Is there an accepted "book of record" for information about individual fish?

[raketemensch]

In most of my googling I'm finding info about fish from aquarium dealers -- which is helpful, but I prefer to get my info from people who don't have a vested economic interest in my purchase.

Any websites/wikis/ebooks/paper books that people are particularly fond of?

 

[Bob Loblaw]

https://www.fishbase.de/

http://www.marinespecies.org/index.php

 

[raketemensch]

Awesome, thank you!

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Fishbase

 

[ca1ore]

What kind of info are you looking for? Though a vendor, live aquaria is a pretty good source. Scott Michael reef fishes book series is excellent, though some volumes never got published.

 

[raketemensch]

What kind of info are you looking for? Though a vendor, live aquaria is a pretty good source. Scott Michael reef fishes book series is excellent, though some volumes never got published.

Mainly care and feeding info, plus aggressiveness. I’ve been using LiveAquaria quite a bit, but the classifications on “herbivore” vs “carnivore” aren’t really enough info, I don’t think.

i usually use their info to find info about a few fish, then google up some real-world experiences with them, and was just wondering if someone had written a compendium of all of this info. It would be incredibly useful.

 

[ca1ore]

I refer back to the Scott Michael series all the time. Just unfortunate, as I noted, that a few of the final volumes got written but never published (including the volume on tangs). Some of it ended up in coral magazine though. Rudy Kuiter had a series of books on fishes that may be worth hunting down. Since I have all the books (I'm old) I generally don't bother with the online resources.