Customer Reviews

The Successful Reef Aquarium: Basics of German Reefkeeping

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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

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.