The Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder - Softcover

Moe, Martin A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939960079 ISBN 13: 9780939960071

Publisher: Green Turtle Pubns, 1992

Synopsis

"Beginner to Breeder" is the third edition of what its publishers call the best-selling aquarium book of all time. The first draft of the Marine Aquarium Handbook was conceived in the 1970s, yet this edition is bang up to date in terms of much of its content and photography. Most aspects of captive marines are covered; from aquariums to filtration and water quality, set-up and maintenance, fish selection, health and feeding, and there is a substantial section on breeding. Live rock, live sand and algae refugiums are also featured, including many references to invertebrates and their care in the marine system. However, this is mostly about starting from scratch and doesn't t include extended fish and coral profiles as you might expect from an all-in-one marine beginner guide. Author Martin A Moe, junior, is a legend and was keeping and breeding marines when Julian Spring, who wrote the foreword, was a boy. This book is written with great authority and bags of hands-on experience, although it is an uncomplicated and easy read. Informative and educational without being patronizing, it doesn't t lecture. Instead it inspires, explaining that you can keep marines and this is how to do it. This is the book that has launched hundreds of thousands of aquarists into the marine aquarium hobby, sure handedly guiding them as the set up their first marine aquariums and moved into reef keeping and breeding. The Marine Aquarium Handbook has been highly acclaimed for providing sound advice in a clear, readable and engaging voice. Now extensively updated and expanded, with new world-class color images by Matthew L. Wittenrich and others, The Marine Aquarium Handbook covers the latest methods for setting up, stocking and maintaining a thriving saltwater tank.

About this edition

• Publisher: Green Turtle Pubns
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0939960079
• ISBN 13: 9780939960071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320