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 sophisticated results. Setting Up a Tropical Aquarium Week-by-Week is an encyclopedic reference that takes a fresh look at setting up and maintaining a tropical freshwater aquarium. New hobbyists are quite often impatient to set up their aquarium and want to add their expensive fish as soon as possible. This common misstep can have disastrous results that may discourage beginners from ever trying again. To curb such enthusiastic impatience, this book presents clear step-by-step practical advice in a convenient week-by-week progression. The book uses detailed photographic sequences to follow each stage of setting up a warm water freshwater tropical aquarium in real-time over a period of ten weeks. The set-up procedure starts with the first day, when the substrate and life-support systems are installed and progresses to the point at which the first fish are added - two weeks later. The book then follows the aquarium's development during the next eight weeks as the tank turns from an artificial environment into a living eco-system. Alongside the main aquarium set-up sequence are photographs that show how to create two different aquascape designs based on a cube and a bow-front tank. Profile sections show fifty aquarium plants and one hundred popular warm water freshwater aquarium fish at relevant stages of the set-up process. Throughout, the book explains the natural processes that occur so that fishkeepers can ensure ongoing success. Combining clear text and simple-to-follow illustrations, Setting Up a Tropical Aquarium Week-by-Week is a crucial reference for tropical freshwater fish hobbyists.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jonathan McWilliams · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would never buy a book like this with all the information already available on the internet. With that said it is a good supplement for people who are truly clueless. I was already a few years into the hobby and understood most of what was in the book. Even if you are a pro it has some nice pictures of fish and plants that are fun to look at and you might a thing or two from it.

[lurra · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book taught me how to set-up a tropical aquarium, week-by-week. I had already set my aquarium up, however.