Fish and Invertebrate Culture: Water Management in Closed Systems

A completely rewritten edition of this simple, concise handbook on water quality control in closed-system environments, focusing on aquariums. Shows how to culture fishes and invertebrates in closed systems by controlling the chemical factors in the environment that bring about changes in normal physiology. Demonstrates that accumulating toxic metabolites are the primary limiting factors in aquatic animal culture and that removing them on a continuous basis should be the foremost objective in routine water management. Includes theoretical principles as well as practical water management techniques.

Chapter topics include: Biological and mechanical filtration processes, removal of dissolved organic carbon, methods of disinfection, gas exchange and respiration by aquatic animals, seawater, buffering toxicity and diseases prevention, and aquarium water analytical methods.  The text has been updated and rewritten, dealing with applicable theoretical and practical subjects.  A new section, "Management Practices," has been added to the end of each chapter. -- Anonymous, Marine Fisheries Review 41(10): 40, 1979

The text is apparently largely based on practice within the author's own experience and as such has an authoritative ring.. . . .The book is an excellent assist for any person concerned with the maintenance of marine animals.  It would also be useful for anyone maintaining closed freshwater systems. -- F. E. J. Fry, Limnology and Oceanography 16: 1005, 1971

The author is the director of an aquarium.  If he had restricted himself to addressing the practitioner involved in running a public aquarium display, young scientists looking for advice on how to use a closed water system, and the advanced fish hobbyist, it would have been easier for the reviewer to praise his book.  It is well written.  The chapters devoted to practical aspects contain valuable information, obviously gained through many years of successful aquarium operation. -- Otto Kinne, ICES Journal of Marine Science 35: 103, 1973