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Aquarium Corals : Selection, Husbandry, and Natural History
Beautiful, bizarre, and among nature's most colorful creations, living corals are now being successfully kept and grown in a rapidly growing number of home reef aquariums. Designed to help new and experienced aquarists to select the most appropriate corals for their systems and to provide guidance in keeping them healthy for the long term, this all-new book is packed with the advice of a seasoned coral keeper. More than 700 world-class full-color photographs and text reviewed by leading coral biologists and reef aquarists guide the reader through the selection and husbandry of hundreds of species including soft corals, corallimorpharians (mushroom corals), gorgonians, zoanthids, large-polyp stony corals, and small-polyp stony corals.
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464 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 1999
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March 11, 2019
Lots of good info! I’d recommend this to beginners and advanced reefers. Really nice section on coral diseases and nice trouble shooting section too. Sprinkled with handy little known facts. I never knew Cynarina were sensitive to mushrooms until I read it here. Good to know!
July 22, 2016
When I first became interested in reef keeping and began researching it, I visited a neighbor who had recently spent a lot of money setting up his first tank. I asked if there were any books he could recommend. He had purchased several but said that the information in them all was rather dated. He suggested instead that the internet was a better source for more recent and up-to-date information. And while I've since decided that the internet is also a big source of "myth-information" on the hobby, I'd have to agree that many of the books I've seen are seriously out-dated.
In a hobby where instant sharing of information has led to great improvements and advances recently, "Aquarium Corals" by Eric Borneman has perhaps been out long enough (since 2001) to have already become outdated. But instead, this book is so well written and researched that it's still the most comprehensive and helpful guide. Borneman gives pretty much everything known regarding corals and how to keep them, whether common or uncommon in aquaria, and the information is laid out in such a way that it helps the reader to understand the different aspects and theories of coral husbandry. Plus he clarifies some of the taxonomic confusion as much as possible in an area where science still has a lot of research to do, and provides tons of excellent photos. But not only is this a great encyclopedia of species information, it also covers poorly-understood basics such as water chemistry and flow, lighting, feeding, reproduction, pests, conservation, etc., and all without being out-of-date.
I imagine that advancing knowledge and methods may eventually require an updated second edition, but this book is so good that I expect it may take a while.
In a hobby where instant sharing of information has led to great improvements and advances recently, "Aquarium Corals" by Eric Borneman has perhaps been out long enough (since 2001) to have already become outdated. But instead, this book is so well written and researched that it's still the most comprehensive and helpful guide. Borneman gives pretty much everything known regarding corals and how to keep them, whether common or uncommon in aquaria, and the information is laid out in such a way that it helps the reader to understand the different aspects and theories of coral husbandry. Plus he clarifies some of the taxonomic confusion as much as possible in an area where science still has a lot of research to do, and provides tons of excellent photos. But not only is this a great encyclopedia of species information, it also covers poorly-understood basics such as water chemistry and flow, lighting, feeding, reproduction, pests, conservation, etc., and all without being out-of-date.
I imagine that advancing knowledge and methods may eventually require an updated second edition, but this book is so good that I expect it may take a while.
July 6, 2007
I love zoology texts. Borneman's a coral guru and his writing is both scientific and readable. Pretty pictures, too.
August 23, 2010
Best coral book for the reef hobies
May 1, 2016
Great listing of major genuses if hard and soft corals.
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