Volumes in this brand new series present aquarium enthusiasts with virtually all the facts they need to create beautiful and healthful environments for fish and other aquatic life.
This comprehensive book shows you clearly and simply how to set up a stunning tropical freshwater aquarium on a week-by-week basis, including when to put in your first fish and how to grow aquarium plants to perfection.
For anyone eager to create an aquarium filled with colorful tropical fish, this guide has the sound advice a beginner needs to choose varieties that happily co-exist, keep them healthy, and arrange a pleasing visual display.
During the next ten weeks, the tank turns from an artificial environment into a living community. This is a crucial period in the life of a new aquarium often beset with problems that fishkeepers find alarming.
SLENDER ( OR GRACEFUL ) CATFISH Pimelodella gracilis to 5 in . POLKA - DOT CATFISH Pimelodus clarias to 10 in . ... BAGRID CATFISH ( Bagridae ) BUMBLEBEE CATFISH , from the Old World , are similar to the pimelodids ( p .
This book is a complete guide to setting up and maintaining a freshwater aquarium. Perfect for the beginner hobbyist, it includes detailed descriptions of over 30 species of freshwater fish.
Alderton, David, The International Encyclopedia of Tropical Freshwater Fish (Howell Book House, New York, USA, 1997). ... Andrews, Chris, A Fishkeeper's Guide to Fish Breeding (Salamander Books, London, UK, 1986).
This guide answers all your questions, from setting up your reef tank, installing the sump, conducting a wet test, test running the aquarium to installing the live rock and much more.
This is followed by expert advice on feeding, maintenance, health care, and breeding.
A comprehensive and encyclopedic reference to help the novice set up and maintain a tropical freshwater aquarium, featuring a practical advice and a step-by-step 10 week progression to a living eco-system.