Re: [AGA-mcm] The Optimum Aquarium

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

Thiel is from CT. At least he used to be. I never met
him though I grew up in the Norwalk Aquarium SOciety
with Lee Finley and others. Thiel was very well known
in the 1980's and early 1990s for his salt water
books. 

He was pre-Julian Sprung and Martin Moe. When I was
really into salt water from 1985-1993 I read a lot of
his books. I lways prferred Martin Moe's stuff and
Thiel had a tendency to self-promote.

Anyways, back on topic, I agree with Karen that the
Optimum Aquarium would be worth redoing for
archival/historical purposes but that is about it. 

It was the first book I read when I got into the
planted tank thing but I am not sure that it has
enough current relevance to warrant a reprint. It does
however, have a place in the history of our hobby as
the first (IMO) advanced planted tank book based on
some scientific principles.

Regards,
Larry



--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:

> Albert Thiel is an American, and still around.  He
> used to post once in a 
> while on the old C'serve FishNet plant forum.  He
> was also big into Discus.
> 
> Karen
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cheryl Rogers"
> <cheryl@rightstuffwebsites.com>
> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 5:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] The Optimum Aquarium
> 
> 
> > Erik Olson wrote:
> >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
> >>
> >>> Welllllll..... they probably wouldn't sell us
> the rights under those 
> >>> conditions.
> >>>
> >>> Besides, how hard do we want to work on this?
> >>>
> >>> Did you know that I have never read it?
> >>
> >>
> >> I'd be happy to lend you my copy.
> >
> > Thanks, that's nice of you.
> >
> > You know how Amano's work sometimes
> >> has a tendency to become a commercial for ADA
> products?  The whole 
> >> freaking book is that way with The Optimum
> Aquarium.
> >
> > Yeah, I figured. But I still see it being
> recommended as a good source of 
> > basic information. Folks say you can sometimes
> find it on ebay. I wondered 
> > whether there woud be a market for a reprint. And
> whether being the only 
> > English source for this book could vaguely be
> considered a service to the 
> > hobby.
> >
> >>
> >> The other thing I remember is that the English
> Translation (Albert Thiel) 
> >> is supposedly not very good compared to the
> original German.
> >
> > I guess we could have it re-translated. Was the
> original translator 
> > British or American? If British, then we could get
> away with "First 
> > American translation!" or whatever. But now we're
> getting spendy.
> >
> >>
> >> Cheryl, in what manner were you thinking of
> publishing it?  I don't know 
> >> how it could be done in a way that would break
> even for a book that most 
> >> would find useful mostly for historical
> reasons... unless we could scan 
> >> it and sell the text as an EBook.  Is there a way
> to print low-run books 
> >> at reasonable prices?
> >
> > Depends on what you call reasonable. But yes, I've
> seen it done. There are 
> > "print-on-demand" publishers out there.
> >
> > I'm not thinking of this as AGA's Big Money-Maker
> for 2006. But if we 
> > could project a "break-even" in five years, I'd
> say it's worth it.
> >
> > Cheryl
> > who was mostly thinking out loud and who should
> really shut up and go back 
> > to TAG before she finds herself volunteered to
> research this.
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