5 Letter from the Editor by Courtney Tobler
6 Aquatic Notebook
• Minnesota Aquarium Society has a new model by Willie Loh
• New spiny eel from China by Friedrich Bitter
• Freshwater fishes of Uruguay by Friedrich Bitter
FEATURE ARTICLES
12 The chocolate whiptail catfishes: A popular yet controversial group of fishes by Ingo Seidel
22 A name for the crying whiptail catfish by Norman Behr
30 Magnificent whiptails: Species, ecology, maintenance, & breeding by Ingo Seidel
38 Reportage: The wealth of chromidotilapiine cave-brooders in Gabon by Anton Lamboj
46 Reportage: Little-known cichlids of the Pacific slope of Mexico by John Lyons and Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
56 Reportage: Under the leaves: an introduction to the botanical method aquarium by Calvin Darling
66 Husbandry and Breeding: Personality plus—Green Pipefish (Microphis deocata) by Gabor Horvath
76 Notes From The Field: Travels in northern New Guinea by Hans-Georg Evers
86 Conservation 1,000 Fishes: transforming freshwater fish conservation with SHOAL by Michael Edmondstone
DEPARTMENTS
90 Events Calendar
92 LFS Locator: Outstanding aquarium shops
94 Species Snapshots
97 Advertiser Index
98 Underwater Eye by Gabor Horvath
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