One thing we totally love about the aquarium hobby/industry is how obsessive some people can be about one small aspect of marine aquatics, and then how they can take that passion to the next level by publishing a book on…
Blanket Octopus are just one reason to pick up Ellen Prager’s new book
Who knew that there was such a thing as a blanket octopus with a self-defense mechanism unlike any other? Ellen Prager did and she wrote about the unusual blanket octopus and many other highly unusual facts about natural marine life…
Raja Ampat Through the Lens book showcases beauty, rarities of Indonesia’s reefs
An amazing new book “The Raja Ampat Through the Lens Of” not only showcases the majestic reefs of Indonesia’s Raja Ampat region but is donating all proceeds to the conservation of this spectacular area. With coral reefs under stress from…
OFI publishes a guide to standard common names for aquarium marinelife
Complaints in the marine aquarium hobby have never ceased either about the difficulty in pronouncing the scientific names or in the inconsistency in common names in the trade. At least one entity, Ornamental Fish International (OFI) has released a small…
Citizens of the Sea book is National Geographic’s Showcase of Marine Wonders
Ocean and marine life is a popular feature of coffee table books and this year NatGeo’s revisiting the theme with their new book, Citizens of the Sea. This new Citiznes of the Sea book is not just old rehashed content…
Das Korallenriff-Aquarium: the next great reef book from Fossa and Nilsen
Das Korallenriff-Aquarium is brand new reefing book brought to us by the legendary Svein Fossa and Alf Nilsen, authors of the seminal Modern Coral Reef Aquarium series. If you were reefing in the mid-nineties your reef upbringing was likely shaped…
Glass no Naka No Daishizen- the complete aquascape works of Takashi Amano now available
Glass no Naka No Daishizen is the complete works of Takashi Amano featuring over 185 aquascapes. Most of the aquascapes are classics but the new book by the godfather of modern aquarium aquascaping also features some of the master’s newest…
