- Recommended For - Beginner, intermediate, and advanced level saltwater aquarists.
- Description - A marine fishes and invertebrates identification and characteristics profile book that has 224 pages with full color photographs throughout.
- Price - Low to moderate range.
- Publisher - T.F.H. Publications; Co-published by Microcosm Ltd.
- ISBN #1890087556 (Hardcover; 2002)
- ISBN #1890087564 (Softcover/Paperback; 2002)
From the common, to the bizarre, to the seldom seen, to the rare and unusual, Reef Life is a simply written and formatted book that centers around the history, behavior, and identification of marine fishes and invertebrates in nature.
Exploding with vibrant colors and astonishing details, the beautiful close-up photographs in this book were taken by the authors with great patience and precision over many years of painstaking observations of the animals in their natural underwater habitats. Single images include common and scientific names and some general comments, and many are numbered with correlating anatomical named parts or other details about the animal. Photo montages with multiple animals shown are often also numbered and named by individual species.
Here are the many topics covered in this book:
- Prologue: Reef Exploration
- Chapter 1: Reef Origins
- Chapter 2: Reef Dwellers
- Chapter 3: Near-Reef Habitats
- Chapter 4: Living Together
- Chapter 5: Feeding Time
- Chapter 6: Protection & Defense
- Chapter 7: Masquerade
- Chapter 8: Reproduction
- Epilogue: Disappearing Reefs
Reef Life - Natural History and Behaviors of Marine Fishes and Invertebrates not only contains information on common species, but profiles many uncommon, rare and unsual species not often seen in nature, or fish stores. This is a good book for any saltwater aquarist to have to help identify and learn about the characteristics of these types of animals, as well as learn about reef life in general.
