The Successful Reef Aquarium: Basics of German Reefkeeping [Hardcover]

Daniel Knop (Author), Horst Kaiser (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1999

This book provides a beginner's guide to running a reef aquarium successfully and inexpensively. Follow the suggestions of the popular German author and expert in reef aquaria Daniel Knop. Easy to understand, yet in much detail, he describes everything, a beginner needs to know. This will make your reef aquarium an easy hobby. In this book you will find:
- what you will need to set up a successful reef aquarium
- an introduction to successful German methods of maintaining a reef aquarium
- step-by-step guide for setting up a reef aquarium
- an introduction to hardy tropical marine animals suitable for the beginner
- a guide to propagate many of these animals successfully

Thus, the book will help you to avoid set-backs, disappointments and unnecessary costs.

In fascinating underwater photographs, the author carries you off to the secret world of coral reefs and in addition guides you to see and understand biological interrelationships in the reef as well as in the aquarium.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...information and helpful "tips" are clearly the product of someone with his substantial experience and expertise... solid and factual information. -- Eric Borneman

About the Author

Daniel Knop is a German aquarist and author of the well-known book, Giant Clams. He is also the founder and owner of the Knop line of aquarium products. Daniel is the chief editor of the new German aquarist magazine Koralle and has published 12 books in 6 languages and 34 countries; four on the subject of reefkeeping. He is also a regular contributor to Aquarium Frontiers (USA), DATZ (Germany), Aquarium (Italy) and Marine Aquarist (Japan). Perhaps most importantly, Daniel has founded an association, Förderkreis Korallenriffe e.V. that collects funds from private aquarists to initiate and support research projects aiming at the development of coral farming methods that involve the native fishermen in the respective countries; today happening in Cebu, Philippines.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 197 pages
• Publisher: Dahne Verlag; 1 edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3921684471
• ISBN-13: 978-3921684474
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,649,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Basic Information, June 17, 2000

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alfredo e belen (Manila, Philippines) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Successful Reef Aquarium: Basics of German Reefkeeping (Hardcover)

Great beginners book. This book gave me very good basic information on coral identification and classification. The accompanying photos are very clear and extremely helpful. It also gives very sound advice on the types of fish and invertebrates that would complement each other in a typical tank. The section on algae has very good info on the identification, effects and control of specific problem algae. The photos of these algae are better than those on other books i've read. All in all, I believe that this is a book that would provide the beginning marine reef keeper with practical information he could use to ensure his tanks' success

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good read with a few words missing from the title, June 27, 2002

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Glen Nile (Warren, RI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Successful Reef Aquarium: Basics of German Reefkeeping (Hardcover)

The book may have been more properly titled "Inhabitants of the Successful Reef Aquarium". Though Mr. Knop does cover the basics which can give the beginning 'reefer' a good foundation to build on, it is most clearly geared toward choosing the proper inhabitants for a successful system.

Having said that, I found the book well written and enjoyable to read with lots of beautiful photos. The section on corals is by far the largest (and why not?) A later, and much smaller section covers some of the best fish for the beginning reef hobbyist.

The reason this book falls short of a 4th star (maybe we could ask Amazon to add a half-star option), is due to it's lack of specifics with regard to setup and maintenance. If the work was titled "Inhabitants of the Successful Reef Aquarium", I would have given it 4 stars.