[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

Well after reading that, I've sctratched Delbeek & Sprung off my "Books To Buy" list.

I would buy all of Delbeek and Sprung be for I would buy any Shimek.

couple things, the good Dr. Ron got all his education in cold water environments, specializing in bugs. so his specialty is not in tropical conditions, this being said he is good at talking other peoples research and coming to conclusions which if you read any of his articles he acknowledges all the other work he uses. this is a common thing between scientists also. If you want to look at goof ups of any side you will find one, Except the Dr. Ron one was on deep sand beds, his words caused everyone to run out and speed tones of money they didn't need to put the wonderfully deep sand bed in the tank to solve all your problems, well low and behold a year later people are starting to have unexplainable algae problems, tank crashes, ect.. that get better when you remove the sand bed.. so he sucks back and starts saying that we as a enclosed environment can only support 1/100th of the variety and amount of life needed to make a sand bed work (you think that info might have been important initially ) then there is the salt tests on baby urchins and how Bio Assy was the best, so people start switching and bam tanks are dieing. turns out bio assy paid him for doing the tests.

so if you are going to stop buying books over small differences in opinion you better do the research and see which opinions are honest mistakes and which could be market driven.

for the record I have 4 sprung books all aw some books, and Charles Delbeek is considered the mecca of salt water and this is even by people like fenner, Califo, ect..

Steve