Veronica Fowler’s comprehensive step-by-step manual shows you not only how to install your water garden, but maintain it entirely on your own. Backyard Water Gardens teaches you how to install liners, pre-formed shapes, containers, and aboveground pools and fountains. From there, it helps you choose plants, add them to your garden, fertilize, prune, divide, and ward off pests and diseases. But Fowler’s book goes far beyond the basics, covering all the maintenance and troubleshooting of water feature hardscapes—from a rip in a liner, to a damaged pool, to maintaining equipment and filter... [Read More]
Covers all aspects of keeping and caring for koi, a brightly colored freshwater fish that is suitable for most pond environments
Designed for expert puzzlers, this collection is packed with our trickiest, most mind-boggling Hidden Pictures puzzles—without picture clues! Each book contains more than 100 intricate puzzles paired with only a list of objects to find. And for true puzzle masters, 16 puzzles come with no hints at all. Just right for experienced puzzlers ready to advance to the next level of difficulty.
The Bio-Integrated Farm is a twenty-first-century manual for managing nature’s resources. This groundbreaking book brings “system farming” and permaculture to a whole new level. Author Shawn Jadrnicek presents new insights into permaculture, moving beyond the philosophical foundation to practical advanced designs based on a functional analysis. Holding his designs to a higher standard, Jadrnicek’s components serve at least seven functions (classical permaculture theory only seeks at least two functions). With every additional function a component performs, the design becomes more advan... [Read More]
What is the attraction of ponds? Why do so many homeowners choose a sitewith a pond on the property, or build their own water vista? Ponds, when properly managed, enhance a property. Ponds provide an environment for fish, recreational entertainment through swimming or boating, a satisfying wildlife habitat, and higher real estate value to any rural property. Ponds are hard work. They do not flourish on their own. The wise property-owner manages his or her pond for maximum enjoyment and pleasure. John Stephen Hicks has spent much of his private and professional life around lake or pond envi... [Read More]
The essential guide to creating your own underwater world.Sunken Gardens is packed with everything you need to plan, design, and maintain a planted freshwater aquarium. Karen Randall shares her years of expertise and makes this enchanting hobby accessible to everyone. You’ll learn everything from the biology of aquatic plants and basic aquarium chemistry to tank maintenance and troubleshooting. Plant profiles highlight the best options for a range of tank situations, and a chapter devoted to aquascaping styles provides basic design principles and inspiring examples. With hundreds of color ph... [Read More]
The Essential Book of Koi combines research from leading international authorities on koi with the captive-care techniques of experienced aquarists to yield the most up-to-date and extensive book available on the science, care, and breeding of these large ornamental fishes. This cutting-edge guide discusses topics that are imperative for sustaining a thriving family of koi, including how to create and maintain the best water quality, how different filtration systems work, the biology of koi and how to keep them in good health, and detailed information on feeding, buying, and showing. It also p... [Read More]
In Japan, breeding Koi--a colorful fish in the carp family--is an art form. This book speaks to its increased popularity in America with information on maintaining a garden pond and proper care of the fish. Heavily illustrated with vivid color photos and instructive line art, Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals show and inform pet owners regarding proper care of dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, small caged animals--virtually every creature that is kept as a pet. The books give advice on purchasing and otherwise acquiring a pet, feeding it nutritiously, keeping it in good health... [Read More]
Original, amusing, and brilliantly documented, Shake is a heartwarming collection of sixty-one beguiling dogs caught in the most candid of moments: mid-shake. This glorious, graphic volume will stop you dead in your tracks as you are presented with images of man's best friend caught in contortion: hair wild, eyes darting, ears and jowls flopping every which way.With Shake, photographer Carli Davidson proves how eager and elated we are to see our pets in new ways. The result is a one-of-a-kind book: a colorful assemblage of photographs that are simultaneously startling and endearing, consistent... [Read More]
An introduction to the world of insects, caterpillars, and butterflies including identification nformation, educational activities, and fun facts.Invites young naturalists to spot wildlife. Safety tips are provided and interesting activities are sugested. Color illustrations enhance the presentation. ―-HORN BOOKS (Tracks, Scats and Signs)
Discusses the construction of ponds, streams, and waterfalls from natural materials and preformed liners, explores the necessary pumps and tubing, and suggests appropriate plantings for a water garden
In 1979, several graduate students in the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures at Auburn University met with one of the authors (CEB) and asked him to teach a new course on water supply for aqua culture. They felt that information on climatology, hydrology, water distribution systems, pumps, and wells would be valuable to them. Most of these students were planning to work in commercial aquaculture in the United States or abroad, and they thought that such a cdurse would better prepare them to plan aquaculture projects and to communicate with engineers, contractors, and other speci... [Read More]
Ponds are quiet, shallow freshwater expanses that are home to a vast and intriguing variety of plants and animals. This attractive and information-packed coloring book — a perfect learning tool for young ecologists — provides detailed, accurate depictions of denizens of various freshwater pond environments.Carefully researched and skillfully rendered by nature artist Annika Bernhard are 45 illustrations of aspects of a beaver pond, a meadow pond, a bog pond, and other freshwater habitats. These ponds provide shelter and nourishment for a painted turtle, yellow pondlilies, white-tailed deer... [Read More]
Provides instructions and suggestions for enhancing gardens with ponds, water plants, fish and wildlife ponds, fountains, waterfalls, bridges, and islands
Make more than a million monsters with this mix-and-match crochet collection! Crocheting has never been so much fun . . . or so imaginative! With these split pages, you can choose exactly the head, arms, and feet you want to customize your own individual crazy critter. On the back of each photo you’ll find crocheting instructions, and it’s up to you to decide on the colors; to add stripes, spots, or scales; or to sew on one of the extras, like hair, eyes, horns, wings, or tails. Just work from the top down, selecting one of the 30 options for each part of the finished creature.
The Mashimizu is the answer for Pure Water. Everything that we know about what it takes to make Pure Water for a pond is included in the Mashimizu package. For good water in a pond
Wheat Germ's exceptional digestibility at low temperatures is very important since fish metabolism and the pond's ammonia reducing biological activity are greatly diminished in colder months
Aquascape Praziquantel Treatment is used to treat external and internal parasites, flukes, flatworms, and tape worms in pond fish. Praziquantel is known to be one of the safest and most effective pond medications available for
Seachem Oasis Pond Prime Fish & ; Aquatic Life Freshwater Treatment For more than 30 years, aquarium hobbyists have turned to Seachem Laboratories for products designed by chemists and biologists. A complete and concentrated conditioner
Wardley Pond Pellets, 5 lb, are designed to provide a nutritionally balanced food formulated for all pond fish. This Wardley Fish Food is offered in an economical 5 lb Barrier Lock resealable package for your
Keep your tank clean while satisfying your fish's appetite with the 17 oz container of Wardley Pond Pellets. Wardley takes care of the science so you can enjoy your fish. This pond goldfish food includes
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