Product Description

When, 15 years ago, Rainer Stawikowski, the editor-in-chief of the long established aquarium and terrarium magazine DATZ (Germany), and Arthur Werner, the owner of the well-known aquarium fish import company Transfish, invented the L-Numbers, they did not suspect how their idea would snowball. Since then, the armored catfishes of the family Loricariidae (which the L stands for) have become all the rage to an extent seen previously only in the cichlids of Lake Malawi.

Sucker mouth catfishes are given an L or LDA number if they are imported for the aquarium hobby but cannot be unequivocally assigned to any described species. Thanks to intensive collaboration with one of the largest aquarium fish import and export companies in the world, Aquarium Glaser/Germany, we are able to present here the latest L and LDA numbers.

If you have the first edition about L-Numbers (Aqualog All L-Numbers ISBN 3931702014) and all the Supplements published so far, this new book Aqualog Extra: The Latest L-Numbers, will bring you dear reader, right up to date. Paperback with over 300 color photos in 48 pages, and more space in the back of the book for future supplements. A must for every Pleco lover!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1159928 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10
• Original language: German, English
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

Customer Reviews

Unbeatable Books for the Aquarist
All of the Aqualog books are excellent value, although they are not particularly cheap. They are full to the brim with first class colour photographs and to reproduce these in a book is an expensive process. Whether they are about the beautiful L Number now coming into the aquarist trade or some other species of fish they are the most comprehensive identification books you can buy. They never become dated because as new fish become available to the aquarist trade the books are updated. There is not a lot of literature on L numbered catfish so this book is invaluable.

They do not deal with the basics of fish keeping, there are many and varied books that do that. They are in the main a fish identification encyclopaedia and not a lot more. But for those aquarists who are particularly interested in a single species they are indispensable.