Kicking’ it old school - What’s your must have books?

[Reefing102]

So I’m looking at beginning collecting reefing/saltwater books, to have for reference as well as a conversation piece. Back when I started I couldn’t afford the books, and now they’re virtually non existent.

With that said, what books are on your must have list? The more books listed the better.

I thought I’ve asked this before but can’t find it.

 

[griss]

Here's a few to start with. Many (like The Reef Aquarium books) are pretty expensive even used.

Corals of the World - J.E.N. Veron
The Reef Aquarium (Volumes 1-3) - J. Charles Delbeek & Julian Sprung
Algae: A Problem Solver Guide - Julian Sprung
Reef Notes (Volumes 1-4) - Julian Sprung
The Marine Aquarium - Dick Mills
Marine Fishes and Invertebrates in your own Home - Dr. Cliff W. Emmens
Miniature Reed Aquarium in your Home - Dr. Cliff W. Emmens
The Marine Aquarium in Theory and Practice - Dr. Cliff W. Emmens
Aquarium Corals - Eric Borneman
A Practical Guide to Corals - Eric Borneman & Ed Puterbaugh
Advanced Reefkeeping - Albert J. Thiel
Dr. Burgess's Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes - Dr. Warren E. Burgess, Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod & Raymond E. Hunziker III
The Manual of Marine Invertebrates - Martyn Haywood & Sue Wells
Clownfishes: A Guide to Their Captive Care, Breeding & Natural History - Joyce D. Wilkerson

 

[griss]

A few more...

Tropical Marine Aquaria - Graham F. Cox
Marine Community Aquarium: How Fish and Invertebrates Live Together in the Miniature Reef Aquarium - Dr. Leon P. Zann
Marine Fish - Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod & Dr. Warren E. Burgess
The Marine Aquarium - Wolfgang Wickler
The Marine Aquarium Reference: Systems & Invertebrates - Martin A. Moe Jr.
The Coral Reef Aquarium: From Inception to Completion - Tony Vargas


And of course, you can't forget @Paul B book

 

[Reefing102]

I’ve also been told Reef Invertebrates by Anthony Calfo is good too

 

[Misled]

Mine runs similar to Georges. This is my last.

https://imgur.com/iriL0Mz

 

[Misled]

I’ve also been told Reef Invertebrates by Anthony Calfo is good too

That was written back when he had his greenhouses set up. We had a lot of fun back then.

 

[Reefing102]

Thanks! I’ll have to add more to my list

 

[OrionN]

Scott Michale’s series of Fishes.

 

[Reefing102]

Thanks!

 

[OrionN]

I got all of Scott Michael books other than the on eon Rays and Sharks since I am not interested in keeping them. I may just get them to be complete. Of all the other books I have them on shelf and have not look at them in years. They were very helpful years ago when the internet was not available and information were few and far in between. The 500+ fish handbook (S. Michael) and the invert handbook (Ron Shimek) we’re invaluble.

 

[SantaMonica]

3-vol set of Corals Of The World.

 

[kfisc]

"Dante's Inferno." As in, "abandon all hope, ye who enter here." Seriously, I'm sure a number of the titles suggested give some pretty straight talk about budget and counting on the heartache of tank losses as a standard part of the hobby.

 

[Timfish]

In addition to the above listed,

Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas - Forest Rohwer
The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium Vol 1-4 - Sven Fossa & Alf Nilsen
Breeding the Orchid Dottyback - Martin Moe
The Marine Atlas - Helmut Debelius & Hans Baensch
Coral Finder - Russel Kelly

And if you're a diver, the books by Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach

 

[griss]

In addition to the above listed,

Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas - Forest Rohwer
The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium Vol 1-4 - Sven Fossa & Alf Nilsen
Breeding the Orchid Dottyback - Martin Moe
The Marine Atlas - Helmut Debelius & Hans Baensch
Coral Finder - Russel Kelly

And if you're a diver, the books by Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach

Good additions. I had forgotten about those.

 

[shred5]

Sad part is I got rid of some really old ones when I moved. I also dumped all my Marine Fish monthly's.
I am kicking myself for throwing out some history.

 

[griss]

Sad part is I got rid of some really old ones when I moved. I also dumped all my saltwater monthly's.
I am kicking myself for throwing out some history.


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I also got rid of all my old FAMA and MFM issues when we moved houses along time ago. Like you, I regret doing that now.

 

[shred5]

I also got rid of all my old FAMA and MFM issues when we moved houses along time ago. Like you, I regret doing that now.

Yea I had a ton of Fama too.

If you look in the picture in the upper left I did save two MFM anniversary issues.

 

[Timfish]

I still got boxes of TFH, FAMA, MFM and some of Coral. I imagine most of Coral is online somewhere and Instant Ocean's SeaScope is online on thier website with an index of articles. But, yeah, there's a lot of history there that's not available online. Correction, I just doublechecked SeaScope's link and it appears to have been taken offline.

 

[shred5]

I still got boxes of TFH, FAMA, MFM and some of Coral. I imagine most of Coral is online somewhere and Instant Ocean's SeaScope is online on thier website with an index of articles. But, yeah, there's a lot of history there that's not available online. Correction, I just doublechecked SeaScope's link and it appears to have been taken offline.

Oh yea sea scopes I had them too. Forgot about that one.

Another one I had was all the Albert Thiels quarterly publications, another one with so much history. Why did I throw them away?

Coral has a online database but you have to subscribe to get them.. I still have some of them and saved some of the online ones. This magazine never really thrilled me though and i am not sure why.. Some issues are great and other soso.

Ultramarine I liked but unless digital it is kind of hard to get and I think expensive.

 

[SantaMonica]

Ron Schimick had an email-only in depth biology series that was available years ago.