Best coral reference text?

[oncorhynchus]

Looking for something up to date with good descriptions and lots of full color photos. What do people like?

[uwwmatt]

I have this book and like it.

http://www.amazon.com/Aquarium-Corals-Sele...8208&sr=8-1

 

Product Description

Beautiful, bizarre, and among nature's most colorful creations, living corals are now being successfully kept and grown in a rapidly growing number of home reef aquariums. Designed to help new and experienced aquarists to select the most appropriate corals for their systems and to provide guidance in keeping them healthy for the long term, this all-new book is packed with the advice of a seasoned coral keeper. More than 700 world-class full-color photographs and text reviewed by leading coral biologists and reef aquarists guide the reader through the selection and husbandry of hundreds of species including soft corals, corallimorpharians (mushroom corals), gorgonians, zoanthids, large-polyp stony corals, and small-polyp stony corals.

 

This is a good one too.

http://www.amazon.com/Corals-Quick-Referen...ader_1883693098

[paneubert]

I have....

 

"Corals: A Quick Reference Guide" by Julian Sprung.

 

and.....

 

"A PocketExpert Guide to Marine Invertebrates: 500+ Essential-to-Know Aquarium Species" by Dr. Ronald L. Shimek.

[Sac_State]

Aquarium Corals: Selection, Husbandry, and Natural History

Eric H. Borneman