Baensch- Volumes, Difference?

[OohFeeshy]

Sitting in the evenings, thinking 'darn, I wish I had a good fish book to research/drool over/look for fish to beg someone to import for me' it getting a tad irritating. It seems these are amongst the best books, however, theres a squillion different volumes and no noticable differences. I want a basic sprinkling of the more basic fish, with a majority of interesting fish. Which volume is best, and can you get it much cheaper than £15.99 Buy It Now and £4.49 postage?

EDIT- Info after, mainly adult size, feeding, rough water specs, mebbe breeding... Oh, and compatability, duh.

 

[andywg]

The different volumes contain different species. The first I have and handles most of the usual fish.

I seem to recall CFC saying that the third volume is pretty good for the rarer cats and some oddballs.

But remember some of the info is incorrect, wither through age or bad translation. The first one recommends aquarium sizes by length but doesn't make a great deal of sense while doing it (suggesting a 4 foot aquarium for balas for example).

You could try Ebay to get them cheaper (and avoid hardbacks as they are always going to cost more).

HIH

Andy

 

[BigC]

Read the reviews at amazon.co.uk on the series.
http/www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1...8596249-3304409
Regards
BigC

 

[OohFeeshy]

Well, I'm not going to rely on it thouroghly, so a bit of wrong info doesn't bother me too much. Considering one of the pants books I got from the library covered lots of rarish species I like, and had a BGK as 'no listed common name', amongst other things, one of the more basic ones should cover *mostly* everything. I'll Google it, see what that says.

EDIT- I posted before I saw BigC's reply, I looked and saw someone had put Vol 1 is the more common aquarium fish, Vol 2 is rarer fish (cichlids and brackish) and Vol 3 is exotics and also more common fish. ' So I'll see if I get any more replies before I decide.

 

[Fella]

I was given all 3 for christmas and they're absolutely fantastic. Fascinating books which really go into fascinating detail on every fish you can and can't imagine.

I found the first book was great for your bread and butter fish, and as the series progresses obviously they look a bit further into more and more bizarre species. I would recommend all 3. If I had to buy just one I would probably buy the first one.

 

[Mad Duff]

It depends on how much info you want, Ive got volumes 1,2 and 3 but instead of buying the others I have purchased the Photo index which has every photo from volumes 1-5 and still gives basic info about the fish.

 

[OohFeeshy]

After consulting some of the, uh, extra wise ones on chat, I'm going for a softback edition of the photo index Pretty much the same price but covers all of em, TBH I'd rather have a wider selection and research harder than get a few fish with not much info. Plus, I can pretty much judge that somthing with 'length 40ins' ain't for me I'm getting from Aquatics Online, tis about £20 inc. postage