📚 Aquariums

Water in glass: setup and stocking, and the husbandry of a display that must not crash.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject aquariums in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Encyclopedia of tropical fishes	Herbert R. Axelrod	1958	14
	Goldfish varieties and tropical aquarium fishes	William T. Innes	1917	13
	Exotic aquarium fishes	William T. Innes	1935	12
	Handbook of tropical aquarium fishes	Herbert R. Axelrod	1955	12
	All about tropical fish	Derek McInerny	1958	10
	Zoo and Aquarium History	Vernon N. Kisling	2000	10
	A handbook to the marine aquarium	Philip Henry Gosse	1855	8
	Reginald Dutta's the right way to keep pet fish	Reginald Dutta	1951	8
	You and Your Aquarium (You & Your)	Dick Mills	1986	8
	Water gardening	Philip Swindells	1975	7
	Dynamic aquaria	Walter H. Adey	1991	7
	Wasserwelt Aquarium	Ulrich Schliewen	1992	7
	Freshwater aquariums for dummies	Maddy Hargrove	2006	7
	The aquarium book	E. G. Boulenger	1925	6
	The living aquarium	Peter Hunnam	1981	6
	Fresh-water aquaria	Gregory Climenson Bateman	1890	5
	Tropical Fish Golden Guide (A Golden guide)	Bruce W. Halstead	1975	5
	The manual of fish health	Chris Andrews	1988	5
	Eyewitness Handbook - Aquarium Fish	Dick Mills	1993	5
	Aquarium Life	Vanna Dal Vesco	1975	4
	A fishkeeper's guide to fish breeding	Chris Andrews	1986	4
	The complete aquarium	Peter W. Scott	1991	4
	Complete Book of the Marine Aquarium	Vincent B. Hargreaves	2001	4
	The public aquarium	Charles Haskins Townsend	1928	3
	Underwater zoos	Millicent E. Selsam	1961	3
	Aquarium hygiene	Hellmuth Wachtel	1966	3
	Aquariums	Anthony Evans	1972	3
	Tropical fish	Reginald Dutta	1972	3
	The Dell encyclopedia of tropical fish	T. W. Julian	1974	3
	The complete fishkeeper	Joseph S. Levine	1991	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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