Setting Up a Tropical Aquarium Week by Week

by Stuart Thraves

A week-by-week practical guide to setting up and maintaining a superb living environment As fishkeeping continues to grow in popularity, hobbyists are looking for authoritative advice and more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552979334
• ISBN13: 9781552979334
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

A Must!

This is a great book with lots of illustrations and information. In setting up a new tank, this author has isolated all the important information a beginner should have and if you follow it, the results are awesome. A must have!

A great book for beginners

This book covers different topics from tank setup to maintenance. It is a well written book with a lots of pictures. Anyone can get a lot of information from internet, however, this book gives the best coverage of planning a beautiful planted aquarium step by step. I wish that I could read this before I bought my starter kit. While this is a great tool book to own for a beginner, I do wish it can go a little bit deeper on some of topics.

Lighting systems, cleaning and filtering systems, fish choice and feeding plants

There are plenty of books on the market which discuss the home tropical aquarium, from choosing fish to maintenance: so what makes Stuart Thraves' Setting Up A Tropical Aquarium Week By Week so special? It's his weekly focus on the project, from day one to week 12, which offers step-by-step clear instructions on how to correctly set up a tropical freshwater aquarium. Lighting systems, cleaning and filtering systems, fish choice and feeding plants: all are given photo embellishments and very clear direction.

THE best general freshwater aquarium reference I've read.

This is a great and complete reference for the beginning to experienced aquarist. Excellent photos demonstrate what the text explains. The author not only introduces the more difficult technical procedures for keeping an aquarium, but clearly explains how to implement them and the natural processes they affect. I also particularly enjoyed that the author frequently discusses the latest innovations and equipment for the home aquarium. If there was one book for the aquarist that I would recommend, it would be this one.

A Great Beginners Guide

Wow, I wish they had a book like this when I started fish keeping. I think there would be fewer fish in heaven if I had a book this informative. From tank choice to maintenance, the 12 weeks this book covers is jam packed with practical information. This book includes helpful information on plants, filters, fish choice, fish diseases and much more. The step-by-step photos are great and extremely easy to follow. The information is timeless and very well done. This is a great gift for anyone who has or wants to get a fish tank.