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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This isnt a book of pretty pictures, go get an amano book for those. This is a book aimed at people who want to setup a low tech easily maintained but beautiful aquatic habitat with plants and fish.
I will admit it is not the easiest of reading in places, but digested in chapters and then re-reading the sections in particular, will expand your knowledge no end!!
I have followed the principles in the book and have a natural based aquarium running for over 2 years now, with all manor of plants and fishes in it. Always happy, healthy and I get many comments on it.
If you want to try something different, get this book :)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Now I'd waited a long time to get this book, which looked very attractive from the overwhelming positive reviews. Certainly the author is very challenging in some of her conclusions (don't clean out the filters too often (she dispenses with filtration material altogether and just uses a circulation pump) as this reduces the positive benefits of dissolved organic carbon in reducing heavy metal toxicity, don't bother with Carbon Dioxide injection, as you can kill off your fish, just feed your plants with excess fish food. Yes the digest of scientific research on plants and algae in natural environments is good- but it seems to be inevitably derived from North American temperate biomes (hello- do you put much sphagnum moss in your tropical fish tank- so is htere much point in relaying optimal growth conditions for this species?).
I truly wonder at her conclusion that it is necessary to be careful about heavy metal toxicity of your tapwater, but it is ok to blithely add garden soil as a substrate to your fish tank (sorry I studied land reclamation at one point- even in Britain there can be very high toxicity of some post industrial soils- for instance the now "natural" looking Peak District has a landscape that can poison off ponies!).
Her advice for establishing plants is to choose nice small well behaved fish. Well we have Richard the heavy duty rescue Plectostomus, so blanket substrate proved to be out (he loves to dig), two nest-building female moonlight gouramis who love to prune- even the Corydoras have occasionally smugly ganged up and uprooted plants as a team. As the author herself admits to killing off fish by scraping algae off the tank surface (which released toxins?)....it comes down to our well worn chant YOU JUST CAN'T WIN.
I think this book would just confuse beginners, as it is not a complete step by step guide by any means. You have to have played with the ecosytem and got past your first few aquatic disasters, before you decide whether or not to adopt some of her suggestions. It's interesting, but I want to take apart her points bit by bit to see if I can improve our tanks. I can't take all her conclusions at face value.
I truly wonder at her conclusion that it is necessary to be careful about heavy metal toxicity of your tapwater, but it is ok to blithely add garden soil as a substrate to your fish tank (sorry I studied land reclamation at one point- even in Britain there can be very high toxicity of some post industrial soils- for instance the now "natural" looking Peak District has a landscape that can poison off ponies!).
Her advice for establishing plants is to choose nice small well behaved fish. Well we have Richard the heavy duty rescue Plectostomus, so blanket substrate proved to be out (he loves to dig), two nest-building female moonlight gouramis who love to prune- even the Corydoras have occasionally smugly ganged up and uprooted plants as a team. As the author herself admits to killing off fish by scraping algae off the tank surface (which released toxins?)....it comes down to our well worn chant YOU JUST CAN'T WIN.
I think this book would just confuse beginners, as it is not a complete step by step guide by any means. You have to have played with the ecosytem and got past your first few aquatic disasters, before you decide whether or not to adopt some of her suggestions. It's interesting, but I want to take apart her points bit by bit to see if I can improve our tanks. I can't take all her conclusions at face value.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book rules!
If you are any serious about keeping freshwater plants you have to own this book. Lots of info on substrate, lighting, alleopathy, algae control, etc.
This book is not a freshwater plant encyclopedia, you will only find some drawings and scarce photos. It is a scientific masterpiece on freshwater botany.
If you are any serious about keeping freshwater plants you have to own this book. Lots of info on substrate, lighting, alleopathy, algae control, etc.
This book is not a freshwater plant encyclopedia, you will only find some drawings and scarce photos. It is a scientific masterpiece on freshwater botany.
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The Real Deal...
This is an excellent book. As explained in other reviews here, this is not like other books on the subject of planted aquariums (good and very useful though some of them may be). Read more
Published on 2 April 2008 by Michael Conaghan
Fantastic!
Buy it. This is not a coffee-table book full of pretty pictures of a few plants. Nor is it an encyclopaedia of plants with just a few notes on keeping plants. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2004 by Andrew McLeod
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I found this book absorbing, easy to read, interesting and yet it still managed to bring out the scientist in me!! Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2001
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