Aquarium Designs Inspired by Nature

by Peter Hiscock

This lavishly photo-filled volume demonstrates that having an aquarium to be proud of means much more than keeping fish in a glass tank. The aquarium enthusiast who takes his hobby seriously... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764155490
• ISBN13: 9780764155499
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

An excellent read

While most people tout the pictures, I find the Hiscock's description of the different ecosystems fascinating. For example, most people know, at the most, that Zebra Fish come from Eastern India. This book, however, goes quite a bit further in explaining what someone would see if you visited this fish's natural habitat. This book makes you appreciate where your fish come from and motivates you to recreate its environment so that your fish live a happier life in the aquarium.

If you need inspiration.....

Wow, this book really helped me get through my "tank block". I sort of knew what I wanted but couldn't put anything together. Once I read this book, I got tons of ideas! This book contains not only several different aquascapes to mimic natural environments from all around the world, but detailed information on the plants, fish, substrate, and construction. If you want to do a biotope this is defintley a great starting point. Or if you're just looking for basic design ideas, this would definitley work too. Highly recommended.

Just a quick note for beginner aquarists

Hi...I bought this book thinking it would help me design my first aquarium. Well, it does, if your fist aquarium is a biotope. I would not recommend this book for beginners who are looking for basic ideas to set up their first tank. It DOES have a great intro on fish, substrates and planting. In my opinion, this book is GREAT for someone who has earned their experience and is now up for a new challenge, ie, designing a biotope. If you don't feel like choosing particular types of rocks and gluing them together with silicone to make caves, or, varnishing bamboo inside and out, then, I would recommend that you search the web and look at pictures of other peoples tanks. If you want to set up an African cichlid tank or mangrove biotope, this book is perfect. I still give it 5 stars. Good luck.

An Incredible Book!

As a tropical fish keeper since childhood (35+ years) my aquariums always looked real "plain". Then I found this book. Not only does it have about 20 different proposed designs (like European River, Southeast Asia Swamp) but it them specifies the gravel type, plants to use, and fish to populate it with to make the real thing. You don't have to do all the things suggested but it give you great ideas to design your aquarium (or redesign it). It is packed full of color pictures and has plenty of advice. It is full color, hard back and 200 pages.I really can't believe the author put as much time and effort into this book as he did.