Borneman is an aquarist and researcher and has written periodicals, books, and speaks frequently at aquarist and scientific conferences. Aquarium Corals is seen to be one of the definitive guides to coral husbandry amongst peers, scientists and hobbyists alike.
Although entitled “Aquarium” the book is far from just a guide to keeping corals in the home. It includes taxonomic identification (scientific and general) of pretty much every coral in known existence, with each species natural and captive requirements. It informs the reader on water chemistry around the world, history, conservation, diseases, breeding and propagation, feeding, light waves, how to set up a captive system from start to finish, and is full of detailed scientific information on coral make up from polyp structure to the microscopic level of zooxanthellae. If you need to know anything about corals I can pretty much guarantee the information you require will be in this book. To coincide with all this information are hundreds of high quality images capturing the essence of the reef and its individual inhabitants.
Aquarium Corals has been one of my main sources of information on corals and reef systems. Throughout my coral keeping period this book proved to be invaluable. As far as relating to my practice, it has provided me with the insight to just how complex and fragile our reefs are. It seems to me plainly obvious the huge effects climate change will have, this book points out that even the smallest fluctuations in aquarium stability will have fairly disastrous effects, let alone on a whole ocean. However the conservation chapter in this book is sparse, and doesn’t contain the information I would like to see on the effects of climate change on the reef. It does go into diseases, but doesn’t directly relate the two like other sources have, perhaps due to the date of publication and reluctance to acknowledge global warming in America.
Although entitled “Aquarium” the book is far from just a guide to keeping corals in the home. It includes taxonomic identification (scientific and general) of pretty much every coral in known existence, with each species natural and captive requirements. It informs the reader on water chemistry around the world, history, conservation, diseases, breeding and propagation, feeding, light waves, how to set up a captive system from start to finish, and is full of detailed scientific information on coral make up from polyp structure to the microscopic level of zooxanthellae. If you need to know anything about corals I can pretty much guarantee the information you require will be in this book. To coincide with all this information are hundreds of high quality images capturing the essence of the reef and its individual inhabitants.
Aquarium Corals has been one of my main sources of information on corals and reef systems. Throughout my coral keeping period this book proved to be invaluable. As far as relating to my practice, it has provided me with the insight to just how complex and fragile our reefs are. It seems to me plainly obvious the huge effects climate change will have, this book points out that even the smallest fluctuations in aquarium stability will have fairly disastrous effects, let alone on a whole ocean. However the conservation chapter in this book is sparse, and doesn’t contain the information I would like to see on the effects of climate change on the reef. It does go into diseases, but doesn’t directly relate the two like other sources have, perhaps due to the date of publication and reluctance to acknowledge global warming in America.
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