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just about to buy
This is to offset the person rating this book that didn't buy it. You can't make a customer review if you are not a customer. Based on some of the better reviews I plan to buy this book and will write another review once I am a customer.
[Tuesday, December 16, 2008]
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Shaky chemistry
First sentence on Page 31: "Carbon dioxide is the end product of photosynthesis."
The above statement is WRONG; it points 180 degrees away from reality. Of course, photosynthesis consumes carbon dioxide, photosynthesis does not produce carbon dioxide. This is a glaring mistake that should have been swept away of the first edit - well before publication.
A related discussion of Carbonate Hardness (page 30) has some very fuzzy chemistry. Not wrong, but not clear, not complete, not precise ... and not easy to follow. Since carbonate buffering can be a big deal in any aquarium, a much better discussion of this topic is needed.
[Thursday, December 06, 2007]
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Great book...
...for beginners and advanced alike. This book offers basic information on a wide variety of plant and fish species. Even has a small section about mormyrids which are rarely talked about in other books. The photographs are beautiful and very detailed.
Previous poster may do well to actually take a look at the book instead of getting caught up in wording of other reviews.
Highly recommend this book to anyone interested in freshwater aquariums.
[Friday, November 30, 2007]
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