Detailed Fish and Aquarium Books

Everything you've ever wanted to know about invertebrates and algae for a saltwater aquarium along with information on setting up refugiums.
Reef Invertebrates Guide

The New Marine Aquarium tackles everything you need to know for successfully running your own saltwater tank. The author talks at length about the benefits of live rock as the bio-filter in a saltwater aquarium. He also talks about ways...
New Marine Aquarium

The Complete Book of the Marine Aquarium covers all the details of setting up and maintaining a marine (saltwater) aquarium. Most of the main, most important topics are covered at length.
Complete Book of the Marine Aquarium

The Encyclopedia of Exotic Tropical Fishes for Freshwater Aquariums is written by Glen Axelrod and Brian Scott. This book is huge! It has over 800 pages and weighs a couple of pounds.
Encyclopedia of Tropical Fishes

The title for this book, Manual of Fish Health, is accurate but just seems to diminish what is actually included in this excellent manual.
Manual of Fish Health

The Complete Encyclopedia of the Saltwater Aquarium by Nick Dakin is very large book, weighing about 4 pounds and consisting of 400 pages of saltwater information.
Complete Encyclopedia of the Saltwater Aquarium

Natural Reef Aquariums is geared towards those interested in starting their own saltwater reef tank. Starting a reef tank can be a very expensive ordeal and even more expensive if you don't know what you're doing.
Natural Reef Aquariums

If you've been keeping saltwater tanks for some time and have been thinking about transforming your fish only tank into a full blown reef tank, Aquarium Corals should be on your list of must reads. A saltwater fish tank can be quite expensive and a reef tank even more expensive.
Aquarium Corals

Everything you could every want or need to know regarding the current state of culturing your own plankton.
Plankton Culture Manual