The Aquarium Fish Magazine
Eyal Reshef
I want ot subscribe to the Aquarium Fish Magazine.
Is it a good magazine ?
Thank you,
Eyal
Paul E. Krause
I got it for a year... it had some informative articles... lots of
ads... but I'm not renewing.
Paul
Nestor 10
> It's cheap... and you get what you pay for.
> I got it for a year... it had some informative articles...
> lots of ads... but I'm not renewing.
I'm seriously considering dumping it as well.
Can't say I'm all that impressed with the present Editor, "whoever that may
be". Ed Bauman, the founding editor, got the magazine off to a great start.
When he moved on to other projects, his replacement had tough shoes to fill,
but to me it seemed she was doing just fine.
Suddenly, a little more than a year ago, she was replaced. The new Editor
hasn't even bothered to introduce him/herself or give _any_ indication as to
the editorial stance or direction of the magazine. Even the Editorial, a
feature present from Issue One, has disappeared.
May as well be run by the investors now. The magazine's been reduced in size
from an average of 120 to 90 pages. The number of non- column main articles
has been seemingly restricted to only a maximum of 5 per issue, with 4 being
the common quantity. There also seems to be an additional requirement that
at least one, if not two, of those usual four be written by one of the
regular columnists - sort of filling two positions at once, I'd say.
Certainly saves on the payroll, but doesn't do much in the way of original
thinking.
And yes, it does seem as though ads are beginning to take up more and more
of those 90 pages.
Actually, I did let my subscription lapse - March was my last issue. But
recently, a subscription service offered it to me at $52 for three years.
That's a little under $1.50 per issue - and I'm still debating if it's worth
_that_ price (forgive me, KR)...
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Kristen
>I want ot subscribe to the Aquarium Fish Magazine.
>Is it a good magazine ?
This is my personal opinion, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I was suckered
into a year's subscription (two years ago,) and I saw many mistakes,
bad advice, boring articles, grade-school level writing abilities, and
too many ads. One thing that really showed me how little effort they
put into this mag is the fact that rarely do the pictures included in
the articles ever have anything to do with the subject of the article!
For example, they'll have an article on bio filtration, and a majority
of the pictures will be of various common species of aquarium fish
with captions such as, "Neon Tetras such as these will appreciate
well-filtered water." Ummm...and...?
In another of my opinions, I will say that I think the best fish
magazine I've ever read is the UK magazine _Practical Fishkeeping._
Everything, and I mean _everything_ about this magazine is excellent.
It's well put together, covers every major aquarium subject in every
edition (through regular columns,) has interesting articles that cater
to more than only raw beginners (assumes you have two brain cells to
rub together,) has good writing, relatively few ads, very, very few
errors, no bad advice that I've ever seen, and best of all, the
illustrations actually pertain to the articles and are informative!
It's just a much higher caliber publication all around - well worth
the price.
http://www.aquarist.net/pfk/index1.htm
See ya,
Kristen
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Eyal Reshef
Why are you not renewing ?
Tim
Trevor Holyoak
Thanks,
Trevor
Dave
Trevor Holyoak wrote:
> What is FAMA?
Trevor Holyoak
hate to risk that much money on a subscription if it turns out to be
all pond and marine, like one that is available locally (can't recall
the name) seems to be.
Thanks,
Trevor
Dave
a statement as to the quality of its articles ;-) but it definitely is
relevant to freshwater as well as pond and marine aquarists.
And I've only read praise for it in the newsgroups.
Kristen
re: FAMA...
>Is it pretty good? I can't seem to find a sample copy locally, and I'd
>hate to risk that much money on a subscription if it turns out to be
>all pond and marine, like one that is available locally (can't recall
>the name) seems to be.
I also looked at TFH and FAMA the day I bought my first copy of
Practical Fishkeeping. I can't recall which one seemed SO stuffed
with marine-specific info (really they both were, but one was in the
extreme,) but it was one of those, and it seemed that a mainly
freshwater hobbyist like me wouldn't get much out of it. Also, both
were jam-packed with ads in comparison to Practical Fishkeeping. That
and an equal amount of articles for freshwater, coldwater, plants,
pond, and marine in PF is why I got it instead of TFH or FAMA, despite
the much higher price.
I suggest you hit the nearest sizable city sometime, find a good store
carrying all these mags and check them out for yourself before
plopping down the cash. I'm lucky the Stroudwater Books here had them
all (except AFM, how telling...)
JJ Opp
You are the most helpful liberal in this newsgroup. : )
JJ
Kristen
>Kristen,
>You are the most helpful liberal in this newsgroup. : )
Thanks! I think?