by Courtney Tobler | Nov 4, 2019 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Assessing the Species in the CARES Preservation Program and the Role of Aquarium Hobbyists in Freshwater Fish Conservation was recently published in the open-access journal Fishes. Authors Jose W. Valdez of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Kapil Mandrekar of the SUNY...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 5, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL Excerpt, Freshwater, Marine
an excerpt from CORAL Magazine, May/June 2012, by Matt Pedersen Can marine aquarists provide a safety net for endangered species and aquatic diversity? The first time I publicly expressed my concerns for the future of coral reefs, I got a bit choked up and teary-eyed....
by Matt Pedersen | May 20, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
I love that in the aquarium hobby you can literally never run out of new and interesting things to stumble across, and you can never truly “know it all.” Sure, you can have hard-earned expertise in a particular genre of fish, perhaps, but at the end of the...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 4, 2014 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, News & Notes
Opinion by Matt Pedersen I grew up with the Redtailed Black Shark; back then we knew it was Labeo bicolor but these days we call it Epalzeorhynchos bicolor. I’m sure I owned one before my 10th birthday, which puts the timeframe into the early-mid 1980s. Only a...
by John Tullock | Jul 21, 2008 | AMAZONAS - John Tullock, Freshwater, News & Notes
Here in the Southeast, we are sweltering through another year of drought. Some parts of the Cherokee and Pisgah National Forests, lying just east of where I live, are experiencing record low precipitation totals. To the west, the broad, flat Cumberland and Barrens...
