Aquarium Keeping & Rescue: The Essential Saltwater Handbook & Log Download Free (EPUB, PDF)

                
              
Aquarium Keeping & Rescue: The Essential Saltwater Handbook & Log Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
A vital tool for all aquarium keepers, this commonsense owner's manual makes sparkling, healthy aquariums a reality without drudgery. Includes clear, step-by-step advice on routine maintenance, resurrecting a distressed aquarium, and troubleshooting problems with algae, water quality, fish diseases, and other common challenges. This book also provides convenient Aquarium Reference and Logbook sections.
Spiral-bound: 111 pages
Publisher: Microcosm Ltd (September 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1890087491
ISBN-13: 978-1890087494
Product Dimensions:  0.8 x 9 x 10.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #668,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)   #180 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Pets & Animal Care > Fish & Aquariums   #311 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Animals > Fish & Sharks   #4299 in Books > Science & Math > Nature & Ecology > Fauna
This book is a practical guide on how to perform the maintenance on your salt water aquarium. Even though other books cover the subject, most of them do no centralize the subject or present a step-by-step guide, which makes this book unique. Each subject is explained in a very straight-forward way using layman's term. Most books takes a lot of time and goes very deeply explaining each water parameter, for example, what doesn't happen with this book: the author tries to summarize everything at the maximum, but without being shallow.The chapters present in this book are:1. What is The Well-Kept Marine Aquarium2. Water Testing3. Daily Maintenance4. Weekly Maintenance5. Work Sessions6. Afflictions7. Mainenance Animals8. ResurrectionPlus a very useful troubleshooting guide.This book is also supposed to be a log, and that is why it is published using spiral-bond. It is hardcover, though, plus top-notch paper quality.I personally didn't like the spiral-bond approach, but this is my personal opinion. More complicated was the use of the "Comic Sans" font throughout the book, which makes it very hard to read. Anyone with the minimum degree of taste knows that this was a really bad choice.The pictures and illustrations are very good, even though on some pictures you can clearly see that the resolution under which the picture was taken was a low one, not appropriate for hard-printing. But this is a also a picky detail from someone with background in technology.I gave this book four stars only because of the presentation. If the font inside the book was Times or any Serif-based font I'd give it 5 stars for sure.
Intending to start my first saltwater aquarium I first bought this and several other books on the subject. I got some good information out of them all, but the best one to get me started correctly was AQUARIUM KEEPING & RESCUE. It is very matter of fact and tells you how it should be done. It does not always tell you why, but instead tells you to get a book on just that subject to learn more. In this way it keeps the book interesting and useful without dragging you into learning things that can wait until you have some experience and knowledge of the basics. I have learned more than I thought I ever would need in the last 18 months and this is still the book I open most for a reminder or forgotten basic fact. This should be a "must have" for all beginners and seriously considered by all but the experts.
Nicely done! I have had a few reef tanks for about three years now and I must say this is the best reference book I have purchased to date. The information is straight-forward enough for the layman without leaning too much to the technical.The templates are most helpful to track changes in water parameters, especially when trying out new treatments for nitrates, phosphates, etc.
the book is ok for general use but, i was expecting a more indepth description of the rescueportion of the book
This book is full of very useful information and charts. It helped a lot when I rescued coral from a friends tank.
I have several Saltwater Aquarium books and each one has new information that I can use.
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