by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 10, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
I’ve always been a sucker for the true oddballs of the aquarium fish world—the cryptic, colorless, weird-looking fish with few, if any, redeeming characteristics. If they’re known to be somewhat challenging to keep and likely to hide all the time, so much...
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 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 AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 15, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, News & Notes
A recently published paper in the journal Zootaxa has formally described two species of freshwater stingray from the Tapajós River in Brazil. Both species have been known to the aquarium trade for some time, the first being referred to as the “P14” or...