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Old 23-05-2004, 11:03 PM
Tom Otvos
 
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Default Identifying Amano plants

I am quite new to planted aquaria, and recently got a copy of Takeshi
Amano's "Nature Aquarium World". As most people, I suspect, I was
quite awed by some (ok, ALL) of the images.

And yet even though I read comments about this book in advance and was
prepared to *not* find all the answers, I was still disappointed at
the limited amount of help it provided. In particular, while it gave
detailed water conditions for each tank, it left out the most
important thing: a catalog of plants!

I have been searching around trying to find some resource that
attempts to identify each plant in each tank, with no real luck. Does
anyone have any source bookmarked that they would share, or maybe
would participate in a group effort to knock off the major plant
species? I would be happy to post/host the results of such an
endeavour. I am thinking something in a Wiki format would be kind of
cool.

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I am quite new to planted aquaria, and recently got a copy of Takeshi
Amano's "Nature Aquarium World". As most people, I suspect, I was
quite awed by some (ok, ALL) of the images.

And yet even though I read comments about this book in advance and was
prepared to *not* find all the answers, I was still disappointed at
the limited amount of help it provided. In particular, while it gave
detailed water conditions for each tank, it left out the most
important thing: a catalog of plants!

I have been searching around trying to find some resource that
attempts to identify each plant in each tank, with no real luck. Does
anyone have any source bookmarked that they would share, or maybe
would participate in a group effort to knock off the major plant
species? I would be happy to post/host the results of such an
endeavour. I am thinking something in a Wiki format would be kind of
cool.


Books 2 and 3 have listings of the plant species.
But the purpose is not that of a species book, it's an aquascaper's
book, not a how to/what is it book.

The parameters given are not in line with some of the appearances of
the plants and it seemed to me that Amano is more observational and
less into testing. You can get to that level without testing with some
luck, time and work, I did as did a number of other people with good
tap water. I would not put too much into the readings given.

Regards,
Tom Barr





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