Written by tropical fish experts with over 30 years experience, The Discus includes all the information a new fish keeper needs to begin this exciting hobby: how to select a tank; proper water conditions; nutrition; and breeding your own beautiful fish. Like all the titles in the Owner's Guide series, The Discus is filled with info-packed sidebars and striking color photos. This book helps make keeping Discus a fun and rewarding experience for the hobbyist.

Written by tropical fish experts with over 30 years experience, The Discus includes all the information a new fish keeper needs to begin this exciting hobby: how to select a tank; proper water conditions; nutrition; and breeding your own beautiful fish. Like all the titles in the Owner's Guide series, The Discus is filled with info-packed sidebars and striking color photos. This book helps make keeping Discus a fun and rewarding experience for the hobbyist.

The lizard craze is undeniable, and the small, friendly gecko is a big hit among pet owners. If you are interested in, or have a gecko, this book will give you all the information you need to keep this fascinating reptile in captivity. From light and heat requirements to nutrition and health care, this book covers everything your gecko will need.

At last, a book to kick-off your hobby as a Koi-keeper. From how to build a Koi pond to choosing breeding stock, ""Koi: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish,"" provides the answers. You'll learn how to choose from the many pond materials on the market, how big your pond needs to be and where to place it in your yard. You'll also learn where to buy your fish, how to select healthy specimens and how to feed them to keep them in top form.

""Koi: An Owner's Guide To A Happy Healthy Fish"" gets you started in identifying the many different types of Koi and acquaints you with the many Japanese terms you will need to understand when purchasing fish. Sidebars filled with interesting facts and exceptional color photos make this book easy to read and a visual delight.

This is our seventh set of Happy, Healthy Pet titles. These latest books will bring our series up to fifty-five titles and, like the others, they are books pet owners can turn to for the essential information they need to raise a healthy, happy pet. All books contain information on: c feeding c grooming c housing c health care c what to expect from the pet c basic training As our series expands and focuses on different kinds of pets, the emphasis remains on making the pet a companion. Owners of more unusual pets will particularly appreciate the expert advice in these books because professional care for exotic animals can be hard to come by. As always, the instruction on the books is from experts people who know their pets intimately but always remember what it was like to have one the first time. Happy, Healthy Pet guides are rich with professional quality color photos and are designed to be enjoyable and easy to learn from. Expert herper and author Steve Grenard details care information for a variety of lizards commonly kept as pets, including geckos, anoles, monitors and more.

At last, a book about this special lizard that emphasizes total care and companionship You'll not only learn about specific traits of your iguana, like its needs for light and heat, you'll learn what the world's like from your pet's perspective. Best of all, the book is filled with color photos, info-packed sidebars and fun facts to make caring for your pet easy and enjoyable.

RSPB Spotlight: Snakes is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist. Snakes are superbly secretive reptiles, celebrated by many for their highly tuned senses and their complex and mysterious seasonal behaviours. Though some people may be fearful of them, these important reptiles play a crucial role in many habitats. And an encounter with any one of our native snake species is an experience worth cherishing. In Spotlight Snakes, Jules Howard takes readers on a journey through the ecology and lifestyle of Britain's three native snake species: the Barred Grass Snake, the Smooth Snake and our only venomous snake species, the Adder. As well as uncovering their unique hunting styles and courtship rituals, he delves into the myths and legends at the heart of humankind's widespread and sometimes troublesome fascination with these animals. He also charts the conservation challenges our native snakes face in the modern age and explores the solutions conservationists are employing to help these extraordinary predators remain a vital part of British ecosystems for generations to come. The Spotlight series introduces readers to the lives and behaviour of our favourite animals with eye-catching colour photographs and informative expert text.

The literature on snakes is voluminous but overwhelmingly centered in the natural sciences, with little published about them in the fields of popular culture or the history of medicine. Focusing primarily on American culture and history from the 1800s, this study draws on a wide range of sources--including newspaper archives, medical journals, and archives from the Smithsonian Institute--to examine the complex relationship between snakes and humans.

Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Reptile and Amphibian bietet einen umfassenden UEberblick uber die Behandlung der haufigsten Krankheiten und Beschwerden bei Reptilien und Amphibien. Das Buch ist auf den schnellen und einfachen Zugang zu Informationen ausgelegt und ist ein unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk fur Tierarzte, die sich mit der Versorgung von Schildkroeten, Eidechsen, Schlangen, Krokodilen und Amphibien befassen. Dieses Werk enthalt Empfehlungen von fuhrenden internationalen Persoenlichkeiten auf dem Gebiet der Reptilien- und Amphibienpflege, verpackt in einem perfekten klinischen Handbuch. Die Angaben zu Diagnose und Behandlung sind logisch und schrittweise aufgebaut. Ausserdem steht den Lesern eine begleitende Website zur Verfugung, auf der sie Anamnese- und Untersuchungsformulare zum Ausdrucken finden, Bilder, auf denen Techniken fur die Venenpunktionen und intravenoese Katheterisierung bei verschiedenen Amphibien- und Reptiliengruppen dargestellt sind, sowie Bilder mit Methoden fur die Geschlechtsbestimmung bei Reptilien. Das ideale Praxishandbuch fur Tierarzte und Studierende der Tiermedizin, die verstandliche und zuverlassige Informationen uber Reptilien und Amphibien suchen, insbesondere mit den folgenden Themen: * Behandlung von haufigen Krankheiten und Beschwerden bei Schildkroeten, insbesondere Erkrankungen der oberen Atemwege, Kloakenvorfall, Ohrenabszessen und Panzerfaule * Behandlung von haufigen Krankheiten bei Eidechsen, insbesondere Hypovitaminose A, ernahrungsbedingtem sekundarem Hyperparathyreoidismus, Kryptosporidiose, Abszessen und Pilzinfektionen * Behandlung von Krankheiten bei Schlangen, insbesondere Dysecdysis, Erkrankungen der unteren Atemwege, Einschlusskoerperkrankheit, Stomatitis und Paramyxovirus * Umfassende Betrachtung der Behandlung von Krankheiten bei Krokodilen, insbesondere West-Nil-Virus, Chlamydiose, Trauma, Abszessen und Gicht Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Reptile and Amphibian ist ein unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk fur Tierarzte, Studierende der Tiermedizin, Assistenzarzte und Praktikanten, die ein groesseres Verstandnis von Schildkroeten, Eidechsen, Schlangen, Krokodilen und Amphibien entwickeln und die Versorgung verbessern moechten.

Everything you need to know about Skinks and Blue Tongued Skinks as pets and more. This book is a must have guide for anybody passionate about Blue Tongued Skinks. Skinks facts and information. Habitat, diet, health, care, common myths, diseases, illnesses, parasites and where to buy all included. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. In a straight forward, no nonsense fashion, Elliott Lang covers all aspects of keeping skinks as Pets. The book is full of sound advice and answers to your questions.

Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse in Sydney - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. By the time John retired in 2010, he'd survived five venomous snake bites. Many of those familiar with John and his shows wouldn't know that he was also an Olympic athlete, a top state rugby league player who played alongside some of the legends of the game, a state champion boxer, an adventurer and a world authority on turtles. The Last Snake Man chronicles John's extraordinary life and times. From wrangling snakes to chasing turtles, from remote country towns to the impenetrable jungles of New Guinea, this is the story of an amazing Australian and his never-ending search for fascinating animals and adventure.