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Interpet Handbooks
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A range of excellent hardcover books on pond, tropical and marine fishes
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Interpet Handbook : Understanding Coldwater Fish
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Understanding how coldwater fish live and breed is the key to keeping them successfully in the aquarium and pond.
This book provides the "inside" story you need
Author :
Dick Mills
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 coldwater 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 overview of popular coldwater fish, a guide to their classification and a helpful glossary of terms
Includes full-color photos and drawings.
Contents:
Introduction
What is a coldwater fish
How coldwater fish work
Special Adaptations
How coldwater fish breed
Keeping coldwater fish
A selection of coldwater fish
A guide to classification
Glossary
Index and credits
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN 1-903098-10-6
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 Interpet Handbook : Understanding Coldwater Fish £1.99 |
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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
Author : Phillip Swindells
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
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN 1-902389-98-0
This book has been discontinued by the publisher
Price reduced on the remaining copy to clear from stock
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| Interpet Handbook : Popular Pond Plants £4.99 |
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Interpet Handbook : How to Keep Koi
How to keep Koi : an Essential Guide
Seeing these magnificent oriental carp makes you want to create your own Koi pond. This new book tells you how to make that dream a practical reality
Author : David Twigg
An invaluable guide for all aspiring Koi keepers keen to accept the challenge of maintaining and displaying these beautiful fish in their own pond.
Using clear text, colour photographs and stunning graphics, this book provides a practical introduction to all aspects of fishkeeping Koi, from pond building options and filtration methods to breeding and showing.
Other sections provide advice on siting a Koi pond in the garden and the vital aspects of feeding and health care.
This book closes with a helpful glossary, which includes clear descriptions of the variety names and Japanese terms used throughout the hobby.
Include full-color photos and drawings.
Contents:
- Introduction
- All about Koi
- The water garden
- Pond building options
- Filtration and water quality
- Feeding Koi
- Koi health care
- Breeding Koi
- Buying and showing Koi
- Glossary
- Index and credits
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN 1-903098-07-6
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| Interpet Handbook : How to Keep Koi £5.99 |
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Interpet Handbook : Understanding Tropical Fish
Understanding how tropical fish live and breed
Author : Gina Sandford
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
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN 1-903098-09-2
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| Interpet Handbook : Understanding Tropical Fish £5.99 |
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Interpet Handbook : Creating a Natural Aquarium
How to recreate the natural world within your aquarium.
Author : Peter Hiscock
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
Hard Back : 141 Pages
Size : 217mm x 156mm
ISBN 1-903098-11-4
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| Interpet Handbook : Creating a Natural Aquarium £5.99 |
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