by Matt Pedersen AZ | 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...
by Sumer Tiwari | Jul 10, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Sumer Tiwari, Freshwater
Many fishes in the aquarium hobby have unique and beautiful ways of reproducing. Species under suborder Anabantoidei, especially, have a strange way of reproducing. Whereas many species in this suborder are bubble-nesters, some Betta species like the ones under the...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Jun 2, 2020 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
The July/August 2020 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and arriving at the homes of magazine subscribers, local aquarium shops and better bookstores! Readers of the Digital Edition can access this issue starting June 9th, 2020: log into AMAZONAS DIGITAL EDITION...