Aquarium Plants (CompanionHouse Books) Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting, Feeding, Propagating, and Growing Fish Tank Plants with Expert Advice on Water Quality, Lighting, Substrates, and More

Choose the right plants for your aquarium! Everything you need to know to grow healthy aquarium plants How to add plants to your aquarium and make a stunning display Types of plants best for background, midground, foreground, and floating Over 300 photos, clear illustrations, and drawings Expert author Peter Hiscock is highly skilled in aquascaping and fish keeping Aquarium Plants is overflowing with full-color photographs–over 300 in total–that bring the many beautiful plants in this book to life. Written by a fish keeping expert who has first-hand experience in answering hobbyist’s questions, this book is loaded with sensible, practical advice, starting with an animated science lesson on how plants grow to help improve your aquatic green thumbs! Dedicated chapters cover vital topics like water quality, the use of substrates, choosing healthy plants, and planting techniques–offering all the information you need to know to establish well-planted, vibrant fish tank decor. The lighting section provides lists of plants that thrive in low, moderate, bright, and very bright light and explains the differing effects of light on plants. Aquarium Plants offers essential information on feeding plants, propagating plants, keeping plants healthy, and choosing suitable fish. Creative aquarists will welcome the chapters on designing the aquarium decor, using various elements of display, and creating a themed tank–such as an African theme or a cold or hard water aquarium. The “Popular Aquarium Plants” section recommends specific plants for different areas of the aquarium, including background, foreground, midground, and floating plants. For each, the author offers dozens of options, all of which are represented by vibrant color photographs. Create an aquarium that is as stylish as it is functional, with Aquarium Plants!