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ffortsarebeingmadeeverywhere to
attract newcomers to the hobby.
Tetra Verlag GmbH has chosen a quite
different alternative to children’s aquaria
ormagazines – theprominent TVhostess
Enie van de Meiklokjes. An amusing and
not over-technical approach is needed.
Perhaps people can be attracted to the
aquarium hobby by entertaining them
with the amusing stories that Enie relates
inher bookEniesAquariengeschichten.
Becausenoteveryword ismeant seriously
as in a textbook, it also includes bizarre
creatures,whichmaybearwell-known fish
names (forexample theButlermollyor the
E
BookEniesAquariengeschichtenpublishedon01.10.2011
TVhostessEnievande
Meiklokjes isnowalsoanauthor
byEckhardGrell-Herrmann
Bücher
Bookdetails:
EniesAquariengeschichten | Enievande
Meiklokjes | ISBN978-389745-140-7 | 192
pages | 146 color photos | Softcover | 14.8
x21.0 cm | Recommendedprice14.90
Euros including 2 tickets for entry to "SEA
LIFE"worth10Euros
| Aqualoganimalbook cataloguenumber:
13366
Transvestite Cichlid), but which take on
human characteristics inEnie’s stories.
Enie has been a passionate aquarist for
many years and in the course of this time
has had some strange experiences with
her pets. Enie van deMeiklokjes has now
written up the funniest andmost bizarre
stories in a humorous and chatty fashion
for her first book, Enies Aquarien-
geschichten. The author promises a book
full ofhilariousstorieswith lotsofpictures
(including her own), aimed at all
fishkeepers like herself as well as
unqualifiedbeginners – and all without a
loadof technical jargon.
Lizards
he first two species of skinks to be
discussed here are specialized tree-
dwellers. Theywereboth formerly assigned
to thegenus
Dasia
,butnowadays the firstof
them, the EmeraldTree Skink, is assigned to
the genus
Lamprolepis
and hence has the
scientific name
L. smaragdina
. The second
species,theOliveTreeSkink,which ismoreof
abrowncolor,isthetypespeciesofthegenus
Dasia
andnamed
D.olivacea
.Bothspeciesare
atpresentbeingoccasionally imported from
T
The skinks are a very species-rich
and successful group of lizards.
Their scales lie very tight to the
body, giving them a smooth
appearance. In addition many
speciesgleam like freshlypolished
porcelain.
A suitable skink forall
eventualities
byVolker Ennenbach
Lamprolepis smaragdina,half-brownvariant
