Great Reefing Books

[topmav1]

Wanted to get a couple of books about our hobby. I've heard of "Clownfishes" by Joyce Wilkerson and "Corals" by Eric Borneman. Anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[ryangrieder]

i wish i could remember who it was buy but i just saw this AMAZING book at the boltimore aquarium. i think its just called "Reef". its one of those real big books, probably a 1 1/2 tall and 1 1/2 wide. its bright blue on the cover and i think it was written reef in gold. they had none left for sale there, only a display. i looked through it for about 15 minutes. the nicest pictures ive ever seen of reef tanks and the GBR. probabaly 2-300 hundred pages. amazing. if i can find it online ill post it

 

[acrocrazy]

reef aquarium guide by scott michael is the go to for marine fishes, corals of the world is by far my favorite book collection but its alot of money

 

[18oreefer]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...?ie=UTF8&qid=1272929236&sr=8-1&condition=used

the reef aquarium $30

 

[beerfish]

The Conscientious Marine Aquarist is one of the best books you can read. Great to start and as a reference later on.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

Borneman's book is one of my favorites since it gives a lot of specific details for most of the coral species you will see in the hobby, where most of the other books have generalized info around very colorful photos and bar graphs that are all but useless if you have no idea what you are doing to begin with. As for technical aquarium information you are looking at "The Reef Aquarium" set by Sprung and Delbeek. It offers a ton of information for just about every level of the hobby and is completely accessible for anyone with even the slightest grasp of the hobby. As a side note if you ever end up at MACNA or another show where Charles Delbeek is a speaker, don't miss his lecture, he's a great speaker. I wish he taught on the east coast lol.

 

[topmav1]

Thanks. Any more suggestions??

"The Reef Aquarium" set by Sprung and Delbeek
The Conscientious Marine Aquarist
Reef Aquarium Guide by Scott Michael

 

[topmav1]

forgot...Corals by Eric Borneman

 

[prattreef]

Yup those would be the ones I'd suggest as well.

FYI the Scott Michael book is a Guide to Reef Aquarium Fishes.

 

[topmav1]

I think this list would be a good sticky...but then again if everyone read these we wouldn't have anything to post!

 

[beerfish]

if everyone read these we wouldn't have anything to post!

This is sadly true... Although we'd still have pics to post.

 

[JoJo9997]

The Conscientious Marine Aquarist is one of the best books you can read. Great to start and as a reference later on.

+1
1st read was before I even put water in my tank.
2nd read was when I was planning out what type of corals I wanted.
It is now my coffee table book

 

[jdnumis]

I have read "The Marine Reef Aquarium" by Philip Hunt and

Dr. Burgess's Mini Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes

 

[topmav1]

Great Suggestions guys. Hopefully ppl will reference the thread and read up! Including myself.