Your First Marine Aquarium | Complete Owner’s Manual
Your First Marine Aquarium (Complete Owner’s Manual)
By Barron’s Publishing, Your First Marine Aquarium, a complete pet owners manual, is a great place to start when it comes to buying a book on marine fish and care.
- Starting a marine aquarium can be complex for those new to the aquarium hobby. This book discusses many aspects of marine aquarium maintenance and presents easy to understand instructions on how to create the correct water chemistry and environment in which saltwater fish can flourish.
- This book is a flagship title in the Barron’s line of Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals.
It’s heavily illustrated, with above average quality color photographs along with instructive line art. It has excellent general information about the feeding and health-care of marine aquarium fishes, and is great for this ridiculously low price.
List Price: $ 8.99
Price: $ 4.97
Excellent 1st Marine Aquarium Book for the beginner.,
This is a great first book for someone interested in starting a marine aquarium (or mini-reef). It’s also a great book for the experienced marine aquarist to have around to loan out. At this price you can have a couple on hand to loan to people who ask how to get started.
The book is easy to read, concise, and covers most areas of the hobby with ‘Tried & True’ methods. It has great photographs and illustrations to support the text. There are several tables making it easy for the beginner to understand and choose the correct information. It would have been nice to see a paragraph or two covering some of the more advanced ideas currently being tried in the hobby such as Live Sand filtration and plenums as a reference.
Whatever facet of the hobby you enjoy, this book is a good starter. Experienced hobbists may disagree with J. Tullocks stocking, metodology, etc. but they need to remember this book is aimed at beginners not the Bleeding Edge. The methods employed are pretty much the Proven ‘State of the Art’ for beginners to start their first marine aquarium.
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|great starter book for the beginner,
I thought this book was execellent. I learned alot and have set two tanks up with the directions. I have re-read a couple of times for info that I needed down the line and didn’t understand at the time. Great book!
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|Very good beginner’s guide,
Strengths: Good beginners’ guide, including a 30 gallon tank setup, start-to-finish. Reasonable “fish compatibility” guide.
Weaknesses: Brief; the description of fishes/invertebrates for stocking your tank is pretty short. The salinity calculation is more complex than it needs to be, and lighting advice is dated.
John Tullock advocates a setup with lots of live rock, and with a protein skimmer. This is the preferred saltwater setup nowadays, as it sets up a mini-environment for your fish. He closes the book with a walk-through of a 30 gallon “mini-reef” setup, including curing live rock yourself (if you don’t live where a local fish store stocks pre-cured live rock), which also includes fish recommendations.
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