Essential Tropical Fish: Setup & Maintenance Guide
By Anne Finlay
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About this ebook
Essential Tropical Fish: Setup & Maintenance is the essential guide to setting up your tank and looking after your aquarium, providing a resource for both beginner and enthusiast.
Compiled from years of experience selling fish in the local pet store and the fish trade, this book goes through the procedure of selecting a tank, setting it up with filters, heaters, lights, sand, decor and live plants.
It then goes onto preparing the tank for fish - cycling the tank and achieving the correct water parameters.
Included are suggestions for tank maintenance, how to clean your filter, the tank and how to keep your tank looking sharp.
It is our hope that fish keeping will bring you as much fun and enjoyment as it has brought us over the years.
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Essential Tropical Fish - Anne Finlay
Essential Tropical Fish: Setup & Maintenance
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About the Author
Anne Finlay has had a life long fascination with tropical fish from an early age, starting off with keeping gold fish then moving on to tropical and marine fish.
This led to studying them further at college and working at a public aquarium maintaining the tanks and advising people on the various species.
Her experience of the hobby and the fish trade keeps her abreast of the latest developments and has become the basis for writing this book.
Fish are fascinating to watch and hope you enjoy them as much as we have.
Table of Contents
Basic Equipment 8
Tanks 8
Filters 10
What Size Filter? 12
Heaters 13
Lights 14
Fluorescent Tubes 14
LED Lighting 15
Metal Halide 15
How Much Light? 16
Water Conditioners 17
Siphons 18
Pumps 19
Rocks & Décor 20
Substrate & Gravel 21
Driftwood & Bogwood 23
Other Tools 24
Air Pumps 25
Setting Up Your Tank 28
Install Filter & Heater 28
Lights 29
Add the Substrate & Gravel 30
Adding Rocks & Décor 33
Plant your Plants 34
Preparing your Tank for Fish 38
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