Heiko Bleher Discus book 1 - IN STOCK!!

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Aquapress publications have reached Australian Shores!

Blehers Discus Volume 1 - $180 first shipment sold out, Few left

Blehers Discus Volume 2 - $180 Pre order
Aqua special publication 1 - $110 Pre order
Discus book complete - $195 Pre order - SOLD OUT
indian ocean - $75.00 Pre order - SOLD OUT

For more information on all these books visit

http://www.aquapress-bleher.it/
http://www.liquidvisions.com.au/bleher.htm

WHOLESALE ENQUIRES ARE WELCOME

We are also offering FREE shipping to all DF.com members and also ANGFA members. Heiko Bleher will be in Darwin, for the ANGFA convention June 8th-10th holding lectures and what better way to have signed copies!!

Discounts on more then one copy can also be arranged. Please PM or email for more details.

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Heiko is speaking at the ANGFA Convention in Darwin 9 and 10 June 2007. His talks about adventures in remote places looking for new aquarium species are always very interesting.

Buy one of his books then come to Darwin and ask him to sign it.


Heiko Bleher was born on October 18, 1944 in a bunker in the ruins of Frankfurt on Main. He was the fourth and last child of Ludwig Bleher and Amanda Flora Hilda Kiel. Amanda’s father Adolf Kiel was the well-known “Father of Water Plants”, a pioneer of the modern aquarium who established the world’s largest plant and ornamental fish farm in Frankfurt. In those early days his adventurous daughter Amanda travelled around the world collecting fishes and plants. She was the first woman to ride a> motor bike in Germany, and competing against men, won 148 European Moto-Cross car races, won championships in tennis, table tennis (world vice champion), European skating and ice skating, and was the first woman to fly an aircraft without an engine... Just as Amanda followed in her father’s footsteps, so Heiko followed his mother’s. At 4, he saw his first discus at an aquarium fish exhibition in the still ruined Frankfurt Zoo. Later he travelled with her to Africa then, aged 6, throughout Europe collecting plants and fishes. When he was 7, his mother took him, his elder brother and two sisters with her on his first discus hunt – a highly adventurous exploration trip deep into the “green hell” of the of South American jungle. They reached areas inhabited by unknown Indian tribes, some of whom had killed and eaten 4 missionaries shortly before. They lived with the natives for over 6 months, sampling 60 new aquatic plant species, countless fishes and many other animals. Still a child, Heiko learned to live like the Indians, eating the same food and collecting fishes and plants in the Mato Grosso, He learned about the life and behaviour of fishes, and became familiar with the amazing variety of fish that exist in unspoiled nature. He also discovered the wimpel-piranha, but no discus at that time.