Salt Water Book Recommendation

[Glenn]

Hello Everybody,

I want to start up a Salt Water tank and have been researching like crazy.  I was wondering what books you guys recommend to help choose livestock for a tank.  I like using the internet to do research, but nothing beats a goopd book that you can flip between species of fish etc.. to compare and help decide what to put in.


Thanks!

Glenn

[Aiglos]

Complete Encyclopedia of the Saltwater Aquarium
by Nick Dakin & Julian Sprung


http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1552978176/ref=si_1_10/701-2484326-4175561

I bought this book about a year ago at the Chapters on Princess street. Great book  I learned alot from it; it has everything from starting out your new tank, including setup, need to know things you should buy, all the way to the advanced hobbyist.  Also lots of pages on actual invertabrates and fish with nice color pictures all the way through;
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Very nice book not only for information but to flip through when your bored and want to see some nice pics.

Highly recommended; I think it was 50$ in chapters.

[yellowtang]

hi there if looking for start up books on SW
Here are some.

*The New Marine Aquarium, step by step and stocking guide*
By Michael S. Palleta.....
a very good easy to understand book.
Sold at BA's for $29.99.....
Excellent Choice.

*The Captive reef. A consise guide to reef aquarium in the
home.
By Dana Riddle...
Excellent guide with more information and more pricise information on the hobby.
$34.99 at BAs & Marine escape.


*Miniature Reef Aquarium In Your Home*
By DR C.W. Emmens.
this is a quite unique book on how to start Small reef tanks
Nanos and small set ups.
Excellent book on my opinion.
$35.99 at chapters .......and on line at coles.

Hope it helps.

[Julie]

Which is your favorite?

Julie

[yellowtang]

Hi Julie........I can honestly tell you that all three books
have the same ideas .but different contents......
as far as which one liking the most......tough call here.
I'll get back to you on that one......LOL
all excellent books in my opinion.

[rockgarden]

The two that I have worn out are:

1) Natural Reef Aquariums - John Tullock

2) Aquarium Corals - Eric Borneman

The two older books that I had at last month's auction are still available


Ron

[Sue]

This probably won't help the Glen too much as he lives in Kingston, but I thought I'd mention the OVAS library has a nice selection of marine aquarium books available for loan to members. You simply email requests to the librarian and he'll bring it to the next meeting.
List is on the main page of OVAS site:

http://ovas.ca/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=2508&page_id=50