by Matt Pedersen AZ | Mar 4, 2021 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
Red Arowana or Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus) is one of the world’s most expensive cultivated ornamental fishes, and is an endangered species. Image copyright Japan’ Fireworks/Shutterstock. New federal legislation before Congress would change the US...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Nov 4, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
The little livebearers collectively known as the goodeids (aka. splitfins) are perhaps a classic example of what some might call “little gray fish that almost no one cares about.” Well, almost no one, save a handful of scientists and dedicated aquarists,...
by Courtney Tobler | Nov 4, 2019 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Assessing the Species in the CARES Preservation Program and the Role of Aquarium Hobbyists in Freshwater Fish Conservation was recently published in the open-access journal Fishes. Authors Jose W. Valdez of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Kapil Mandrekar of the SUNY...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 9, 2018 | Freshwater
Still not described by science, the so-called Running River Rainbowfish is recognized by Australian enthusiasts as beautiful, distinctive—and threatened in its natural habitat by an invasive Eastern Rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida, a species suspected to have been...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Dec 14, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Discovering some footage of this rare cichlid being spawned and reared by Canadian aquarist Jim Cumming inspired us to take a closer look at this fish. Cichlid enthusiasts know that this family of fishes is all but absent in Asia. Most of us learned long ago about the...
