With easy-to-follow advice on designing, stocking and managing garden ponds, this guide deals with the planning and installation of the pool, and shows how to solve common problems such as green water, blanket weed and predator attacks. It also answers questions on which fish and plants to choose.
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Are you a pond keeper or a water gardener? And what is the difference between them? Is your interest mainly in fish, or do you consider plants to be the essential items in your water scheme; or indeed do you value them equally? Are you an enthusiast or a newcomer to the hobby? Into which ever category you fall, this book could certainly be the choice for you.
A Pond Owner's Handbook by John Dawes is a comprehensive publication containing many attractive colour photographs which deal with all aspects of plant care and fish keeping. It is well set out in five clear parts: pond set-up, pond fish, pond plants, pond wildlife and pond management, each section being extensively sub-divided offering vast amounts of practical advice including question and answer features.
John Dawes is internationally renowned and is an authority on fish, aquaria and outdoor fish keeping. Formerly a teacher and university lecturer, he is now a noteworthy freelance author, editor, and aquatic consultant. He has written extensively in magazines and journals all over the world, has written many books, also being involved in producing films and videos. He now lives in Southern Spain. --Susan Naylor
Written by an expert author with over 30 years' experience in the aquatic industry. The population of pet fish in the UK is in the region of 140 million: about two and a half times the human population.
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