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Setting up a Tropical Aquarium Week by Week
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Published: 2004-10-02
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Editorial review:
A week-by-week practical guide to setting up and maintaining a superb living environment PAs fishkeeping continues to grow in popularity, hobbyists are looking for authoritative advice and more sophisticated results. PSetting Up a Tropical Aquarium Week-by-Week is an encyclopedic reference that takes a fresh look at setting up and maintaining a tropical freshwater aquarium. New hobbyists are quite often impatient to set up their aquarium and want to add their expensive fish as soon as possible. This common misstep can have disastrous results that may discourage beginners from ever trying again. PTo curb such enthusiastic impatience, this book presents clear step-by-step practical advice in a convenient week-by-week progression. The book uses detailed photographic sequences to follow each stage of setting up a warm water freshwater tropical aquarium in real-time over a period of ten weeks. PThe set-up procedure starts with the first day, when the substrate and life-support systems are installed and progresses to the point at which the first fish are added - two weeks later. The book then follows the aquarium's development during the next eight weeks as the tank turns from an artificial environment into a living eco-system. PAlongside the main aquarium set-up sequence are photographs that show how to create two different aquascape designs based on a cube and a bow-front tank. PProfile sections show fifty aquarium plants and one hundred popular warm water freshwater aquarium fish at relevant stages of the set-up process. Throughout, the book explains the natural processes that occur so that fishkeepers can ensure ongoing success. PCombining clear text and simple-to-follow illustrations, Setting Up a Tropical Aquarium Week-by-Week is a crucial reference for tropical freshwater fish hobbyists.
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5 stars. Setting up an aquarium
This is a great book for a newbie like me. I've had fish before, but a long time ago, and I've never had a modern tank with modern equipment. This gives me a template to follow to have a functioning tank that looks like I want it to look, and works like I need it to work. I really like it!
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5 stars. Excellent beginners guide
I have had an aquarium before, it lasted a couple of months, and then everything went kaput. I purchased the book, read it, and have now set up a new aquarium, and so far so good! The author gives detailed instructions, and a timeline, which I really love. It also has a great section on appropriate fish, and whether or not certain fish get along, eat each other, etc. I feel more confident this time around with this book ready to answer my questions.
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5 stars. Great for a beginner aquarist
I had never owned a large aquarium before, this book has set me up perfectly! easy to follow with pictures for every step- day by to to week by week, including fish selections.
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5 stars. Specific on a number of topics
I just received this book the other day and have been reading it nightly. I had an aquarium a few years ago and I am having a big one delivered next week. This is specific about many subjects areas including a whole bunch of plant species I am interested in. I recommend it to at least the novices like me.
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3 stars. Tropical Aquarium Week by Week
It is a good book but it is strictly for people that have never had a aquarium and are just setting it up or haven't yet.
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