William T. Innes (1874–1969)

This decades-old book was considered something of an authoritative text in its time. I found it interesting, informative and quaint altogether. It is an encyclopedia of fishes, the first eighty pages being a general introduction to fish biology plus instructions on their care, feeding and management like usual. A lot of the basics are still the same, but some of the info is astonishingly outdated. You can bet that most of the species in the book were quite hardy to withstand the relatively primitive care they received back then.

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