by Matt Pedersen | Dec 15, 2021 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
AMAZONAS Magazine, Volume 11, Number 1, FRESHWATER FLATFISHES, on sale December 14th. On the cover: Brachirus selheimi (top), M. Hammer; Brachirus cf. selheimi (middle and bottom), Stefan Baldus The January/February 2022 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 3, 2021 | Freshwater
Richly black with sky blue eyes, a recent import of “blue eye panaques” is reminiscent of those that used to be far more common in the aquarium trade decades prior. via Nautilus Tropical Fish Wholesale “Blue-eye plecos are in stock,” exclaimed...
by Courtney Tobler | Feb 19, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
The wood-eating spotted loricariid catfish referred to as the watermelon pleco, the spotted royal pleco, or simply L330. is popular in the ornamental fish trade. A recently published article by Armando Ortega-Lara and Nathan Lujan in the journal Zootaxa recently...
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 3, 2019 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
The November/December 2019 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and arriving at the homes of magazine subscribers, local aquarium shops and better bookstores! For our 6th issue of 2019, we turn to the genus Pelvicachromis, home of the ever-popular...
by Matt Pedersen | Feb 26, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
We often talk about having a slice of the jungle or a piece of the reef in our homes, but often what aquarists recreate is a far cry from a true replica of a particular habitat, and it seldom fully approximates the conditions that fishes endure in the wild. There are...
