Beginner and advanced book list

[michaelg]

{sph: edited references to store}

Please purchase your books through the WAMAS Store (hit STORE on the main nav above) -or- follow this link to the WAMAS Store.  Every book you buy through these storefront links helps WAMAS by giving a small percentage back to the club to fund our activities in education, meetins, etc.

 

Amazon book list links:

 

Aquarium Corals- Eric Borneman

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Book of Coral Propagation- Anthony Calfo

Available through WAMAS

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Marine Invertabrates- Anthony Calfo and Bob Fenner

available through WAMAS

Great coverage on a lot of aspects overlooked in other books.

 

 

Natural Reef Aquarium- John Tullock and Martin Moe

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

The Conceincious Marine Aquarist- Robert Fenner and Christopher Turk

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

The New Marine Aquaria- Mike Palleta

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Marine Fishes- Scott Michael

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Reef Fishes- Scott Michael

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Clownfishes- Joyce Wilkerson

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

The Coral Reef Aquarium- Ron Shimek

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Sandbed Secrets- Ron Shimek

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Host Sea Anenome Secrets- Ron Shimek

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Corals: A Quick Reference Guide- Julian Sprung

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

Invertabrates: A Quick Reference Guide: Julian Sprung

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

The Reef Aquarium (Vol 2)- Julian Sprung and J. Charles Delbeek

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

The Reef Aquarium (Vol1)- J. Charles Delbeek et al.

http://www.amazon.com/exec....s=books

 

The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium (Vol 1)- Svein Fossa and Alf Jacob Neilsen

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

 

The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium (Vol 2)- Svein Fossa and Alf Jacob Neilsen

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....2403917

 

The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium (Vol 3)- Svein Fossa and Alf Jacob Neilsen

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....s=books

 

Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific- J.E. Vernon

[Sph2sail]

Over the last 2 years, I've read quite a bit from this list.  But to help the new folks, here's the order that I read them in and which ones.  No they are not such hard reads, just that info overload hits fast and it takes some time to sort it from book theory to what you want to do in a reef tank...

 

The first book I read is in Michael's list...

 

      "The Coral Reef Aquarium"- Ron Shimek

 

Then...

 

      "The Modern Coral Reef Aquarium (Vol 1)"- Svein Fossa and Alf Jacob Neilsen

 

Then I started looking at what goes IN to the tank, reading...

 

      "Clownfishes"- Joyce Wilkerson

      "Aquarium Corals"- Eric Borneman

         and most recently...

      "Marine Invertabrates"- Anthony Calfo and Bob Fenner

 

I think I got the most out of Fossa and Neilsen.  My kids all really liked Shimek's book, because it is smaller, easier and quite complete.  Then I really wanted a clownfish and had heard that these guys can get really mean and I had seen so many varieties in the wild while diving.  Wilkerson's book covers them very well.

 

Borneman's book is a bible like reference.  Everything you want to know about a coral species, it is probably in there.  Very cool book to look through and drool at what you Should have in your tank...

 

Just started perusing Calfo's book.  Just got it.

 

Enjoy the reading!

 

steve

[Sph2sail]

I must also state how important the members of WAMAS were to my setup... Reading does not turn easily into physical practice in a reef.  These books are not really a "how to" guide for plumbing, parts, pumps, etc...

 

I had lots of visits and help from members (thx, MichaelG and Reefmon in particular).

 

Club building parties help you get stuff done...

 

All this and reading too... do we get a PhD for all this effort? :D

 

s

[traveller7]

One of my favorites:

 

Aquatic Systems Engineering: Devices and How They Function

by Pedro Ramon Escobal

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec....s=books

[Diane]

Is there still a WAMAS store for BOOKS? the link above didn't work.

[Brian Ward]

This is definitely an old thread. Last post was in 2003! It looks like the links are to Amazon and most of them still work. Was there one in particular you were having trouble with? You might consider searching for the title/author shown in Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your preferred book vendor.

[GaryL]

brian in the oldern days of the web page the founding wamas founders set it up for wamas to get a percentage of book purchased through wamas but coming from amazon via the wamas store, which helped the club. i'm guess diane was wanting to help wamas get its cut?

 

any ideas on how to set that back up?

Edited March 16, 2010 by GaryL

[Brian Ward]

ahh... now I understand! I will look into this.

[Brian Ward]

OK. The "WAMAS Store" page located on www.wamas.org was not migrated to the new site. Please feel free to use the links above to purchase books and I will look into setting up another Amazon 'library' page or list that will include recommended reading.

[wvreef]

let us know when we can order thru wamas for our books so the club gets help as well

[Brian Ward]

let us know when we can order thru wamas for our books so the club gets help as well

 

We're actually going to close this account, so don't worry about it.

[jimlin]

any good reef biotope books?