Practical and entertaining, this is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to setting up and maintaining an aquarium full of healthy, thriving freshwater fish. Presented in the lively, highly readable style of The Complete Idiot's Guide series, it reveals the mysteries of buying aquarium equipment, setting up the tank, choosing the fish, ongoing care, nutrition, sickness and health, breeding and even fish behavior. All the fun fact boxes and cartoons that readers have come to love in The Complete Idiot's Guides will be here. And as a special bonus, the Reference Card will be a four-color fish identification chart. As are all the books in this wildly popular series, this will be the only guide a reader needs.