by Matt Pedersen | May 9, 2025 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, New Products
Tropica asks: The Future of Aquarium Plants? Will the rest of the aquarium plant industry take note? Tropica Aquarium Plants recently revealed a rethink of the classic potted aquarium plants offered in the aquarium trade. Modern aquarium plants currently come in a...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Nov 14, 2022 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
Potential outcomes if Hypancistrus zebra (Zebra Pleco), which has been banned for export in Brazil since 2004, is listed by CITES. via Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association Ltd (OATA) OATA has joined fellow global pet trade representatives to make its views heard at...
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 | Dec 21, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
Fresh off the excitement of my first glimpse of aquarium fish in the wild outside Villavicencio, Colombia, I decided to take a last-minute detour away from Bogota and into the heart of Amazonas. My destination: Leticia, the extreme Southeast corner of the Colombia and...
