The Discus: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Fish

This is a great book if you know next to nothing about discus. It gives you all the specs you may need to know to keep healthy beautiful discus and even the basics on breeding with some nice pictures. It also repeats alot of information for reference purposes. However, if you need a detailed discription of the care of discus you will be diapointed with this one. I recomend you purchase it with another more detailed book that may overlook the more simple aspects of discus care.

This book is another good intro guide or first book for beginners getting into Discus keeping. It outlines all the basic requirments for keeping the fish healthy. Although this book covers lots of topics, but I find some of them lack the necessary depth to be helpful to seasoned hobbyist (ie. breeding, raising the young). If your looking to buy a second Discus book, try "Degen Discus Book" by Degen. Overall 4 Stars because as a intro book it cost too much compare to others. "Discus Fish" by Thomas A. Giovanetti has the same info, if not more, and it costs much less!

This is indeed a great book for beginners covering all aspects from water conditioning to the type of plants in the aquarium that can be used for discus as well as tips on breeding and raising discus. A good book to start with and a must for every discus hobbiest !

I recently had the pleasure of purchasing, and reading, "The Discus:An owner's guide to a Happy Healthy fish." This book is a great source of information for beginning hobbysts who would like to try their hand at breeding these gorgeous fish from South America. The Authors(Mic & Maddy Hargrove and David Brown) wrote this book in an effort to show that these fish are easy to work with when you provide them the proper conditions needed for them to thrive in the home aquarium. It is very thorough, providing the reader with the origin of the Discus, how they were first brought to the U.S., the first attempts made in breeding them, the first color varieties available to hobbysts, the behavioral characteristics of Discus, etc. They go through all the steps necessary in keeping and breeding them, from suitable tankmates to tank size, to water conditions, proper diet, providing plants to help them feel secure,the type of equipment available, etc. The authors walk you through all the steps necessary to help the beginner become a capable Discus keeper and breeder. Even advance hobbysts will find this book to be a handy reference guideand make it part of their tropical fish library. If the information contained in this book alone doesn't convince you buy it, the colorful and attractive pictures of the Discus contained in it make this a 'must buy' book.