Sunken Gardens: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planting Freshwater Aquariums (Paperback)

Sunken Gardens: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planting Freshwater Aquariums By Karen A. Randall Cover Image
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The essential guide to creating your own underwater world.

Sunken Gardens is packed with everything you need to plan, design, and maintain a planted freshwater aquarium. Karen Randall shares her years of expertise and makes this enchanting hobby accessible to everyone. You’ll learn everything from the biology of aquatic plants and basic aquarium chemistry to tank maintenance and troubleshooting. Plant profiles highlight the best options for a range of tank situations, and a chapter devoted to aquascaping styles provides basic design principles and inspiring examples. With hundreds of color photographs and clear, reliable advice, Sunken Gardens is an essential introduction to a fascinating pastime.


 

About the Author


Karen A. Randall is an expert on planted display aquariums and the propagation of aquatic plants. Her articles and photography have been published internationally. For many years she wrote the monthly column “Sunken Gardens” in Aquarium Fish Magazine and is now technical editor of the Aquatic Gardeners Association magazine, The Aquatic Gardener. In 2003 she won the Northeast Council of Aquarium Society’s Betty Mueller Award, a lifetime award for her outreach work and other contributions to the aquarium hobby.

Praise For…


“Offers curious would-be-aquarium owners an introduction to the world of aquatic plant care in the home” and that “With Randall’s book in hand, the hobby of aquarium gardening is well in reach!” —NYBG’s Plant Talk

“This is one of the best aquarium books I have ever read.” —AQUAdesign 


Product Details
ISBN: 9781604695922
ISBN-10: 1604695927
Publisher: Timber Press
Publication Date: February 14th, 2017
Pages: 252
Language: English

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