Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist
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Summary
Description
Book presents scientific information that hobbyists can use to set up and maintain successful planted freshwater aquaria. Book contains practical tips using a question-and-answer format in boxes scattered throughout the text. Hobbyists learn how to keep a healthy and inexpensive aquarium. Although the author prefers low-tech methods, she lays out the science that underlies all methods. The author shows that hobbyists can create thriving planted freshwater tanks WITHOUT CO2 injection, fertilizers, expensive lighting, and other high-tech gadgets.
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General Impressions
Readers of the book say Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist is not a coffee table book. It's many topics in detail which are seldom mentioned elsewhere. And in general, this book is certainly for you. If you just want to know how to set up a planted aquarium, users would suggest skipping to the eleventh and final chapter. Here is the most common feedback on the book:
great reference material
what a great reference book for planted aquarium enthusiasts.
Recommendations
When it comes to the audience, Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist is recommended to anybody with an aquarium and anyone thinking about aqua scaping. And it may be useful to anyone who wants to have a simple, low tech, system. Also readers are sure, this book is a must for anyone having an aquarium. As well as for any aquascaper who wishes to know more about the why and how of plant ecology.
Main Uses
Quite often Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist is used for a simple hobbyist. And also it may come in handy for the beginning aquarist with a scientific background. The resource is also useful when you want to change your decisions.Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist helped readers understand the importance of an equal ecosystem between plants and fish and its extremely detailed wording helps set up a new low tech tank.
Content
The book goes into actual setup, planting and maintenance and that is fairly limited. And it pays a lot of attention to justify something people are doing a live experiment on, but some users would question the actual engineering standpoint of the book. The book focuses on the science of planted aquarium. We'd also say, it pays a lot of attention to a natural aquarium.
Features
Readers especially mention that Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist sets a new standard for books on the subject by replacing anecdotal arguments, didacticism, marketing promises, and myth with science. Among nice features, readers mention that reading this book gave them answers to all of they why questions when it comes to planted aquariums and they will refer to it in the years to come as.
Style
This book is for beginners and advanced, the beginners can read the final part of the book for quick installation and the advanced or beginners who want to move to the advanced category, they must read the entire content to have full knowledge of the processes that occur in the aquarium. They also say that at first if you are new to the planted tank, everything might seem like a foreign language, but as you go along and learn along the way it starts to make more sense.
