Books Recommendation…

[kennyreef]

If you where to recommend a book to someone, with/without experience to have what would it be.

I don’t do much book reading for the hobby cause the info is updated regularly online rather than book, but being a book worm I will like to have a small Reefing Library and will love to here your favorites?

 

[PeterC99]

Really believe you are much better reading this site instead of a book. A book is by one author. R2R gives you the practical, real world experience of hundreds of reefers. Many experts on R2R that are happy to help with specific questions and problems.

Good luck with your reefing experience.

 

[kennyreef]

Really believe you are much better reading this site instead of a book. A book is by one author. R2R gives you the practical, real world experience of hundreds of reefers. Many experts on R2R that are happy to help with specific questions and problems.

Good luck with your reefing experience.

Ok let me explain again. I’m not looking for book as reference. If you read the post I’m looking for that book that you had and loved so I can take a look a make a library for the sake of having the book. Cause if you read… my information I get it online cause is updated faster online than on book.
Hopefully someone in R2R will read and understand the meaning of collective book

 

[PeterC99]

Ok let me explain again. I’m not looking for book as reference. If you read the post I’m looking for that book that you had and loved so I can take a look a make a library for the sake of having the book. Cause if you read… my information I get it online cause is updated faster online than on book.
Hopefully someone in R2R will read and understand the meaning of collective book

The aquarium book market has tanked, pardon the pun.
I don’t think a major book has been published in the past five years. TFH publications has no books forthcoming. My own fish disease book is sitting unpublished.
Your best information resource is likely right where you are now....
Jay

 

[atomos]

Here are a few classics that I wish I didn't loan out----

• The Marine Aquarium Reference: Systems and Invertebrates by Martin A. Moe Jr.
• Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes
• The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates by Julian Sprung and Charles Delbeek Vol 1
• The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates by Julian Sprung and Charles Delbeek Vol 2

 

[kennyreef]

Here are a few classics that I wish I didn't loan out----

• The Marine Aquarium Reference: Systems and Invertebrates by Martin A. Moe Jr.
• Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes
• The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates by Julian Sprung and Charles Delbeek Vol 1
• The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates by Julian Sprung and Charles Delbeek Vol 2

Thanks Inhave the last two but will take a look at the first two!

 

[kennyreef]

And still you don’t get why Inwant the book. But Happy Reefing & GN

 

[nereefpat]

'The Conscientious Marine Aquarist'
Any or all of Scott W. Michael's 'Reef Fishes' series
John Randall's 'Surgeonfishes of the World'
Kuiter's 'Fairy and Rainbow Wrasses' book
Eric Borneman's 'Aquarium Corals'

 

[Timfish]

I feel some books on reefs are essential reads as they are researched and list the papers used by the authors and the authors claims can be verified. With this in mind here's some of my reccomendations.

"Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas" by Forest Rohwer (kindle ~$10, paperback ~$17) Best introduction to the conflicting roles of the various types of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in reef ecosystems.

"The Reef Aquarium" Vol 1, 2 and 3 by Charles Delbeek and Julian Sprung. Much of Vol 3 is updated stuff from Vol 1 but I still find myself going back to all three volumes every year.

"Elemental Cycling on Tropical Reefs" By Jasper de Goeij. This is de Goiej's work that stunned the sponge community showing some marine sponges are critical for recycling DOC in marine ecosystems and can have incredibly fast mitosis rates but don't grow (cellular reproduction rates of as little as 8 hours).

 

[Erik Bloohm]

Here are a few classics that I wish I didn't loan out----

• The Marine Aquarium Reference: Systems and Invertebrates by Martin A. Moe Jr.
• Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes
• The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates by Julian Sprung and Charles Delbeek Vol 1
• The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates by Julian Sprung and Charles Delbeek Vol 2

+++ for The Marine Aquarium Reference by Moe. There is more info packed in that book than you're likely to find in one place anywhere else. LED lighting and so many other things just weren't a "thing" when he wrote that. But his in depth discussion of the biology, chemistry, and physics of a marine aquarium are still relevant and applicable to today's technology (the corals and fish haven't changed )

 

[GwendolynChave]

It's awesome that you're looking to start your own reefing library.

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

I have about a dozen or more fish books and I would recommend online searches, just make sure to cross reference, as everything you read isn't always true. Forums like this are a better option in my opinion.

 

[FyrruPuff]

If I had to recommend just one book, I'd say go for "The Reef Aquarium" by Julian Sprung and J.C. Delbeek.

 

[Pvtgloss]

I'm thankful for The Marine Aquarium Reference: Systems and Invertebrates by Martin A. Moe Jr.

 

[Pvtgloss]

I'm thankful for Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes

 

[Pvtgloss]

I'm thankful for The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates by Julian Sprung and Charles Delbeek Vol 1

 

[Pvtgloss]

I'm thankful for The Reef Aquarium: A Comprehensive Guide to the Identification and Care of Tropical Marine Invertebrates by Julian Sprung and Charles Delbeek Vol 2

 

[Pvtgloss]

I'm thankful for Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder

 

[Pvtgloss]

I'm thankful for Reef Invertebrates: An Essential Guide to Selection, Care and Compatibility - by Anthony Calfo

 

[Pvtgloss]

I'm thankful for Clownfishes - by Joyce D. Wilkerson