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Corals: A Quick Reference Guide (Oceanographic Series) (Oceanographic Series)
written by Julian Sprung
Studio : Ricordea Publishing
by Ricordea Publishing
Brand : Two Little Fishies
Publisher : Ricordea Publishing
Released : 1999-09
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781883693091
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 18 reviews)
List Price : $34.95
Our Price : $21.91
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Tlf Corals Reference Guide
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CORALS REFERENCE GUIDE - JULIAN SPRUNG |
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Corals: A quick reference guide |
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This book has a bunch of good information concerning Coral growth and selection in the home aquarium. Great book. |
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Quick reference |
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This is a great book to have to reference houndreds of corals in a glance. Lets you know there light, water flow, and just about everything you should know before you get your new edition. |
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A Really Handy Book |
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This is a really good book for identifying coral, determining requirements, and deciding what the odds of your success with the coral will be. I find it more and more important to only purchase coral that stands a chance in my tank, and this book helps me do that. |
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Good pictures |
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This book has very good pictures but very little written information about each. |
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Beautiful pictures, but incomplete text |
This book is full of fantastic full-color pictures with which one can easily identify many of the corals commonly available. Also includes many rare corals.
However, the text material about the corals, care etc. is extremely brief - much too brief. General care and lighting needs for a particulate coral species is given in the form of bar graphs and placement diagrams. This could theoretically be a helpful companion and summary of a more extensive text about the coral species being described. However, in this book, these diagrams are a *replacement* for the text. In and of themselves, the diagrams are inadequate to properly gauge the needs of the coral species.
I was also disappointed that the book completely leaves out many commonly available corals (for example the corallimorphs ("Mushroom corals"), which are common beginners corals). Leaving these corals out while including many rare species which the average hobbyist will never see seems to dilute the usefulness of the book.
I would recommend instead Borneman's "Aquarium Corals" (which I have and refer to constantly), and/or perhaps Sprung and Delbeek's more extensive 3-volume "The Reef Aquarium" (which has received good reviews, but I don't own (yet)). |
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