by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 14, 2013 | Freshwater
Making Tropheus food at home Article and images by Norbert Knaak • AMAZONAS Web Bonus Article Probably no other topic is as controversial among aquarists as the well-being of our fishes—and especially their nutrition. As with most aspects of our hobby, there is a wide...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 5, 2013 | Freshwater, Marine
Despite the arid environment, Arava Research and Development Center in Israel produces captive-bred freshwater and marine aquarium fish, mainly for the European market. For more information – http://israel21c.org/environment/raising-nemo-in-the-desert/...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 5, 2013 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Scandinavian scientists issue Pacu Warning to male skinny dippers Summer months, often the doldrums for hard news, annually bring out shark-attack scare stories and flashbacks to hair-raising scenes in the movie JAWS, but for northern European swimmers the mid-summer...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 5, 2013 | Freshwater
Piaractus brachypomus (Cuvier, 1818) Red-Bellied Pacu (Pirapitinga, Giant Pacu, Black Pacu, Gamitana) Order: Characiformes (18 families, 270 genera, approximately 1,674 species) Family: Serrasalmidae (Pacu, Piranha, Silver Dollars) Overview: Pacus are vegetarian...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Aug 25, 2013 | Freshwater, News & Notes
TROPHEUS ISSUE AMAZONAS Magazine November/December 2013 Among the most engaging and prized of cichlids available to aquarists, the genus Tropheus currently includes eight species, some of them undescribed—but with countless local variants and color morphs—from the...
