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 AZ | 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 AZ | 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...
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 | Jan 16, 2013 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
By Hans=Georg Evers Images courtesy Hudson Crizanto Excerpt from Aquatic Notebook, AMAZONAS March/April 2013 Some time ago we featured Hudson Crizanto’s discus project on the lower Rio Purus in Brazil (Evers 2010). Since then, Crizanto and his company, H & K...
