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The Discus Book Tropical Fish Keeping Special Edition: Celebrating 25 years - Natural Aquariums, Healthy Diets and Fish Care
The Discus Book Tropical Fish Keeping Special Edition - Celebrating 25 Years!
For Natural Aquariums, Healthy Diets, Fish Care and more.....
"The Discus Book" first published in 1989, now celebrating 25 years in 2014 with this full colour special edition. With over 110 full colour pictures and just 17 black and white images of early days spanning 25 years as a special edition book.
Description of the Book:
This Book is for all Tropical Fish Hobbyists and enthusiasts. Where you will find inside the book proven methods for the successful keeping of any tropical fish, always healthy and disease free......
This "Special Edition" is for all Tropical Fish Keeping enthusiasts of all ages. With a blaze of fabulous colour plates and pictures, including images and photographs from the breeders first book 25 years ago and now these archive images serving as a time capsule in book form, for every Aquarist to study, reminisce and enjoy!
Where many of the old methods are still always the best!
Covering Fish Care for Discus, Cichlids and other Tropical Fish species. Natural Aquariums, Successful Breeding of Cichlids, Community Fish Aquariums, Filtration, Lighting, Suitable Plants, Special Recipes in the book for Preparing High Protein Fish Food to ensure your tropical fish are always healthy and thriving.........
"Author: Alastair R Agutter, began keeping and breeding tropical fish cichlids as a hobbyist from the age of 9 years, now with over 46 years experience."
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK:
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS The Discus Book celebrating 25 years on since the 1st Edition was written, the advancements and specie strains since those early pioneers of breeding.
INTRODUCTION Introduction to the Book and the concerns expressed even 25 years later after writing this book in hard copy.
CHAPTER ONE The Discus and its Natural Environment.
CHAPTER TWO The Wild Discus Species from South America.
CHAPTER THREE The Importance of the Correct Aquarium.
CHAPTER FOUR Live and Prepared Foods for the Discus Diet.
CHAPTER FIVE The Requirements for Discus Fish Filtration.
CHAPTER SIX The Genetics and Different Strains of Discus Fish.
CHAPTER SEVEN The Lighting and Electrical Needs.
CHAPTER EIGHT Collecting and Purchasing the Correct Fish.
CHAPTER NINE The Correct Water and Techniques.
CHAPTER TEN The Spawning of Symphysodon (the hard work begins).
CHAPTER ELEVEN A Natural Discus Fish Aquarium with suggested Plant Species and Equipment, for a stunning aquarium.
CHAPTER TWELVE The type of other Fish species you can enjoy and have with Discus Fish in a Community Aquarium.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Fish Care and the important points for having healthy Discus Fish and other Tropical fish species by forming a bond and routine.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Identifying Symptoms of the Discus Fish diseased and other Tropical Fish species, the remedies and the steps you can take to try and cure.
CHAPTER FIFTHTEEN Concluding points and other related resources and places of interest on the World Wide Web for following your passion and interest.
For Natural Aquariums, Healthy Diets, Fish Care and more.....
"The Discus Book" first published in 1989, now celebrating 25 years in 2014 with this full colour special edition. With over 110 full colour pictures and just 17 black and white images of early days spanning 25 years as a special edition book.
Description of the Book:
This Book is for all Tropical Fish Hobbyists and enthusiasts. Where you will find inside the book proven methods for the successful keeping of any tropical fish, always healthy and disease free......
This "Special Edition" is for all Tropical Fish Keeping enthusiasts of all ages. With a blaze of fabulous colour plates and pictures, including images and photographs from the breeders first book 25 years ago and now these archive images serving as a time capsule in book form, for every Aquarist to study, reminisce and enjoy!
Where many of the old methods are still always the best!
Covering Fish Care for Discus, Cichlids and other Tropical Fish species. Natural Aquariums, Successful Breeding of Cichlids, Community Fish Aquariums, Filtration, Lighting, Suitable Plants, Special Recipes in the book for Preparing High Protein Fish Food to ensure your tropical fish are always healthy and thriving.........
"Author: Alastair R Agutter, began keeping and breeding tropical fish cichlids as a hobbyist from the age of 9 years, now with over 46 years experience."
CONTENTS OF THE BOOK:
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS The Discus Book celebrating 25 years on since the 1st Edition was written, the advancements and specie strains since those early pioneers of breeding.
INTRODUCTION Introduction to the Book and the concerns expressed even 25 years later after writing this book in hard copy.
CHAPTER ONE The Discus and its Natural Environment.
CHAPTER TWO The Wild Discus Species from South America.
CHAPTER THREE The Importance of the Correct Aquarium.
CHAPTER FOUR Live and Prepared Foods for the Discus Diet.
CHAPTER FIVE The Requirements for Discus Fish Filtration.
CHAPTER SIX The Genetics and Different Strains of Discus Fish.
