by AMAZONAS Magazine | Oct 23, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, News & Notes
Project Piaba, a nonprofit conservation organization with a focus on the aquarium fishery on Brazil’s Rio Negro, recently completed its second round of training sessions in the middle Rio Negro aimed at improving handling practices for aquarium fish immediately...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 21, 2017 | Freshwater, News & Notes
via Project Piaba Join the expedition to the Rio Negro River in Brazil and observe all aspects of the home aquarium fishery, January 20-February 2, 2018. The trip includes: 2 weeks on a well-appointed live-aboard boat Visits to biological hotspots Visits to fishing...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Jun 12, 2017 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
The July/August 2017 Issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and now on its way to magazine subscribers, local aquarium shops, and better bookstores. On sale June 6th, 2017. Readers of the Digital Edition can access it now: AMAZONAS DIGITAL EDITION Paid subscribers can...
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 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...
