Complete Book of Aquarium Plants [Hardcover]

Robert Allgayer (Author), Jacques Teton (Author)

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd (September 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 070636614X
• ISBN-13: 978-0706366143
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,721,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource with lots of detailed info., November 18, 2005

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This review is from: The Complete Book of Aquarium Plants (Paperback)

Great book with 150 pages packed with detailed information, charts, and photographs. Topics include:
-Proper methods for shipping, disinfecting, and acclimating plants.
-Planting and trimming techniques.
-Lots of info on lighting quality, spectrum and intensity, use of proper reflectors, and emulating a natural lighting rhythm.
-Covers ideal water chemistry: PH, hardness, CO2, fertilizers, and trace elements.
-Info for getting optimum CO2 levels with both store bought and DIY reactors and diffusers.
-Covers the pros and cons of different types of substrate, rocks, and wood.
-Neat chapter on how to make safe 3d backgrounds with polystyrene, resin, polyurethane.
-Info on setups for community, biotope, and Dutch tanks.
-Charts with plants, fish, substrate, water chemistry info for the different biotopes.
-Charts of what fish eat what plants.
-Instructions for constructing your own large aquarium from scratch.
-Second half of book contains over 150 profiles of aquarium plants with color photos, care requirements and propagation information.