Foreword

Acknowledgements

Letters from the Authors

Introduction

Defining the Modern Marine Aquarium

Living Filters

Live Rock

Live Sand

Refugiums

Seagrasses, Caulerpa, Fishless, Nursery, Mangrove, Sponge, etc.

Alternate and Experimental Filtration Dynamics

Mud systems, Scrubbers (ATS/algal, animal, plant), RDP, ?…

Biotope Aquarium Systems and Aquascaping for Fish Health and Vigor

Caring for Marine Invertebrates

HUSBANDRY [Skimmers, Water Changes, Water Testing, QT, Stable temp (double heaters/chillers), Chemical Filtration, etc.]

HISTORY [Geographic ranges/locations of reef fishes, salinity/pH/temps around the world, NOAH data]

Selecting Your New Invertebrates

[Selecting for health, vigor, adult size, behavior]

[How are reef invertebrates collected, where from, handled/held, shipped: choosing the right animals armed with this information]

Feeding and Nutrition

Breeding Reef Invertebrates

Invertebrate Species and Family Overview:

Identification, Selection, Care and Compatibility

Hitchhikers and Oddballs: Top Ten/Twenty- Strange Brew

(‘Pods/zooplankton, barnacles, worms, forams, shrimp, crabs, snails, tunicates)

Sponges

Jellyfish

Flatworms

Mollusks

Snails, Limpets, Chitons, and more…

Sea slugs, Nudibranchs, other "shell-less snails"

Bivalves including Tridacnids

Cephalopods… octopus, squid, nautilus and cuttlefish

Worms

Crustaceans (Arthropods)

Shrimp

Lobsters

Crabs

Echinoderms

Starfish

Urchins

Cucumbers

Oddballs

Tunicates… Sea Squirts

Serving Life and the Living: wisdoms proffered on responsible aquarium keeping

Bibliography

Glossary

Contacts and Suppliers

Photo and Illustration Credits

Index

About the Authors

Bilateria (we can give the heave ho to this designator, but would like to stick with a systematic listing)

Worms/Vermiform Animals

The Flatworms, Phylum Platyhelminthes

Segmented Worms, Phylum Annelida

Bristleworms and Featherdusters, Class Polychaeta (or we're sub-dividing?)