This book provides a beginner's guide to running a reef aquarium successfully and inexpensively. Follow the suggestions of the popular German author and expert in reef aquaria Daniel Knop. Easy to understand, yet in much detail, he describes everything, a beginner needs to know. This will make your reef aquarium an easy hobby. In this book you will find:

• what you will need to set up a successful reef aquarium
• an introduction to successful German methods of maintaining a reef aquarium
• step-by-step guide for setting up a reef aquarium
• an introduction to hardy tropical marine animals suitable for the beginner
• a guide to propagate many of these animals successfully

Thus, the book will help you to avoid set-backs, disappointments and unnecessary costs. In fascinating underwater photographs, the author carries you off to the secret world of coral reefs and in addition guides you to see and understand biological interrelationships in the reef as well as in the aquarium