Detail:  This book is the definitive work on the fishes in Lake Tanganyika with information about how they live and breed in the Lake; how they live and breed in an aquarium; how to keep them healthy; how to identify them; and many,many more subjects that wil enlighten the most sophisticated hobbyist as well as entertain those readers just interested in fishes.

Dr Herbert R. Axelrod, who fished and visited with Brichard many times, says: "Brichard's fish farm and laboratory are exemplary. Brichard knows that there is always a problem with capturing too many of a species, so he breeds the more rare forms. No one in the whole world, neither fish collector nor scientist, knows more about the fishes of Lank Tanganyika than Pierre Brichard. As I editied this book, I learned more about African cichlids than from all the other books on the subject combined.