On 28 May 2009, during the opening ceremony of Aquarama 2009, OFI honored Ulrich Glaser sr. with the OFI Award 2009.
The OFI award was launched in 2005 in Singapore to honor individuals, companies and organizations who and that have made significant contributions to our industry over the last several years.
Mr. Glaser has been active in the aquarium industry since the early 1970’s, lately in his publishing house Aqualog Verlag GmbH. During his years as a retailer and as an importer he found out that of many species imported there was hardly any information available or only scattered in numerous publications in aquarium magazines and scientific literature.
The first book of our laureate, All L-numbers, filled a great gap in knowledge of a very popular fish group. For the first time the numerous loricariid catfish were catalogued and pictured, many of which un-described at that time. In this way Mr.Glaser greatly contributed to the proper husbandry of not only the L number catfish, but later to many other common and rare fish in our industry. His database with information on how water quality criteria, food, tank size, behavior and much more, counts many thousands of fish species, fish varieties, plant species and other aquatic animals, carefully maintained over the years by Mr. Glaser himself
Unfortunately Mr. Glaser was not able to come to Singapore to receive the OFI Award. This is why we will present him the OFI Award 2009 in person at Interzoo 2010.
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Unfortunately Mr. Glaser was not able to come to Singapore to receive the OFI Award. This is why we will present him the OFI Award 2009 in person at Interzoo 2010.
More information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or www.ofish.org.