by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 20, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
I recently had the chance to set up some new aquariums at home, a few of which spent a long time in the planning stages. After the exciting/stressful phase of bringing in a fair number of fish to stock these tanks, I’ve had a few weeks now to sit back, enjoy the...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 17, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
from materials via PLoS ONE The plecostomus formerly known as L398 has been formally described by Christian Andreas Cramer and Leandro Melo de Sousa as Panaqolus tankei in the journal PLoS ONE. The description of the species, a native of the Rio Xingu, brings the...
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 | Nov 30, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
The allure of travel, tropical rivers, and learning exactly where the fish in our home aquariums come from has never been far from my mind, even after a long trip through Southeast Asia doing exactly that. After some months back in the U.S. working and tending to my...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 17, 2015 | Freshwater
Today’s video selection features a large collection of Loricarid Catfishes kept by an aquarist in Hong Kong, CWL YAM. As one AMAZONAS contributor commented, “Amazingly healthy fish but beyond anything I would call crowding.” Another countered,...
