Amazing growth in a 55-gallon freshwater planted aquarium with CO2 supplementation.
Amazonas Featured Video: Time-Lapse Planted Tank Growth
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Freshwater Articles
Friday Photospread – The Gloved Hand
It’s late evening in the fishroom (OK, it’s 2 AM in the fishroom), and I’m staying up late to take photos of a couple bettas that I’m planning on breeding.
Torpedoes Explosion
An Indian endemic fish admired by many for its sleek elegance and shoaling behaviors in larger aquariums, the Redline Torpedo Barb, Puntius denisonii, may be overfished and endangered in its native waters, but captive-bred specimens are reported to be gaining ground and in new varieties.
AMAZONAS Video: Native Ohio Stream Tank
Rainbow Darters, Central Stonerollers, Southern Redbelly Dace and brief appearances by an Orange-throat Darter and a Banded Darter.
India’s Underground Fish Trade
While roughly 90 percent of the marine aquarium trade’s animals originate on reefs, only about 10 percent of freshwater aquarium fishes have ever seen a natural ecosystem. Is the freshwater trade therefore above reproach when it comes to sustainability? Perhaps not….
Friday Photospread – Guppy, on Fire
One man’s cull = another man’s treasure. After all these years, a Guppy can still grab me.
CORAL and AMAZONAS – Table of Contents Mission Complete!
The best news of all: The majority of these articles can be accessed through the Reef to Rainforest Back Issue Archives, in both print and digital formats.
AMAZONAS September/October 2013 Preview
Among the best-liked of tropical aquarium fishes, Corydoras and Aspidoras catfishes are appearing in an astonishing diversity of new species, many of them small in scale and perfectly suited nano-size tanks.
AMAZONAS Feature Video: “Tributary” Aquascape
This ultra-low-profile planted aquarium by aquascaping master James Findley in Wales is sure to get the inspirational juices flowing for many aquarists.
New Killifish Species from Cameroon
A strikingly handsome new species of killifish the Pama River, a small tributary of the Nyong River flowing into the Gulf of Guinea in Central Africa’s Republic of Cameroon.
