Setting up a Tropical Aquarium Week by Week

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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.

It is a good book but it is strictly for people that have never had a aquarium and are just setting it up or haven't yet.

Very complete and detailed. Show a sequence of tasks to build a planted tank, stuff for work, types of plant and fishes.I liked the part of how to treat wood and substrate.

The fish section is arranged into three groups: first fish, second fish, and third fish. Its very good. The book is great for people who want to use real plants in their tank. (First fish should be added to the tank first, second fish should be added second, etc).The only problem I had with this book is that there is too much emphasis on plants. Personally, I am more interested in animal life and less interested in the plant life. The author sets up a single tank in the beginning and by the end of the book (week 12) it is fully established.

There are full color pictures on every page. Theres a big section with various plants arranged into four categories: background plants, midground plants, foreground plants, and floating plants. I got this from a local library. If there was an updated, cheaper, paperback edition, I'd probably buy it. Various species are pictured and described. But if you're a beginner and you want to have real plants in your tank then you will love this book.

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.

This is a nice book for anyone that wants to set up an aquarium properly. Very helpful.