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...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 30, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Aquascaping jumped out of the special-interest groups and became a mainstream feature of the aquarium hobby when the inaugural Aquascaping Live! competition was launched at the 2014 Aquatic Experience – Chicago. With the third annual Aquascaping Live! in 2o16,...
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 21, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Photography is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of aquarium keeping. Seriously. While there are many aquarists who toil in darkness, and some who never seek the spotlight, let’s be honest. In the age of digital photography and the Internet, we live in a visual...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 31, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
While going through the blog archives and some long-forgotten drafts, I stumbled across two videos of Thai Betta breeding behavior that I had originally intended to publish alongside one of our Betta issues. The pair had been removed from their regular homes (the male...
