Beautiful, bizarre and amongst nature's most colourful creations, living corals are now being successfully kept and grown in tens of thousands of home saltwater aquariums.
For the first time, master aquarist Eric Borneman offers an authoritative, comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to appropriate aquarium species, including a diversity of soft corals, as well as popular and rare large-polyp and small-polyp stony corals. More than 700 world-class photographs.
Contents
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: Aquarium Corals
 Selection, husbandry and natural history
• Chapter 1
 Reef Worlds & Beauty, biodiversity and scientific wonders of the coral realm
• Chapter 2
 Anatomy lessons & Polyps that rule ¬ and build ¬ the reefs
• Chapter 3
 Zooxanthellae & The symbiotic algae of corals
• Chapter 4
 Foods & Feeding & Nutrition on the reef and in the aquarium
• Chapter 5
 Secret Lives & Competition and reproduction
• Chapter 6
 Taxonomy & Coral classification and its limitations
• Chapter 7
 The corals & Families, genera and species of special interest to aquarists
• Chapter 8
 Husbandry & Captive reef-keeping approaches and essentials
• Chapter 9
 Water chemistry & Parameters to know and maintain for success with corals
• Chapter 10
 Care & Handling ¬ Selecting, acclimating and siting corals in the reef aquarium
• Chapter 11
 Coral health & Recognising, preventing and treating diseases, worrisome conditions and pests
• Chapter 12
 Conservation & Endangered reefs and the ethical coral keeper
