Your First Marine Aquarium: Everything about Setting Up a Marine Aquarium, Including Conditioning, Maintenance, Selecting Fish and Invertebrates,

By John H. Tullock

Starting a marine aquarium is a fairly complex undertaking for ambitious aquarium hobbyists. Learn how to help yours flourish with details on marine aquarium maintenance and how to create the correct water chemistry and environment. This title, along with all books in the comprehensive and popular B.E.S. Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series, provides advice on feeding, health care, housing, and all other important aspects of responsible pet ownership. Each title in the series is individually written from first page to last by a pet trainer, veterinarian, or other pet-care specialist. All Complete Pet Owner's Manuals are filled with high-quality photos and instructive line art.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764136755
• ISBN13: 9780764136757
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Getting educated

Wonderful book as an "introduction" to the world of starting and maintaining a salt water aquarium. It is excellent in giving anyone who is think of starting a tank the basics of set-up and more importantly, what to expect as the tank matures. My 75 gallon tank is now 4 months old and has done great right from the start in large part due to the knowledge I gained from this book.

Excellent book

Once I started reading this book I couldn't stop until I was done. I have fairly good experience keeping a fresh water tank but I never had a marine one, or for that matter I never read anything about it. This was my first book on the subject and I found it to have all necessary information to get me familiar with what is required to start a marine tank and how involved is the process of maintaining it. The step-by-step guide on who to setup a mini-reef tank is also very helpful. I also liked the explanation of different filtration systems (Berlin, Smithsonian, Monaco).The book has more text than photos so it might appear a little bit overwhelming. But that is good because the text gives good information and is well written. Not that this book doesn't have any pictures, it does have good ones, but there are some pages that are just text.All in all I would recommend this book to anyone thinking about starting a marine aquarium. This book will tell you if that is something you can commit to or not. And if you choose to do it, this book would definitely be valuable as a reference.

Great and Simple Book

Fantastic book. It keeps things very easy and helps people like me in doing the migration from freshwater to saltwater. This is the exact book to start.

great starter book for the beginner

I thought this book was execellent. I learned alot and have set two tanks up with the directions. I have re-read a couple of times for info that I needed down the line and didn't understand at the time. Great book!

A Magnificent Little Book

John Tullock is one of the hobby's greats. Anything by him is worth buying and reading -- although let me say that this little book is fantastic. It's a concise treatment of all the major aspects of the hobby from set up to stocking and I've recommended to several fish stores that they start including this work with their "starter" set ups.