Magazines

[leopard_babe]

Hello everyone,
It is your favorite leoprad_babe calling on all of you for some friendly advise. I was wondering what magazines you all might subscribe to. I have the foster and smith fish supplies. What can I subscribe to that will be helpful to me as a new hobbiest.

 

[michaeltx]

I like FAMA but it was always late or didnt show up so I canceled and buy it at the store now. LOL and pay more for it .
Mike

 

[leopard_babe]

Alright,
I will go an look for it. I am getting so excited about my tank!!! I just want to learn more and more.

 

[michaeltx]

it just keeps getting better and better as it goes LOL
Mike

 

[leopard_babe]

I will look for those too!! Thanks guys! You have been so helpful. I can't tell you how much i appreciate everybody's help. You make this a very enjoyabe hobby.

 

[moopiespoo]

Michael, thats weird your FAMA was always late, mine arives 2 or so days before its even in the bookstore.

 

[michaeltx]

yeah well I think its the post office. I have a letter mailed from Arkansas 3 times no and it keeps getting returned to the sender saying the address is not valid. so thats probably what is happen just wander what else is getting mailed and I am not getting LOL
Mike

 

[powdertoastman]

just remember Leopard_babe, take it slow with your tank or you can kill your fish, dont add fish till its done cycleing and its safe for fish.

 

[harlequinnut]

Mike, maybe the postman is an aquarist also and needs some time to read it through.

 

[calvindo]

i like playboy... good reading... heheheh jk

 

[spsfreak100]

Here are some that I'm suscribed to:

Click on image to order.

FAMA Magazine

Most of these can be found in a LFS of a Larger Book Store or Magazine shop.
Graham

 

[cindyski]

SPSfreak,
that top mag. marine fish & reef. how is it? do they have a website i can go to?
thanks
cindy

 

[spsfreak100]

Originally posted by CindySki
SPSfreak,
that top mag. marine fish & reef. how is it? do they have a website i can go to?

From my knowledge, I don't think they have a website. Their information can be suspect sometimes. On page 110, it clearly states:
"Yellow Colonial Polyps (Parazoanthus aximellae) do not house have zooxanthellae and reproduce readily in captivity." Now, per Eric Borneman, no one is collecting reef zoanthids from the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean, which happen to be non photosynthic. With that said, the Polyps that we get in the trade happen to have zooxanthellae. That's one of many mistakes in the magazine.
Graham

 

[cindyski]

SPSfreak (or anyone with an opinion )
thanks, so out of all the mags which to you recommend most for reefs?

 

[tangprincess]

If you want a magazine that is mainly for sw, anything that says "aquarium fish" is going to talk a little about sw, but a whole lot about fw and brakish and very little on reef (maybe once in a blue moon when they have it on the cover). However, all those mags that SPSFreak put on the thread are really interesting and worthy of any fish hobbyist's time. But for a mag that concentrates soley on sw and/or reef, go for a mag that says "marine fish", or "reefs". Go to your local lf or books-a-million. They've got 'em.
Hope that helps.

 

[cindyski]

thanks