The large size but normally passive nature of the Geophagus spp. remains one of their more endearing traits; they look fantastic as feature fish in a calm setting with other compatible fish. I never had a customer come back to complain about the Geophagus I had sold to them; these are fish people like!
Summer months, often the doldrums for hard news, annually bring out shark-attack scare stories and references to hair-raising scenes in the movie JAWS, but for northern European swimmers the mid-summer chill was provided by a herbivorous fish caught in the strait of Oresund between Denmark and Sweden.
Pacus are vegetarian cousins of the notorious piranhas, but, despite a superficial resemblance, are generally considered gentle and quite harmless.
Look to the next issue of AMAZONAS for a definitive look at Tropheus cichlids in the wild and in the aquariuim, with expert coverage of their natural history, their controversial taxonomy, care, feeding, and captive breeding. With dozens of glorious new images, this section includes contributions by Hans-Georg Evers, Ad Konings, Mathias Eberhardt, and Norbert Knaak.
A step-by-step method to get your own precise egg counts from fish spawns.
In Colombia’s Caqueta Province, once a hotbed of illegal drug production, land once used to grow coca is being converted into dug ponds for breeding and raising the Silver Arowana, Osteoglossum bicirrhosum.
A fascinating glimpse at a batch of prized Japanese koi worth some $2.5 million.
Bettas are kind of easy to goad into performing for the camera, and none may be easier than the “Fighter Plakats”, the short-finned betta strains bred for strength, endurance, body structure, and general ferocity; the ultimate goal being a winner in the ring.
With only a handful of reported cases annually, Haff’s Disease is a debilitating but not always fatal condition that is usually traced to the consumption of a carp-like Native American fish commonly called the Bigmouth Buffalo, Istiobus cyprinellus, or on native Louisiana wild-caught crayfish.
Watch this any you may find yourself itching to set up a nano planted tank. Nice quality time-lapse video from Poland.
