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.
AMAZONAS Featured Video: “Collectoritis” Planted Aquarium
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Freshwater Articles
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.
A Mexican Crayfish for Nano Aquariums
The Dwarf Orange Crayfish, Cambarellus patzcuarensis “Orange,” is a petite and colorful crustacean that is not as well known to freshwater aquarists as it should be, but that it makes a sassy and active addition to a nano aquarium. While some crayfish and “mini lobsters” can be destructive, this species has proved safe with plants, fishes, and other invertebrates.
Hélène Lagueux – Breeding Pterophyllum sp. Rio Nanay in Quebec
Incredible videos of Pterophyllum sp. “Rio Nanay”, also know as Peruvian Altum Angelfish, spawning in the aquariums of Hélène Lagueux.
Featured Video: Expert Plants A Tank
Strong colours and vigorous growth require optimal lighting, as well as the addition of the proper amount of fertilizer and CO2 – But other than that, it is really not that difficult. Hemianthus, Didiplis and Bolbitis all thrive in such good conditions, just as Rotala macrandra and mini-Alternanthera develop optimal, deep-red colours.
In Search of the Blue-Eyed Pleco
My objective was to discover why the export of the legendary Blue-Eyed Pleco from this region came to a standstill in the mid 1990s. What could have caused this sudden change?
AMAZONAS May/June 2013 Preview
Full of brilliant color AMAZONAS for May/June ranges widely in subject matter, from Aphyosemion spp. African killifishes, to a new Apistogramma species and its successful breeding, travels in South America in search of the very elusive Blue-eyed Pleco, to a hobbyist’s successful conversion to LED lighting over a 265-gallon (1,000-L) planted aquarium, and much more.
Featured Video: Red Bee Shrimp Nano Tank
Thriving nano planted aquarium dedicated to colony of Red Bee Shrimp.
AGA Aquascape Winners 2012
The Aquatic Gardeners Association Aquascaping Contest is the world’s oldest contest of its kind. This was our 13th year, and I have been privileged to judge both this contest and the Aqua Design Amano IAPLC from the inception. Over the last 13 years we have seen a tremendous growth of interest in aquatic gardening both in the U.S. and worldwide. One of the nice things about our AGA contest is that anyone can go onto our website, www.aquatic-gardeners.org, and see every tank ever entered, including all the details on the tanks and the judges’ comments.
