by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 28, 2024 | Freshwater, News & Notes
On January 24th, 2024, the US Fish And Wildlife Service published this press release announcing the findings of a 10 species review. via US FWS FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed its 90-day findings on petitions to list 10 species...
by Matt Pedersen | Sep 1, 2023 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
AMAZONAS Magazine, Volume 12, Number 5, FRESHWATER STINGRAYS. On the cover: Potamotrygon jabuti (top) and Potamotrygon cf. leopoldi Photos: Nathan Chiang The September/October 2023 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and on its way to the homes of magazine...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 24, 2021 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Hulk Betta Mad. Hulk Betta: “Smash That Like Button and Subscribe!” The most amazing, toxic-green betta you could imagine puts GloBettas to shame and blew up on social media this year. It’s easy to understand why this fish went viral…it’s...
by Sumer Tiwari | Oct 11, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Sumer Tiwari, Freshwater
A 6 week old Betta macrostoma fry with a full belly after feasting on baby brine shrimp Roughly 80 eggs that were collected by stripping a Betta macrostoma male. When my last blog post (VIDEO: Details of Betta macrostoma mating and breeding) was published, I got a...
by Courtney Tobler | Aug 14, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
There is a new Betta known to science! Authors Kamal, Tan, and Ng (2020) recently described a new species of hill-stream Betta native to Malaysia in the journal Zootaxa. To some, the thought of a typical fighting fish habitat produces imagery of slow-moving perhaps...
