I like the increased number of useful line drawings, the updated tabular count of valid species, up to 24,618 now, and the stated maximum size of largest family members. The Introduction to Fishes chapter is great. It’s neat to note that most fishes are more closely related to mammals than to (certain) other (sic) fish […]

You will still need to monitor your water parameters regularly and perform water changes as needed. You will also need to add supplements such as iodine, calcium, strontium, magnesium and others, to the water periodically. Live rock helps maintain stability in a saltwater aquarium and it can become a food source for your invertebrates and […]

It’s this lack of color, particularly the lack of white antennae, that makes me think that fishes might not readily recognize that they are cleaners, hence their typically poor performance. Notice that the rest of the cleaners have them, except Peppermint Shrimp. Just my guess and no actual data to show…

Anyway, they are still […]

As a completely self-produced work (writing, images, graphics, lay-out) this is an admirable work of some new and important ideas in aquarium set-up and operation.

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This is an account of Steve’s personal odyssey in keeping and culturing attempts with different groups (cnidarians, sponges, ascidians) utiliz

” For the purposes of reviewing filtration methods, seeing how Steve “did it” (trials, tribulations of isolating his cryptic assemblies, keeping the light and predators off of them” this book and its series are well worth the effort for advanced reef aquarists.