Kryptopterus vitreolus, the Glass Catfish, is one of several iconic aquarium fish species that could soon be banned from ownership in the state of Arizona if proposed rules are made law. The Pet Advocacy Network is pushing back.
Freshwater Articles
AMAZONAS Magazine Table of Contents September/October 2025
CURIOUS CATS
Volume 14, Number 5
Roanoke Logperch Delisted from Endangered Species List
After reviewing the best available science, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined the Roanoke logperch — a large freshwater darter — is no longer at risk of extinction and will be removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife.
VIDEO Inside Look: AMAZONAS Magazine “CURRENT AFFAIRS”
A video preview of highlights in AMAZONAS Magazine’s July/August Issue. Paid AMAZONAS Subscribers can log in with their email address and read the Digital Edition starting June 17th, 2025.
Weather Loach featured on USFWS Fish of the Week Podcast
This week’s podcast starts with researcher Wesley Gerrin recounting the 2020 discovery of some unusual, eel-like fish during a routine fish survey at a site called “Redneck Beach”, a college kid hangout described as “a cesspool of idiocracy” on Georgia’s McNutt Creek…
AMAZONAS Magazine Table of Contents July/August 2025
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Volume 14, Number 4
Tank Talk Podcast with our very own Alex Rose!
Watch or listen in as Tank Talk podcast host Jason Adams interviews Alex Rose, Associate Editor of AMAZONAS and CORAL Magazines.
Pet Advocacy Network Calls to End Tariffs on Live Tropical Fish
The Pet Advocacy Network has set up an easy system to allow individual aquarists to contact their representatives and request an end to U.S. import tariffs on live tropical fish.
Shots Fired? Tropica Aims to Improve Aquarium Plant Packaging
Details are sparse, but Tropica’s value proposition is clear. The suggestion is that the new plant clips can replace the functionality of a traditional potted aquarium plant, reducing plastic waste and eliminating the use of rockwool.
VIDEO: Oddball Anostomids, Issue Preview
Oliver Lucanus introduces a group of overlooked and misunderstood anostomids from the rocky rapids of South America in our forthcoming July/August 2025 installment of AMAZONAS Magazine.












