There are approx. 100 textbooks about the care and use of fish in research in the TextBase database, which may be helpful when deciding upon the hypotheses in a fish experiment. The more general books include:
- The Laboratory Fish in Biomedical Research: Biology, Husbandry and Research Applications for zebrafish, medaka, killifish, cavefish, stickleback, goldfish and Danionella (D'Angelo & de Girolamo, 2021)
- The Laboratory Fish (ed. Ostrander, 2000)
- The Laboratory Zebrafish (Harper & Lawrence, 2010)
- Guidance on the housing and care of Zebrafish (Danio rerio) (Reed & Jennings, 2010)
- CCAC Guidelines: Zebrafish and other small, warm-water laboratory fish (2020)
- CCAC Guidelines on the Care and Use of Fish in Research, Teaching and Testing (2005)
- The Welfare of Fish (eds. Kristiansen et al., 2020)
- The Physiology of Fishes (eds. Currie & Evans, 2020)
Books on more specific subjects are mentioned under the appropriate sections in PREPARE.