by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jun 6, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
In the most recent (July/August 2017) issue of AMAZONAS, I concluded a two-part exploration into the many unique microhabitats found throughout the middle Rio Negro in Brazil and an in-depth look at how to recreate them in an aquarium. In the years since I first...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 30, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
During my travels through the Amazon Basin last year, I spent a few days in and around the small, picturesque city of Santarem on the middle Amazon. Located about midway between between the much larger cities of Belem and Manaus, Santarém lies at the juncture of the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 9, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
Following up on my earlier video of a somewhat unusual, clear-water microhabitat along the lower Rio Negro, here is a collection of underwater footage filmed a few days’ travel upriver, in what would be considered “classic” blackwater habitat. The...
