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The Discus Book 2nd Edition: "Some of the Old Ways Are Still Always The Best"
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
This Second Edition of The Discus Book has been written and produced with updates and additional information since the first edition, written in 1989, to accommodate "some" of the questionable technology changes, regarding this species since the first edition of the Discus Book, when the Author successfully bred Wild Discus (symphysodon) in captivity, the recording of such work and events transcribed to the said printed book.
Alastair Agutter still remains one of a select few in the world today to accomplish such a feat, breeding wild symphysodon, and as a result of such endeavours by he, and other dedicated Aquarist colleagues, they managed to break a cycle and taboo that had lasted for more than 120 years, since the founding of the pastime we know as tropical fish keeping, after "The Great Exhibition" of 1851 and this being, to breed "The King of the Aquarium" in captivity.
This second edition of the book is concise and accurate, based on proven methods and techniques, to deliver the above results. The Discus, King of the Aquarium is a highly evolved species of the Cichlidae (tooth carp) Family and will challenge any Aquarist, even tank bred species. This book will not produce any quick fixes, or silver bullets to keeping symphysodon, whom are a very highly evolved sensitive species. But will provide the secrets to successfully keeping the species, if the valuable information found in this book is followed to the letter.
Natural Law teaches us to "evolve and refine" when studying quantum mechanics and natural branching, in other words stealth, efficiency and risk aversion. Such outcomes and results only ever come from following the covenant of Natural Law when one seeks "simplistic perfection" in all that we do!
CHAPTERS INSIDE THIS BOOK:
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE ALittle Background Discus and their Natural Environmentand Origin of the Species
CHAPTER TWO The Wild Discus Species
CHAPTER THREE
This Second Edition of The Discus Book has been written and produced with updates and additional information since the first edition, written in 1989, to accommodate "some" of the questionable technology changes, regarding this species since the first edition of the Discus Book, when the Author successfully bred Wild Discus (symphysodon) in captivity, the recording of such work and events transcribed to the said printed book.
Alastair Agutter still remains one of a select few in the world today to accomplish such a feat, breeding wild symphysodon, and as a result of such endeavours by he, and other dedicated Aquarist colleagues, they managed to break a cycle and taboo that had lasted for more than 120 years, since the founding of the pastime we know as tropical fish keeping, after "The Great Exhibition" of 1851 and this being, to breed "The King of the Aquarium" in captivity.
This second edition of the book is concise and accurate, based on proven methods and techniques, to deliver the above results. The Discus, King of the Aquarium is a highly evolved species of the Cichlidae (tooth carp) Family and will challenge any Aquarist, even tank bred species. This book will not produce any quick fixes, or silver bullets to keeping symphysodon, whom are a very highly evolved sensitive species. But will provide the secrets to successfully keeping the species, if the valuable information found in this book is followed to the letter.
Natural Law teaches us to "evolve and refine" when studying quantum mechanics and natural branching, in other words stealth, efficiency and risk aversion. Such outcomes and results only ever come from following the covenant of Natural Law when one seeks "simplistic perfection" in all that we do!
CHAPTERS INSIDE THIS BOOK:
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE ALittle Background Discus and their Natural Environmentand Origin of the Species
CHAPTER TWO The Wild Discus Species
CHAPTER THREE
172 pages, Paperback
First published December 21, 2013
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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