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Tanganyika Cichlids in their natural habitat

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This book is for advanced keepers of Tanganyika cichlids. It has the better fish photographs that I ever seen. The information is about the fish behavior in the lake. If you want to know how you must keep this fishes in an aquarium, choose another book. Fantastic.

This is am outsyanding book about Lake Tanganyika and its cichlids. It is loaded with pictures and information about the all cichlids in the lake, including distribution, feeding habits, breeding behavior and evolutionary speculation. It is not specifically concerned with how to care for these cichlids in the aquarium. However, the information it provides will be invaluable to anyone who maintains these animals (or wants to), and is also very interesting in and of itself.

This book is a great book to purchase if you or the person you are buying it for are a cichlid lover! The pages are filled with tons of beautiful colored pictures and the text is not for beginners. This book does NOT discuss how to take care of these types of fish in your personal aquarium. But it does discuss the cichlid's natural habitat, diet, how they reproduce, etc. I bought this book for a cichlid enthusiast not knowing exactly what I was getting in regards of text or amount of pictures, and he loved it!

A beautiful book full of pictures and information about the Cichlids in Lake Tanganyika and the environments they live in. Very interesing, if you are interested in these cichlids, and the best book you can get in the subject.

I purchased this book in order to learn about the Cichlids in my home tank. There is some good detail on diet, habitat and breeding of the different species available commercially but most of the book is devoted to fish in the wild. I would have liked to learn more about what other fish and invertibrates share space with the Cichlids in Lake Tanganyika. Overall a very good read and a keeper for the many well printed photographs which will help me identify fish in the future. I still can't see the difference between a Compressiceps and a Calvus but someday...

Great book,buy it !
it contains all the information you will ever need regarding Tanganyikan cichlids.

If you research the web, you will quickly find this book is recommended as the 'bible' for Tropheus enthusiasts. I found there to be about 10 pages of Trpopheus content. Good stuff, but thats it. Nice pictures and interesting background on the lake itself. Good book - but not if you are interested specifically in Tropheus.

nice book for people to enjoy fish. chilid good looking for some information.