by Matt Pedersen | Dec 17, 2020 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
AMAZONAS Magazine, Volume 10, Number 1, ALLURING LORICARIIDS, on sale December 8th, 2020! On the cover: Crossoloricaria variegata (top) and Sturisomatichthys tamanae (middle) by Oliver Lucanus; chocolate whiptail catfish (Rineloricaria lanceolata) (bottom) by Norman...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 12, 2020 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
an excerpt from the September/October 2020 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine, by Paul V. Loiselle The history of Laetacara araguaiae, both taxonomic and aquaristic, is convoluted. This colorful cichlid entered the German hobby in 1949 under the name Aequidens thayeri, a...
by Matt Pedersen | Dec 19, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
AMAZONAS contributor and founder of the Canadian aquarium fish importer Below Water, Oliver Lucanus, has launched a new project; concise video profiles of unique and rare freshwater fishes. Arguably, Lucanus couldn’t have chosen a more lust-worthy example to...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 25, 2015 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
Apistogramma kullanderi by Hans-Georg Evers Excerpt from AMAZONAS Notebook, Nov/Dec 2015 “A titan among dwarfs,” is what scientists Henrique Varella and Mark H. Sabaj Pérez are calling Apistogramma kullanderi, the newest member of a popular genus of dwarf...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 10, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, News & Notes
Recently, as the US marked the tenth anniversary of the devastation and tragedy wrought by Hurricane Katrina, the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans received a group of rare former residents. The fish—a group of Hoplarchus psittacum, or “true” parrot...
