Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder Reviews
Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder
The Marine Aquarium Handbook is the top and single most bestselling saltwater aquarium book ever, with an impressive 275,000 copies since first published in the early 1980s, and launching those new to marine aquariums into the hobby.
Although out of print since 2006, this indispensable resource has now been completely updated with a new design too. This third edition that includes high quality color photo’s to help guide the reader through setting up their first marine aquarium, it then progresses to the reefkeeping and breeding of marine aquarium fishes.
The Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder is written by world expert in marine biology and pioneering fish breeder and provides sound advice in a clear, readable, and easy to understand way.
- New content exclusive to this new third edition includes:
- The recent advances in biofiltration and energy-efficient aquarium lights.
- Brand new chapters on marine foods and refugia.
- An expanded coverage of fishes and hardy invertebrate species.
- Information about those fish species best suited for breeding at home.
- Each featured fish has a species profile, behavior notes, full growth sizes, and essential feeding and husbandry advice.
The Marine Aquarium Handbook covers everything a aquarist would need to get started and be successful, including chosing your aquarium system, water chemistry, best filtration, biological filtration and live rock systems, setup and maintenance of tank and accessories, selecting fish, and identification and treatment of common diseases and how to prevent them.
The Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder, is no less valuable today, buy it now, you won’t regret it.
List Price: $ 24.95
Price: $ 15.75
Great beginners book, wonderful advice,
This book helped me setup my first marine aquarium. The advice on setup, run up and maintenance is well written and interjected with great wit every once in a while. It is packed with very useful information. The book is very close to a perfect marine starter manual. It’s only flaws lack of some graphics (such as the disease section) and in organization. That is the only reason I did not give the book a five star rating. These minor flaws are easily overlooked and overshadowed by the wealth of the book. If you are a first time marine aquarianist (as am I) this is a well-written, excellent book to start with. If you have been in the hobby for a while, it is an excellent reference.
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|The Old Testament gets an update,
Before The Reef Aquarium (the New Testament) and The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium (the European New Testament), the Marine Aquarium Handbook was the go to book, well regarded by marine aquarists. It is subtitled: From Beginner to Breeder. This is an accurate assessment as it contains all the information needed to take a person from complete novice to experienced breeder.
I bought my tank used, originally planning to keep freshwater fish. The seller encouraged me to try saltwater and threw in a copy of this book. It really opened my eyes and I quickly progressed from saltwater tank to full reef tank. Along the way a pair of fish spawned and I raised their offspring to maturity and even sold some. From there I spawned several other fishes and was really into the hobby, even going to the local coastline and collecting wild plankton. This book was the main reference for anything fish related. I did refer more to the two other series for coral and invertebrates information.
What is updated? There is information about live rock, live sand beds, and macroalgae. The fish selection section has been enhanced, especially about compatibility. He includes Scott Michael’s recommended fishes for small, medium, and large aquariums. And his marine fish breeding section has been expanded and updated significantly. He kept the undergravel filter chapter. I like this for two reasons: it is useful to have this information even if for background only and these filters are still applicable for breeding systems. The troubleshooting charts have also been kept intact (even the floating cookie) but many full color pictures have been included throughout the text. The ones in the breeding section are particularly informative and impressive. For saltwater fish, this is still the best book.
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