Full Description
This book forms a complete resource covering ornamental fish health and welfare from a recognized expert on the topic. Beginning with an overview of the tropical fish industry and aquarium keeping, it covers all the key elements of care, including water-quality testing and maintenance, filtration systems, nutrition, husbandry, handling and transportation of fish, disease diagnosis, treatments and medications, and disease prevention. It also reviews areas of wider interest, such as biosecurity and zoonoses. The book can be read through to gain a complete overview of the care and welfare of ornamental aquarium and pond fish, or it can be used to easily look up specific information about a topic of interest. With numerous illustrations and photographs, plus references allowing readers to study areas of interest in more detail, this book makes an invaluable teaching and reference handbook. It is a vital source of information for veterinarians, scientists using fish in their labs, students, ornamental fish breeders, retail pet store workers, and aquarium keepers looking for trusted advice about how to properly care for their ornamental freshwater fish.
Contents
1: A Brief History of Keeping Fish in Aquariums 2: Overview of the Ornamental Fish Industry 3: Fish Taxonomy, Anatomy and Physiology 4: Aquarium Care 5: Water Quality 6: Filtration Systems 7: Fish Pond Care 8: Fish Nutrition 9: Equipping the Veterinary Hospital to Treat Fish Patients 10: Clinical Procedures 11: Diagnostic Tests 12: Fish Haemotology and Biochemistry 13: Transport of Samples for Laboratory Analysis 14: Advanced Diagnostic Techniques 15: Sedation, Anesthesia and Euthanasia 16: Surgery 17: Infectious Diseases 18: Protozoan Parasites 19: Metazoan Parasites 20: Zoonotic Diseases 21: Non-Infectious Diseases 22: Fish Facility Husbandry and Biosecurity 23: Administering Medications to Ornamental Fish 24: Ornamental Fish Welfare 25: Welfare in a Public Aquarium 26: Quarantine
