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# Sunken Gardens: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planting Freshwater Aquariums

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Review: very thorough, very many pictures, information for neophytes to experts - I have kept a aquarium since about age 12. I always wanted fish AND live plants. I used grow lights, "flourotabs" I believe. Some form of liquid iron. I managed to get a few sword type plants to survive. A pet store employee told me once that you cannot keep fish and live plants, "it just can't be done". The tanks in this book are LUSH. I read one review complaining about a CO2 generator. There are simple designs to build your own using yeast. It is counterintuitive to me to add CO2 to a tank with fish in it - it seems that they should live in equilibrium - but I believe this is the one most important thing I learned from this book. VERY thorough from where the plants originate, types of water needed, amount of light needed, sooooo many beautiful pictures. Updated as far as LED lights, so must have been written fairly recently. I won't use everything in this book, but I know that it has expanded my knowledge exponentially of how to keep a planted aquarium living and I am very excited about putting what I learned to use. Definitely buy this book if you want to grow live plants in your aquarium and can't. As the title suggests, the book focuses on plants in the aquarium, but is also addresses fish and their interaction with the plants and each other, etc.
Review: A beginners first stop. - It would be great to have this book updated, particularly lighting and CO2 systems. That said, this is probably the best of the introductions to planted aquariums. A bit light on low tech tank maintenance, it is still a very well organized and accessable book for beginners with planted tanks.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #885,776 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #26 in Water Gardens & Ponds #175 in Fish & Aquarium Care (Books) #348 in Nature Crafts |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (592) |
| Dimensions  | 8 x 0.56 x 8.75 inches |
| Edition  | Illustrated |
| ISBN-10  | 1604695927 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1604695922 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 252 pages |
| Publication date  | February 14, 2017 |
| Publisher  | Timber Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ very thorough, very many pictures, information for neophytes to experts
*by J***N on March 18, 2021*

I have kept a aquarium since about age 12. I always wanted fish AND live plants. I used grow lights, "flourotabs" I believe. Some form of liquid iron. I managed to get a few sword type plants to survive. A pet store employee told me once that you cannot keep fish and live plants, "it just can't be done". The tanks in this book are LUSH. I read one review complaining about a CO2 generator. There are simple designs to build your own using yeast. It is counterintuitive to me to add CO2 to a tank with fish in it - it seems that they should live in equilibrium - but I believe this is the one most important thing I learned from this book. VERY thorough from where the plants originate, types of water needed, amount of light needed, sooooo many beautiful pictures. Updated as far as LED lights, so must have been written fairly recently. I won't use everything in this book, but I know that it has expanded my knowledge exponentially of how to keep a planted aquarium living and I am very excited about putting what I learned to use. Definitely buy this book if you want to grow live plants in your aquarium and can't. As the title suggests, the book focuses on plants in the aquarium, but is also addresses fish and their interaction with the plants and each other, etc.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A beginners first stop.
*by D***R on January 24, 2025*

It would be great to have this book updated, particularly lighting and CO2 systems. That said, this is probably the best of the introductions to planted aquariums. A bit light on low tech tank maintenance, it is still a very well organized and accessable book for beginners with planted tanks.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book.
*by T***M on August 7, 2020*

I bought this before starting my first planted aquarium in hopes to better understand acquascaping. As an RN and having already had a solid understanding of chemistry and biology, I thought found the terminology and depth very helpful and would have welcomed more. I find myself going back to reference certain parts of the book (such as the carbonate and general hardness chapter) as my tank needs change. I think it's important for people to understand that they should be reading TO understand, not to be told what to do. Every tank is different, water is different.. everything is different! So although some parameters can be more rigid there is often room to wiggle in others. If you learn how and why something works you are then empowered to step forward independently and use books like this to help guide your decisions, which is what they should be for and this book does for me. I especially like her suggestion to learn to work with the water you have as opposed to making it be something it is not which does make things much, much easier!

## Frequently Bought Together

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