This is a review that I’ve wanted to do since the last meeting of the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA XV), in Louisville, Kentucky. At that conference Morgan Lidster of Inland Aquatics made a very important presentation titled, “Cultured Marine Ornamentals, 2003.”…
The Marine Ornamentals Conference 2004 (MOC 2004), with its themes of Collection, Culture and Conservation was held in Honolulu from March 1 to March 4. It was held jointly with the much larger meeting of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS).…
We are fortunate to have two new books, both excellent, with very different approaches to a common goal – providing the information you need to achieve success in creating and maintaining biologically thriving and aesthetically beautiful marine aquariums.…
Living here in Hawaii, an important collection area for a number of popular aquarium species, has sensitized me to a major downside of our desire to maintain and observe the beautiful and fascinating creatures of the tropical reefs in glass boxes in our homes.…
This volume contains 240 pages that are profusely illustrated with more than 500 excellent color photographs, graphs and line drawings. There is also a bibliography and list of suggested readings, and an index.…
Alf Nilsen and Svein Fossa continue their important contributions to the field of aquarium science with the fourth volume of what these highly expert and experienced aquarists intend as a five-volume “encyclopedia.”…
I have two aquarium books on very different topics for this issue.
To introduce the first, a book by Anthony Calfo on coral propagation techniques, I’ll open a recent communication from the U.…
Underwater photographer/journalists Denise and Larry Tackett have put their extensive diving experience in the beautiful and diverse reefs and lagoons of Indonesia, Beau, New Guinea, the Maldives and Seychelles for more than 10 years, to create a book that fills a vacuum in the literature of importance to marine aquarists.…