by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 6, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
After several weeks in Colombia, visiting exporters in Bogota, checking out aquarium fish habitat in Villavicencio, and exploring the country’s link to the Amazon in Leticia, it was time to move on to the next phase of my travels. Peru, a country well known for...
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 AMAZONAS Magazine | Nov 30, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
The allure of travel, tropical rivers, and learning exactly where the fish in our home aquariums come from has never been far from my mind, even after a long trip through Southeast Asia doing exactly that. After some months back in the U.S. working and tending to my...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 15, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
In my first post on India’s Sunderbans National Park, I gave a brief overview of this unique ecosystem—the world’s largest mangrove forest—and shared some photos of the wildlife that call this huge expanse of land (stretching from West Bengal and into...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 17, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
In my previous post, I presented a fairly detailed overview of Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap Lake, a freshwater ecosystem which undergoes massive seasonal flooding—and a habitat which, I argued, would make for a fascinating biotope aquarium. In this installment...
