by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 13, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“Day 3 in Colombia, and once again we wake up in the morning to find that somebody has parked our car in…. “Today, we’re headed back up the hill to Bogota to watch Hernando [Gil] pack a fish order. I’m going to check off two boxes on my...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 6, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“We carried on to the [fish] farm of my friend Hernando Gil, where he has invested a lot of resources into raising some of the rare ornamental fish found in Colombia. Let’s take a look!” That look includes Panda Uarus (Uaru fernandezyepezi), Altum...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 27, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“I’m standing here beside a beautiful clearwater stream in the Meta river system in the Colombia llanos. This stream runs into the Meta River, which eventually runs into the Orinoco, so the type of fish species we find here are fish that we find in the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 20, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
If you had the opportunity to travel to a tropical place with huge biodiversity, would you go? Would you dive in the streams to see all kinds of cichlids, tetras, and catfish in the wild? Would you camp on a sandy beach alongside a blackwater river? Sleep in a hammock...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Dec 9, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
In our just-released January/February 2017 issue of AMAZONAS, I examined a selection of unique microhabitats or biotopes in Brazil’s Rio Negro, the largest blackwater river on earth and home to hundreds of popular aquarium species. In this feature, I carefully...
