As part of the larger Series, Corn Snakes describes how these brilliantly colored harmless snakes do well in captivity - if their owners know the fundamentals of housing, feeding, and general care. The book also describes the many subspecies native to both North America and Europe. There are approximately 50-75 full-color photos throughout.

Corn Snakes: Reptile Keeper's Guide (Reptile Basics)

This large nonvenomous snake is native to equatorial western Africa. Like all tropical reptiles in captivity, it requires special care and housing�facts that are detailed in this guide. Volumes in the Reptile and Amphibian Keeper's Guide series present basic information on reptiles and clear instructions on reptile care. Each book includes general information on the subject animal's natural history, distribution in the wild, life expectancy, and physical characteristics. Practical information includes purchasing a good specimen, determining sex, providing correct caging and feeding, health care, and advice for those who want to try breeding. Despite their compact size, books in this series are packed with valuable information for hobbyists and are filled with illustrations of high quality. Each book has 50-to-75 full-color photos, line art, bibliography, and an index.

Ball Python: Facts & Advice on Care and Breeding (Reptile Keepers Guide)

As part of the larger Series, Bearded Dragons describes several housing options for this exotic lizard, from a simple glass aquarium to outdoor housing in warmer climates. There are approximately 50-75 full-color photos throughout.

Bearded Dragon: Facts & Advice on Care and Breeding

These tropical frogs require special attention regarding diet and protection against parasites. All aspects of animal care and maintenance are discussed in this fact-filled volume. Books in the Reptile and Amphibian Keeper's Guide series present basic information on reptiles and clear instructions on reptile care. Each book includes general information on the subject animal's natural history, distribution in the wild, life expectancy, and physical characteristics. Practical information includes purchasing a good specimen, determining sex, providing correct caging and feeding, health care, and advice for those who want to try breeding. Despite their compact size, books in this series are packed with valuable information for hobbyists and are filled with illustrations of high quality. Each book has 50-to-75 full-color photos, line art, bibliography, and an index.

The Horned Frog Family and African Bullfrogs (Reptile Keepers Guide)

Titles in this popular series provide detailed instructions on health care, proper feeding and housing and other facts important to owners and their pets. All books in the series have high-quality, full-color photos and instructive line drawings.

The Iguana Handbook (Barron's Pet Handbooks)

Hobbyists will appreciate this pictorial identification guide and basic husbandry manual covering more than 250 species, subspecies, and color morphs of reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. All animals shown in this volume can be purchased at pet stores and other outlets. The authors advise on the doÂ's and donÂ'ts of purchasing, proper caging, and correct feeding. Each animal profile includes the speciesÂ' place of origin, its size from hatchling to adult, lifespan, and general behavior traits. A wide array of animals are coveredÂ--snakes, lizards, skinks, geckos, turtles and tortoises, frogs, toads, salamanders, tarantulas, scorpions, mantids, crabsÂ--and even cockroaches. 269 color illustrations.

Reptiles, Amphibians and Invertebrates: An Identification and Care Guide

Griswold, Billy

These lizards range in size from the three-inch neon day gecko to the twelve-inch Standings's variety. All are described in this book. Books in this series give hobbyists basic information on reptiles' anatomy, life cycles, and traits, as well as specific instructions on care and breeding. There is expert information on selecting good specimens, determining sex, providing proper caging, nutritious feeding, and health care. All books are heavily illustrated with full-color photos.

Day Geckos (Reptile Keeper's Guide)

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