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Hiya
It's good if you are bilingual in this hobby
I have just had a look at the german web-site of Amazon and found the Koslowski book there, but it didn't get a good critique.
If you speak german, here is the link
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/3800138204/glance/028-5298458-0966133#
as most of you don't here some points which were raised:
- the photo quality is very bad in the book as most photos are too dark
- there is only minimal information about husbandry of the fish and the book is only useful to specialists (whatever that is supposed to mean)
- the book decribes each species into minute detail and covers Apistogramma, Taeniacara, Mikrogeophagus
- the pictures have no numbers or descriptions, so it is difficult to co-relate the text to the pictures
- the author keeps talking bad about his collegue Romer which apparently gets quite annoying through the book
- The book is a very detailed study of Dwarf Cichlids, but due to the above points very difficult to read. It is not recommended to beginners.
As I haven't read the book I cannot comment on the above points. If anyone has read the book, can you confirm this ?
As I can buy books in german or english, which one would you recommend ?
I currently have
"South American Dwarf Cichlids" by Hans J. Mayland & Dieter Bork
Landbuch Verlag 1997
I am still trying to learn about dwarf cichlids and would love a book where I can see the fish and can make sure I get the one I want (don't allways trust my LFS to have the right names on the tanks :roll: )
Thanks
Sabine
It's good if you are bilingual in this hobby
I have just had a look at the german web-site of Amazon and found the Koslowski book there, but it didn't get a good critique.
If you speak german, here is the link
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/3800138204/glance/028-5298458-0966133#
as most of you don't here some points which were raised:
- the photo quality is very bad in the book as most photos are too dark
- there is only minimal information about husbandry of the fish and the book is only useful to specialists (whatever that is supposed to mean)
- the book decribes each species into minute detail and covers Apistogramma, Taeniacara, Mikrogeophagus
- the pictures have no numbers or descriptions, so it is difficult to co-relate the text to the pictures
- the author keeps talking bad about his collegue Romer which apparently gets quite annoying through the book
- The book is a very detailed study of Dwarf Cichlids, but due to the above points very difficult to read. It is not recommended to beginners.
As I haven't read the book I cannot comment on the above points. If anyone has read the book, can you confirm this ?
As I can buy books in german or english, which one would you recommend ?
I currently have
"South American Dwarf Cichlids" by Hans J. Mayland & Dieter Bork
Landbuch Verlag 1997
I am still trying to learn about dwarf cichlids and would love a book where I can see the fish and can make sure I get the one I want (don't allways trust my LFS to have the right names on the tanks :roll: )
Thanks
Sabine