Species ID

[pilsbury]

so my tank finished cycling in record time...now I am finalizing my choices on fish and corals, but I am having a trouble figuring out which fish react well with which corals, which corals react well to each other...etc. Can anyone recommend specific books for Fish and Coral ID, proper habitat for a given animal, and potential interactions between a species...I may be asking for alot, but I figure this info has got to be somewhere and I was hoping someone could reccommend good sources for this info? Any web sources out there?

Thanks,

- Chris

[MontanaRocknReefer]

Good Morning Chris!! I have a reference book for corals and it is titled: A Guide to the Selection, Care and Breeding of CORALS for the MINI-REEF AQUARIUM by Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod. Copywright 1997.
I use it all the time and contains 286 pages with color photos and great info on different types of corals. Johnny

[Brooke]

My favorite right now for fish is Scott Michael's Marine Fishes pocket guide. I would buy a seperate coral book. Maybe Julian Sprung's coral book or Eric Bornemans new coral book.

HTH-
Brooke

[Doug1]

I have access to the Baensch atlas's while they are nice for ID not much real tank compatability info, The pocket guide by Scott Micheals is on my must get list.
I have the Practical Guide to Corals and Coralsa quick reference guide by J Sprung, I nned to get Eric Bornemans new Coral husbandry book, esp since so much of the MACO class seems to revolve around it

[pilsbury]

Thanks for the info!!!I have "The Reef Aquarium" volumes 1 and two (Deelbek & Sprung), is that the "Sprung" book you were referring to? Seems the pocket guide is the proverbial bomb for fish, I'll have to pick that up.

[Doug1]

The Sprung book I was refering to is "Corals, a quick reference guide" kind of a companion to the "Practical Gude to Corals" by Borneman and Puterbaugh