Essential Tropical Fish: Setup & Maintenance Guide

By Anne Finlay

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, se

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elluminet Press
• Release date: Nov 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781911174790

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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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