by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 27, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“I’m standing here beside a beautiful clearwater stream in the Meta river system in the Colombia llanos. This stream runs into the Meta River, which eventually runs into the Orinoco, so the type of fish species we find here are fish that we find in the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 20, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
If you had the opportunity to travel to a tropical place with huge biodiversity, would you go? Would you dive in the streams to see all kinds of cichlids, tetras, and catfish in the wild? Would you camp on a sandy beach alongside a blackwater river? Sleep in a hammock...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jul 1, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, News & Notes
As part of its mission to improve and promote the aquarium fishery based along Brazil’s Rio Negro, nonprofit organization Project Piaba held a “train the trainers” workshop in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil this week. The workshop saw an...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 12, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
Over the course of four days in the Colombian border town of Leticia, I had spent time collecting in the blackwater creeks feeding into the Amazon (part I), and scoured the area searching for aquarium fish collectors and traders (part II). For an impromptu and...
by Sumer Tiwari | Feb 10, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Sumer Tiwari, Freshwater
Continued from Collecting Trip to India: Part 1. In the first installment, amateur aquarist Sumer Tiwari was exploring the waters of India’s Kumaradhara river system, upstream of a bridge access near Coorg. He encountered a diverse range of native fish species,...
