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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 No one has reviewed this yet?!? Nov 18, 2008
By Breck Breckenridge
Well, I must say at the outset that this is a book I currently have on loan from my Spokane library. I discovered no one has reviewed it here on Amazon when I came here looking to buy it and wanting to know what others thought about it! I have not seen alot of aquarium plant books yet, certainly not Hiscock's, which seem to be strongly represented here. Mary Sweeney's book is a little "pocketbook" type (called a turtle?). It is only 11 cm wide by 20 cm long. Very "handy".
As for the contents, I can say two things right off the bat: 1) the text is good to a point but has some problems (see below); 2) the photos are sometimes good and sometimes not so good.
Concerning the text, the plant species are not arranged alphabetically, but rather by some grouping which I have not yet fathomed. This means I have to continually be going back to the index for page numbers of certain species. Granted the editors have given us a "cheat sheet" of genus names and their pages on both insides of front and back covers, but still... Also, the treatments for each species are not equally thorough. We get complete descriptions, etc. for some species in a genus but then the rest get short shrift. Those that get the short comments often do not have their sizes mentioned. This is irritating. I want to at least know how big each plant will get. Granted this is 101 Best so I should be content with that, but I already want more and it is not there.
With regard to the photos, sometimes they are really quite good. Then there are those that aren't. The disparity is sometimes very great. On the whole I would say the photos are good about 80% of the time. Admittedly it must be a b*tch trying to take photos of plants in water!
This book is copyrighted 2008, so it is up-to-date. Its newness may be one reason why the used ones are still commanding new prices, more or less. I was hoping to find a copy cheaply :-) because this will not be my only aquarium plants book. I just started in my interest in having an aquarium that is strongly oriented to plants (I am afterall a botanist), so the fact that I am already having to look in this book and in Barron's Plants for the Aquarium, and am already contemplating getting Hiscock says something about the level "101" is written on.
So I give it a three rating.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 This beginner finds it very helpful Feb 24, 2009
By NatCh
I've kept aquariums before with moderate success, but I'm setting up a new one after a 13 years hiatus (during which I moved around a lot) and I've never kept live plants before.
I was looking for a good, basic reference that would help me decide which plants might be good for what I have planned and which wouldn't. The factors I'm following are height, growth rate, lighting needs, and supplementation (C02, fertilizer and such) requirements, as well as the usual things you'd pay attention to with the fish themselves -- temperature, PH, water hardness, etc.
With only 101 species claimed, it's not going to be, by any means, an exhaustive look at the aquatic plant world, but I found very few species listed for sale on various websites (including e-bay) that weren't covered in this book. This is particularly valuable to me because those sites often list very little in the way of the details I was looking for, and with things like e-bay, you have to wonder how accurate whatever details are there actually are.
The only real drawback to it, from my perspective, is that when it groups several varieties of the same plant, it doesn't always include size differences in the smaller blurbs, and I'm suspicious that those sizes do vary.
Overall, I'm quite pleased with it in the role of a basic, beginner's reference.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Quick Guide to Plants Jan 06, 2011
By Surveyor
"Book reader"
This is a good book to have with you when you go to the store to shop for plants. Packaged and designed like a "field guide" it will fit easily into a coat pocket or purse and is well organized to quickly find teh species you may be looking at in the store.
Obviously, it is somewhat limited to 101 (or so) plants, but really covers those plants well, even admitting some of them are harder to care for than others!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Good reference Jul 01, 2011
By R. Roesler
"TropicBob"
My son and I are very into planted aquariums and have several books. This is not the best but I believe it ranks near the top. The low cost makes it a good deal. It does lack info on some popular/common plants.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Quite Informative - Good Book!! Apr 14, 2011
By T. Vanover
"Perpet Student"
I too have had a short hiatus from having a fish tank with marginal success with aquatic plants and was seeking plant help. After reading some of the other reviews - I both agree and disagree with parts of the reviews. This book has lived up to and exceeded my expectations. After years of working with formal plant identification (dichotomous keys) books I find this reference material very informative and useable.
I found the following POSITIVE attributes of this book:
- the three different ways of accessing an entry in the book great, user friendly and very 'fathomable'! The plants are sorted by its common name and then by scientific name. For those of who prefer scientific names you'll see that the binomial is noted first, then the common name second.
- plants are also sorted by plant placement in a tank, foreground, midground/small, and background/large plants. The pages within those sections are easily flagged/color coded with light type (bright/medium/low)and then durability (hardy/easy/challenging).
- photographs - The pictures are 'great'. Each plant referenced has a photograph. Photographic technology has come a long way since then, but overall I'm very very pleased with the clear and crisp pictures. I've spent more on other plant books with lower quality of images and paper.
- recommendation of what species to STAY AWAY from is very helpful - We don't want to have one plant monopolize one's tank.
- a variety of essential information - It provides an overview, habitat, native range, maximum height, lighting, water and nutrient preferences. She also notes any important special care, propagation and misc notes an aquatic keeper should be aware of.
- the mention of fish and/or substrate appropriate for a plant
I found the following NEGATIVE attribute of this book:
- its less than 200 pages
I will look for more books by this author.
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