[DaveK]

The New Marine Aquarium by Michael S. Paletta is an excellent book on state of the art reef systems. This book covers a lot of basic general information and is an excellent book to start your reef library with.

I have to give the author a lot of credit for coming out against the use of undergravel filter systems in reef tanks, and explaining why. Too many other books, even recent ones, don't do this.

Unlike a lot of books published by TFH, this book is NOT ten pages of information and a 300 page catalog of fish. The 144 pages of the book is packed full of good information, and it's section on fish selection even tells you what fish to avoid.

The other thing I like about this book is that it's a "how to" book, and doesn't spend pages on types of SW systems that are either obsolete, or very few people use.

The only area that I felt the book didn't cover was the use of berlin type sumps, in place of trickle filters. Refugiums are not covered, but they are a subject that is really not introductory.