Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 597.72
EAN: 9780730983927
ISBN: 0730983927
Label: Western Australian Museum
Manufacturer: Western Australian Museum
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 1997-12
Publisher: Western Australian Museum
Sales Rank: 1518830
Studio: Western Australian Museum
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Rating:  - This book is a MUST HAVE for your aquarium library!
If you are at all interested in sea anemones and anemone fishes (clownfishes) then this book is THE definitive book on anemone and clownfish identification. Dr. Fautin and Dr. Allen make a point in saying that this book is NOT primarily about the captive care of anemones or anemone fishes (though there is a small section about their basic care needs; however, they say to look elsewhere for more detailed aquarium care) but rather, it is about the identification, distribution, biology of the ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't buy this book to learn how to keep Anemones
While this book provides good reference material for identifying anemone fish & sea anemones it provides *no* useful material about how to keep clownfish or anemones alive and healthy in a reef tank.
If your looking for a ref. book for identification of the creatures this book is fine. I was looking for a good reference on how to keep anemones, and this book was of no help whatever in that regard.
Rating: - Buy this book
Daphne Fautin and Gerald Allen have created the definitive reference for clowfishes and host anemones, at least from the standpoint of the marine aquarist.
Although the text of the first edition of this book is online, it lacks many of the pictures and the identification charts. The physical book is well worth the money.
The aquarist interested in keeping clownfishes and anemones should also have Joyce Wilkerson's book, Clownfishes, and John Tullock's book, The Natural Reef ... Read More
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