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Tables of Contents for Guppies, Mollies, Platys and Other Live-Bearers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
5
6
Some Interesting Facts about Live-bearers
6
4
Introduction to a Group of Fish Families
6
1
Where Live-bearers Come From
6
1
Live-bearers in Aquariums
7
1
Are the Latin Names Important?
7
1
The Way of Life of Live-bearers
8
2
Advice for Buying
10
6
Where You Can Get Live-bearers
10
1
The Best Time for Buying
10
1
Is This Fish Healthy?
10
1
Should You Buy Single Fish, Pairs, or a Shoal?
11
1
Telling the Sex
11
1
Transporting Live-bearers
12
1
Is Quarantine Absolutely Necessary?
12
1
Introducing the Fish
13
1
Species Tank or Community Tank?
13
1
Tips on Combining Species
13
1
What Fish Are Compatible?
14
2
Maintenance and Care
16
14
Safety Precautions
16
1
The Right Aquarium
16
5
Heating
19
1
Filtration
19
1
Lighting
20
1
Bottom Material
21
1
Planting
21
1
Decorating Materials
21
1
The Ten Steps in Setting Up an Aquarium
22
1
The Right Aquarium Water
23
1
Water Hardness
23
1
pH Value
23
1
Nitrite and Nitrate
23
1
Changing the Water
24
1
Maintenance Schedule (table)
24
1
Aquarium Plants
25
4
When You Go Away...
29
1
Plant Care
29
1
The Proper Diet
30
7
Dry Food
30
1
Live Food
31
1
Fresh Live Food
31
3
Some Food Animals You Can Raise
34
1
Frozen Live Food
34
1
Dried Live Food
35
1
Freeze-dried Live Food
35
1
Vegetable Foods
35
1
Feeding Fry
35
1
Feeding Fish You Want to Breed
35
1
Eight Feeding Rules
36
1
Diseases of Live-bearers
37
4
Avoiding Disease
37
1
Diseases That Are Fairly Common
37
2
White Spot Disease or ``Ich''
Cotton-wool Disease or Mouth Fungus
Bacterial Fin Rot
Fish Tuberculosis
Gill Flukes
Intestinal Worms
Cloudy Skin
Poisoning
What Is Wrong with These Live-bearers? (table)
39
1
Some Important Points about Treating Diseases
40
1
Killing a Fish
40
1
Breeding Live-bearers
41
6
Breeding to Multiply Fish or Selective Breeding?
41
1
Selecting the Breeding Stock
41
1
Breeding in a Community or a Species Tank
41
1
Spawning Boxes
42
1
A Breeding Tank
42
1
An Efficient Breeding Method
43
1
The Right Time to Isolate the Females
43
1
Rules to Prevent Unwanted Crossings
43
1
Inbreeding
44
1
Raising the Fry
44
3
Well-known Ornamental Varieties
47
9
What Is Selective Breeding?
47
1
Which Live-bearers Are Suitable for Selective Breeding?
47
1
The Basics of Genetics
47
1
Choosing Fish for Selective Breeding
48
1
Special Aspects of Selective Breeding
48
1
The Most Popular Ornamental Varieties
48
1
The Guppy
49
1
The Swordtail
50
3
The Platy
53
1
The Molly
54
2
Popular Live-bearers and Their Care
56
14
Notes on the Instructions for Care
56
1
Live-bearing Toothed Carps
56
10
Mexican Topminnows
66
1
Live-bearing Halfbeaks
67
2
Four-eyed Fish
69
1
Useful Literature and Addresses
70
1
Index
71