nicely priced ID guide for sps colonies

[acropora213]

I'm looking for a book that has pix of all the most popular sps colonies for ID, that we have in our aquariums.

I cannot afford the Larger book that has been out for years, so does anyone know of something that will suffice.

Thanks

 

[MiddletonMark]

What are you looking to do?

ID to genus level? If so, I'd probably go with Borneman's Aquarium Corals book +/or Sprung's `Corals, Quick Reference' book.

To get to species-level, you're talking Veron's Corals of the World, or for Acro-specific, Wallace's `Staghorn' book. Neither cheap, neither published in the U.S. ... but if you want to ID Acropora to species [or corals in general to species - go with Veron].

If Genus is good enough - the other ones might help ... though not as detailed, complete, or with the nice photos [esp skeletal].

 

[MiddletonMark]

FWIW, please don't repeatedly start new threads with the same topic:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=813012

It doesn't help others who are searching for the same answers, and can make folks feel like their response to the first thread is being disrespected.

Generally, I will merge such threads when I find them ...

 

[acropora213]

Mark !!! Now its appeared , funny that your even the one responding to it first... Its still not in my subscribed threads