Massive in it's 1312 pages and immensely colorful with it's inclusion of more than 1000 full-color photos of tropical fishes, "The Encyclopedia of freshwater Tropical Fishes, Expanded Edition is unquestionably the aquarium hobby's greatest combined source of practical, truly useful and interesting information and photos that serve as perfect identification guides while showing tropical fishes at their true-to-life best. Three separate sections covering aquarium management (128 pages), aquarium plants (128 pages), and raising tropical fishes commercially (32 pages) are crowned with the book's enormous descriptive catalog of exotic freshwater aquarium fishes -960 color-laden pages of usable, easy-to-read information on a species-by-species basis covering just about every fish in the hobby.