The Complete Guppy Fish Room        

    by Philip Shaddock.                  

" Development, Health & Disease
" Breeders Resource Book
" Breeding Strategies
" Color Series
" The Complete Guppy Fish Room

Synopsis:
The Guppy Designer series of books have been distributed to over 30 countries in the world, from Thailand, to Russia, from Mexico to Denmark. The advanced care and breeding information covers the latest theories in animal husbandry and genetics. This is the reason why the books have been purchased by the world's leading guppy breeders as well as the breeders of pigeons, dogs, bettas, reptiles and other animal species. It is simply the best and most up to date information source for the hobbyist and professional.

Review:
The fact that the series have the feel of being home produced with their spiral bindings is more than made up for by the content and has the added advantage that the author can update each time a new copy is produced. Since the series is available in single volumes or a complete set, I will review each volume in turn.

The Complete Guppy Fish Room: Deals with the setting up of a fish room and general fish care in a very full and in depth way. Perhaps of most use for someone coming to fish keeping for the first time, but even experts will find "nuggets" of useful information.

Guppy Development, Health & Disease: This volume surprised me, as well as disease details, something I find boring and am afraid only study as and when I have a problem, it has many interesting chapters on guppy development, nutrition, growth and fertility.

Breeding Strategies: Offers chapters on record keeping, judging, inbreeding etc.

Breeders Resource Book: If I were only going to buy one book in the series this would be it, without doubt the best book I have ever read on guppy genetics. After giving up on other books on genetics, I found this book to explain a complex subject in a very clear and informed way and even better for being guppy specific. In addition, the many up to date photographs of current strains and explanation of their genetics is a bonus

Please Note: Since writing this review we have received the following information from PhilipShaddock:
"Regarding the books you review. I do not sell the Breeders Resource anymore since it contains the old version of the Strains Library. I extracted, revised and expanded the genetics part of the Breeders Resource into a new book called, “Advanced Genetics for the Guppy Breeder.” I don’t sell Breeding Strategies. It will probably be revised and incorporated into the “Breeding Advice” series on my website. The other two books “Complete Fishroom” and “Health and Disease” I sell as downloadable PDFs only, no longer a print version."