salty1

The old saying, "You can't judge a book by the cover", certainly applies here. I haven't had a chance to evaluate this book yet. I am familiar with some of the contributing authors. If you judged a reefer's knowledge by the success of his/her reef aquarium then I'd have to say this book could be loaded with good advice. Each of the co-authors placed a picture of their reef tank in that ad. Pretty impressive, I'd say.

A couple of things I don't like is the price, the author refers to it as, "the small price of $77.97." and other diatribe remarks indicating we'd be foolish if we didn't spend the money to buy his book. One thing to his credit, he gives a 100% 60 day guarantee. My thoughts about someone over hyping a product is, if it's that good why not let the people who buy it hype it. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising.

I think I'll wait until the price falls to meet the demand. In other words, at $77.97 few people will buy it and he will either lower the price or sit on his pile of books. That's my 2 cents worth. There's a lot of good books out there.

I, too have the books that dsfdbutterfly mentioned and they are good for beginner and advanced alike. There's another I'd mention, "Reef Invertebrates" by Calfo and Fenner.