by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 4, 2018 | Freshwater, New Products
via Repashy Superfoods by Stephan M. Tanner Ph.D., SwissTropicals and Allen Repashy, Repashy Superfoods In nature, most aquarium fish species rarely eat other fish. Only a minority of species are piscivores, yet most aquarium fish diets are based mainly on fishmeal,...
by Matt Pedersen | Mar 9, 2018 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
At the start of March, we shared a viral mudskipper video posted by Facebook user Michael Fong on the AMAZONAS Facebook page. In the video, an aquarist is seen feeding pellet foods to a swarm of mudskippers by hand. Based on reader response, that video will likely...
by Matt Pedersen | Dec 14, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Discovering some footage of this rare cichlid being spawned and reared by Canadian aquarist Jim Cumming inspired us to take a closer look at this fish. Cichlid enthusiasts know that this family of fishes is all but absent in Asia. Most of us learned long ago about the...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 1, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Sacramento Koi has raised the bar on self-funded documentary-style marketing with a delightful ride-along video compiled from a 2015 Koi buying trip, destination Japan. Escape wherever you are (particularly if it’s snowing like it is here as I write this!), and...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 21, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“When we were arriving by plane into Puerto Inirida, we had a bird’s-eye view of the whitewater Rio Guaviare near its confluence with the Rio Inirida, and we all noticed a large blackwater oxbow lake very near the river. This is Lago Macasabe. After...
