This excellent hard copy book on arowanas was launched on the 28th May 2005 during the bi-annual Aquarama show in Singapore where a wide assortment of companies from as far reaching places like the United States and Peru to Holland, Sri Lanka and Japan strut and promote their wares in the world's largest fair dedicated solely to the aquarium hobby!! It was an excellent show and more than 230 exhibitors from 25 countries took part in this years show.
I know the local Singapore entrepreneurs who took the initiative to come up with this book but to be frank, I did not know that it was going to be this good! I was blown away by it when I finally got a copy! The photo quality in this book is simply stunning! This book truly captures the beauty of the arowana... This is not a 50 page book BUT A MORE THAN 320 PAGES full of excellent material and photos of arowana in breeding farms and hobbyist's homes. (Did I also mention that it weighs more than 2.5kg?!?!) I have been searching high and low for a CURRENT ENGLISH book dedicated solely to Arowanas and this is definitely the best I've come across!! By CURRENT I mean that most of the arowana books out there are at least 5 years old or more.... Today, the materials on arowanas in the market are very limited and I am glad that somebody out there has taken the initiative to help bridge this information gap. My two good friends Derek Goh (click on the 'About the Publisher' link above for a short writeup on him) and Phee Soon took up this challenge and I think it was definitely a job well done!
What is so great about this book anyway? Well.. let me summarize the reasons for you below.....
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It is so hard to get good material on arowanas!! I have been searching extensively for one, YES! all I wanted was just ONE GOOD CURRENT BOOK ON AROWANAS in ENGLISH but there just isn't one out there!!!! Yes there are quite a bit of material in Mandarin and Japanese but English... fat hopes man! Ok.. the only flaw in this whole book is that the command of English could be better but let me tell you... the quality of the pictures and the arowana information that you get out of this book more than make up for that! This I assure you! - Excellent closeup pictures that will take your breath away! - There are in-depth descriptions of the different types of Asian Arowanas and the close up pictures are just out of this world!
Learn who the arowana experts and farm owners are! - This book gives you a perspective of who the arowana breeders in Singapore ARE. Hear their stories.......
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Learn who the arowana hobbyist are! - A section is dedicated to these individuals who are truly passionate about their arowanas. Are they fanatics? I leave it to you to decide? :-) Read the interviews they gladly gave and let them proudly showcase their arowanas to you in full colour. -
Know how the arowana farm owners breed and harvest the fries - Enjoy the breath taking pictures of how the breeders harvest the fries from the male arowana's mouth. The footage is just incredible... One example is shown below....
The book will speak for itself once you get it. This 324 pages hard covered copy titled 'Awakening of the dragon - the king comes again..' will be the best arowana book you can find on this planet. Believe me, I have searched every where for a good arowana book but none of them even comes close to the quality of information and pictures that are in this book!!
This is truly the book that you must have as a arowana lover like me. I still look at it every other day just to appreciate this majestic animal.
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