Calling all cichlid aquarists – ZSL London Zoo launches worldwide appeal to find and save a critically endangered fish.
Male Seeking Mate: Must Want Kids – Quest to save Ptychochromis insolitus
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Freshwater Articles
Friday Photospread – Blue Angelfish Babies
A Friday Photospread with tips for recreating similar images.
AMAZONAS Video: Backyard Pond Inspirations
Here’s a portfolio of appealing garden water features and their ecstatic owners. Mildly promotional, but inspiring for anyone bitten by the pond bug as spring weather unfolds.
“Fishzilla” Loose in Central Park Lake
Peaceful Harlem Meer has long been a place to cast a fly or a worm-baited hook in hopes of catching something in the panfish category—yellow perch, small bass, and crappies—but several fishermen have been reporting surprise or downright terror when they have latched into toothy gamefish with pugnacious attitudes and mouthsfull of razor-sharp teeth.
Friday Photospread – Betta ocellata, the Bodacious Eyespot Betta
Getting a second chance with the bodacious mouthbrooding Betta ocellata.
AMAZONAS Featured Video: Riparium Tank Basics
Inspiring look at a very appealing new type of planted aquarium, with emergent and shoreline plants creatively mounted to the back wall of the tank.
Perfect Storm Looms for Brazil’s Diversity of Fishes
Biologists fear a new wave of invasive fish species will be headed for Brazilian waters if legislation in that country’s Congress is passed.
AMAZONAS Featured Video: “Collectoritis” Planted Aquarium
I find it important to take the time to learn the way plants grow and a great way of doing that is setting up a collectoritis style planted aquarium.
Arriving Soon: Tank-Raised African Freshwater Pipefish
The African Freshwater, or Dwarf Red Snout, Pipefish is exotic and rare enough that even expert aquarists assume it is more at home on a coral reef than in a clear freshwater stream 100 miles from the ocean. Now this sometimes brilliantly pigmented little species is being bred in captivity and is starting to enter the aquarium trade.
Featured AMAZONAS Video: Discus Parental Care
Amazing Discus parental care captured on video in an aquarium shop Down Under.
