Interpet Handbooks
A range of excellent hardcover books on pond, tropical and marine fishes
Interpet Handbook : Popular Pond Plants
How to use and maintain a wide range of plants in and around your garden pond, including waterlilies, aquatics, marginals and bog garden plants
A colourful and practical guide to choosing and using a wide range of pond plants.
Specially commissioned step-by-step photographs show planting techniques, essential maintenance, propagation, plus how to recognize and treat common plant pests and diseases.
All popular types of pond plants are featured, including submerged oxygenators, deepwater aquatics, floating plants, water lilies of all sizes and colours, marginals, plus a selection of moisture-loving bog garden plants.
Includes full-color photos and drawings.
Contents:
A colourful and practical guide to choosing and using a wide range of pond plants.
Specially commissioned step-by-step photographs show planting techniques, essential maintenance, propagation, plus how to recognize and treat common plant pests and diseases.
All popular types of pond plants are featured, including submerged oxygenators, deepwater aquatics, floating plants, water lilies of all sizes and colours, marginals, plus a selection of moisture-loving bog garden plants.
Includes full-color photos and drawings.
Contents:
- Part one - The role of pond plants
- Creating a water garden
- Using pond plants
- Propagating pond plants
- Pests and diseases
- Part two - A selection of pond plants
- Waterlilies
- Deep water aquatics
- Marginal plants
- Hardy submerged plants
- Hardy floating plants
- Bog garden plants
- Index and credits
Author : Phillip Swindells
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN : 1-902389-98-0
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN : 1-902389-98-0
Interpet Handbook : Understanding Tropical Fish
Understanding how tropical fish live and breed
An invaluable guide for all fish keepers keen to learn more about the fascinating and delicate creatures in their care.
Using clear text, colour photographs and stunning illustrations, this book provides a unique 'behind the scenes' look at how freshwater tropical fish live in their watery environment. It explores all aspects of their everyday lives, including their basic structure, How they sense the world around them and how they reproduce.
The book closes with an over view of popular tropical freshwater fish presented in their scientific groupings for easy reference.
Include full-color photos and drawings.
Contents:
An invaluable guide for all fish keepers keen to learn more about the fascinating and delicate creatures in their care.
Using clear text, colour photographs and stunning illustrations, this book provides a unique 'behind the scenes' look at how freshwater tropical fish live in their watery environment. It explores all aspects of their everyday lives, including their basic structure, How they sense the world around them and how they reproduce.
The book closes with an over view of popular tropical freshwater fish presented in their scientific groupings for easy reference.
Include full-color photos and drawings.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Living in water
- First impressions
- Under the skin
- The senses
- How fish feed
- Special strategies
- Reproduction
- A scientific summary
- Index and credits
Author : Gina Sandford
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN 1-903098-09-2
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN 1-903098-09-2
Interpet Handbook : Creating a Natural Aquarium
How to recreate the natural world within your aquarium
A fascinating world tour of natural biotypes and how to recreate them in the aquarium. Using clear text, location views and photographs of the ingredients and the finished results, the book explains how to put together aquarium displays that will reflect twelve different natural environments, ranging from a mountain stream to a mangrove swamp. Each chapter also presents a selection of fishes suitable for that aquarium.
The book provides practical guidance on all aspects of aquascaping, from choosing substrates, rocks and wood to selecting and positioning aquarium plants.
Include full-color photos and drawings.
Contents:
A fascinating world tour of natural biotypes and how to recreate them in the aquarium. Using clear text, location views and photographs of the ingredients and the finished results, the book explains how to put together aquarium displays that will reflect twelve different natural environments, ranging from a mountain stream to a mangrove swamp. Each chapter also presents a selection of fishes suitable for that aquarium.
The book provides practical guidance on all aspects of aquascaping, from choosing substrates, rocks and wood to selecting and positioning aquarium plants.
Include full-color photos and drawings.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The path of a river
- Making a biotope aquarium
- Aquascaping
- A mountain stream
- A central American stream
- A central American river
- An Australian river
- A European river
- A flooded forest
- An Amazon acid pool
- A southeast Asian swamp
- Lake Malawi
- A darkened cave
- A brackish estuary
- A mangrove swamp
- Index and credits
Author : Peter Hiscock
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN : 1-903098-11-4
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN : 1-903098-11-4
