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RE: on the bookshelf..	Erik Leung
	Jan 03, 2004 10:18 PST

I'm not as into keeping bait as I used to be (whereas I used to keep many cichlids, it's now reduced to odd tetras, barbs, rasbora & the like), so from a standpoint of judging fish id books I don't have much to say. But the Axelrod I have lying around is mostly alright (late-90s edition Atlas). I like the Baensch books much more, even though I no longer own any of them. Just for kicks, two books that got me interested in keeping plants are The Natural Aquarium (Yoshino & Kobayashi - ISBN 086622629X), which I purchased at the time because two setups in the book caught my eye: the planted festivum layout which I thought was special (photo on p63, top-down view is unforgettable), and the clean, nicely terraced Tanganyikan setup on p122. Aquarium Plants Manual (Scheurmann - ISBN 0812016874) which was pretty great at the time, especially since it was so inexpensive and easy to read. Pretty sparse and no longer wholly accurate by today's standards. Erik Han-@aol.com wrote:   Cool Erik ! Also, I forgot to say that the Baensch Aquarium Atla series is super (though most already know that) especially the index which with 4,600 photographs and summary descriptions, might be the best way to go (versus buying all of the indexes) if you are on a budget. Anyone have thoughts on these vrs Axelrod's freshwater Atlas books ? Cheers All, Hans

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