CHAPTER SEVEN The Lighting and Electrical Needs.
CHAPTER EIGHT Collecting and Purchasing the Correct Fish.
CHAPTER NINE The Correct Water and Techniques.
CHAPTER TEN The Spawning of Symphysodon (the hard work begins).
CHAPTER ELEVEN A Natural Discus Fish Aquarium with suggested Plant Species and Equipment, for a stunning aquarium.
CHAPTER TWELVE The type of other Fish species you can enjoy and have with Discus Fish in a Community Aquarium.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Fish Care and the important points for having healthy Discus Fish and other Tropical fish species by forming a bond and routine.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Identifying Symptoms of the Discus Fish diseased and other Tropical Fish species, the remedies and the steps you can take to try and cure.
CHAPTER FIFTHTEEN Concluding points and other related resources and places of interest on the World Wide Web for following your passion and interest.
160 pages, Paperback
First published April 28, 2014
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About the author
Alastair R. Agutter
37 books4 followersAlastair R Agutter born in Farnborough 1958 is a proud Father of five Children, and an Amazon Best Selling Author of Specialist Books and Publications covering; Human Interests, Wild Life, the Sciences and Child Development.
Authors Best Selling Specialist Books include; The Discus Book (still a best seller after 25 years), The Discus Book Tropical Fish Keeping Special Edition, My First Aquarium Collectors Edition, Children's Weebies Early Reading, Children's Weebies Bird Watching, Gardening For Beginners, Super Foods Tropical Fish and Discus Book and The Discus Book 2nd Edition.
More Specialist Books and Publications, including some new releases are; The Tropical Fish Keeping Journals, Getting Inside Google's Head, The Parents Guide, The Reality of Climate Change, The Theory of Particle Matter Frequencies, The School Boys Art of Football, Children's Weebies Alphabet A to Z, Children's Weebies Goes Gardening, Children's Weebies Halloween Night, Gardening For Beginners Pocket Book Edition, The Five Minute Guide to HTML 5.0, The News Almanac 2013, Children's Weebies Early Counting, Social Media The Sum of Everything Equals Zero, Der Diskus Buch, Creating The New Internet Super Highway, Children's Weebies What's That Series in 12 languages for early child development, learning to read and write.
Today Alastair is a full-time Author, after a 35 year Professional Career in Marketing and Communications, Product Engineering Development and Artificial Intelligence, namely the World Wide Web.
Current international community volunteer work of Alastair includes; Parental Ratings Program (to protect minors online), The Weather Outlook Project (climate change awareness), HTML 5.0 Open Standard (fast and efficient structured compliant standards of creative web design), the Aquarists Ark Project (in the event of a natural marine disaster) and lastly The Author Journal Project for an informed audience and world (producing real factual news and articles).
Alastair is always very grateful and humbled to all his wonderful ‘Readers’ world-wide for buying his printed and digital books. Thank You!
Authors Best Selling Specialist Books include; The Discus Book (still a best seller after 25 years), The Discus Book Tropical Fish Keeping Special Edition, My First Aquarium Collectors Edition, Children's Weebies Early Reading, Children's Weebies Bird Watching, Gardening For Beginners, Super Foods Tropical Fish and Discus Book and The Discus Book 2nd Edition.
More Specialist Books and Publications, including some new releases are; The Tropical Fish Keeping Journals, Getting Inside Google's Head, The Parents Guide, The Reality of Climate Change, The Theory of Particle Matter Frequencies, The School Boys Art of Football, Children's Weebies Alphabet A to Z, Children's Weebies Goes Gardening, Children's Weebies Halloween Night, Gardening For Beginners Pocket Book Edition, The Five Minute Guide to HTML 5.0, The News Almanac 2013, Children's Weebies Early Counting, Social Media The Sum of Everything Equals Zero, Der Diskus Buch, Creating The New Internet Super Highway, Children's Weebies What's That Series in 12 languages for early child development, learning to read and write.
Today Alastair is a full-time Author, after a 35 year Professional Career in Marketing and Communications, Product Engineering Development and Artificial Intelligence, namely the World Wide Web.
Current international community volunteer work of Alastair includes; Parental Ratings Program (to protect minors online), The Weather Outlook Project (climate change awareness), HTML 5.0 Open Standard (fast and efficient structured compliant standards of creative web design), the Aquarists Ark Project (in the event of a natural marine disaster) and lastly The Author Journal Project for an informed audience and world (producing real factual news and articles).
Alastair is always very grateful and humbled to all his wonderful ‘Readers’ world-wide for buying his printed and digital books. Thank You!
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March 2, 2015
I am still not sure about the discus, but anyone who is should not be trusted (wink). As an experienced novice with this tricky fish, and well read in the genre, this book is probably one of the better places to start, especially if you plan to keep them with other fish, plants, etc. After this book, the curious reader should try "Trophy Discus" by Dick Au.
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