Product Description

This text describes the temperature, water, fertilizer and light needs of more than 300 aquarium plants. Artificial lighting - lamp types, colour temperatures and mounting - is discussed in detail and the author provides advice on choosing the right plants for an aquarium. Ecological factors, flower biology and morphology and reproduction methods receive detailed coverage. The book contains colour photographs with nearly all plants depicted with fully developed submerged foliage. Botanists as well as professional and amateur keepers should find this book useful.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #349434 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10
• Original language: German
• Binding: Hardcover
• 528 pages

About the Author
Christel Kasselmann passes on her experience from over 30 plant-collecting expeditions in the tropics. She has made several trips to the Americas to study the growing conditions of species of the genus Echinodorus, which is her specialty. Kasselmann has written over 150 articles and books about water plants and for 20 years she edited the German aquarium plant magazine Aqua Planta.

Customer Reviews

Especially recommended to dedicated aquarium hobbyists
Painstakingly translated from the original German edition, Christel Kasselmann's Aquarium Plants is a meticulous, comprehensive, and practical resource describing a wide variety of common plant species used for private aquariums. Aquarium Plants comprises an informed and informative overview of factors necessary to the proper care of such plants and detailed, one-page studies of individual plant varieties that include etymology, distribution, description, special care instructions, ecology and more of each plant variety, as well as full-color photographs that vividly portray the plants. Aquarium Plants is a reliable and excellent reference which is especially recommended to dedicated aquarium hobbyists.

would be better without missing pages problem
Warning: Some printings lack a substantial number of pages. I recently received this book and tried to look up Riccia. Unfortunately, this plant is in the index but 23 pages including the page describing Riccia were missing from the volume I received. I have not gone thorugh the entire book to see if other sets of pages are missing, but for $80+ please check.