Andreas Tanke is 37 years old and works in the IT business.

Since his childhood he is a very interested aquarist.

In the last years he has made South American dwarf cichlids of the genus Apistogramma and loricariids of the genus Panaqolus to his speciality, with those he spends most of his free time at the moment.

Meanwhile he takes care for most of the known Panaqolus species in his tanks. Some of them he was even been able to breed for the first time.

About his experiences with these fishes he writes in articles in magazines and on his website panaqolus.at.

Andreas is member of the IG BSSW and the newly founded workgroup L numbers (AG L-Welse).

As a foretaste of the talks “Preserving L-Numbers for our hobby by breeding them. Introduction of the Workgroup “AG L-Welse”!” (together with Ingo Seidel) and “Breeding of some species of the genus Panaqolus in captivity” you can see two pictures in advance below: