Master aquascaper Takashi Amano talks about his tallest aquascape assignment in this video at the elegant Sumida Aquarium. The huge aquarium measures 4 meters wide by 1.6 m front to back and 1.7 m deep (13 ft x 5.3 ft x 5.6 ft).
This past weekend, the Capital Cichlid Association held the second of what will be an annual convention called Aquamania 2. Check out what you missed.
“The secret of improved tropical fish breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”
Take a short dive trip down among the huge boulders of Lake Malawi to see some African cichlids in their native habitat.
A new species of freshwater sculpin from the pristine waters of the northern Rocky Mountains has been described, and its small size and droll character may make it a candidate for keeping in aquarium collections of native North American fishes.
Interesting short video about a rarely seen Cory that appears to have been selectively bred into a jet-black color form.
Don, 60, is a lifelong fish keeper who got started in the hobby at the recommendation of his ophthalmologist when he was in the third grade and recuperating from an eye injury and surgery. He started with a 15-gallon (57–L) community tank, but under his father’s influence, quickly became enamored of cichlids and their breeding behaviors.
…there are political action groups here and in Europe that would like to see an end to all forms of pet keeping, and they are supporting an anti-invasive species agenda because it is a chink in the armor that they can exploit…
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A desperate public call for help had gone out in 2013, in which the ZSL put out a world-wide appeal seeking a female mate for the famously ugly Mangarahara Cichlid, Ptychochromis insolitus, known to the ichthyologists working to save it as “Insolitus”.
