The Balanced Aquarium (For the Freshwater Aquarium)

Here are the happy and colourful little fish flitting through the verdant forests of aquarium plants, both plants and fish held in perfect balance through the marvelous workins of natural forces in your aquarium, the entire unit achieving blissful stasis as the waste products of the fish nourish the grateful plants, which in return generously contribute their bounty of life-giving oxygen for the fish in this aquatic wonderland. Forget it. As author David E.Boruchowtitz points out, there's no such thing as a perfectly balanced aquarium. The biosystems at play in even the smalled fish tank are too complex for us to ever fully understand, much less completely control. But sensible use of today's excellent aquarium equipment allowed hobbyists to create a very satisfactory artificial for balanced in the home aquarium once they know how true balances are achieved in nature. This book explains both sides of the story-the natural biosystemsas well as how to use the equipment available-in a text marked as much by its refreshing clarity as by its interesting and highly useful recommendations.