MARVELOUS MEDAKA
Volume 7, Number 6
5 Editorial by Ann Whitman
6 Letter From Europe by Friedrich Bitter
8 Aquatic Notebook by AMAZONAS staff
FEATURE ARTICLES
18 Introducing Medakas — A fish for many interests by Friedrich Bitter
28 View from the top: Multicolored Medakas by Fumitoshi Mori and Friedrich Bitter
38 Three Medaka breeders, three different approaches by Fumitoshi Mori
44 Reportage: Mexican Cichlids — Matías Romero—a fish-collection destination by Michael Pilack
52 Reportage: Searching West Papua for new rainbowfishes by Johannes Graf
64 What’s up?: Collecting Andean Ancistrus by Hans-Georg Evers
74 Husbandry and Breeding — Pearly Cichlids from Lake Tanganyika, Altolamprologus calvus by Wilhelm Klaas
78 Century Species — The Paradise Fish, Macropodus opercularis by Michael Kokoscha
82 Aquatic Plants — Recognizing nutrient deficiencies in aquarium plants by Maike Wilstermann-Hildebrand
DEPARTMENTS
88 Aquarium Calendar — Upcoming events by Janine Banks
90 Retail Sources
92 Species Snapshots
97 Advertiser Index
98 Underwater Eye by Hristo Hristov