by Matt Pedersen | May 20, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Ray Motoyama’s 32 L planted tank is proof that small can be stunning. For some reason, everything about the presentation of this beautiful 8.5-gallon (32-L) planted aquarium speaks to aquarists of different skill levels and says “you too can do...
by Matt Pedersen | May 20, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
I love that in the aquarium hobby you can literally never run out of new and interesting things to stumble across, and you can never truly “know it all.” Sure, you can have hard-earned expertise in a particular genre of fish, perhaps, but at the end of the...
by Matt Pedersen | May 6, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
In the days of growing income disparity in the U.S., I have to chuckle about the names we used to use for fish. Consider the “Poor Man’s Moorish Idol,” the name applied to the marine butterflyfish Heniochus acuminatus. I guess if you didn’t...
by Matt Pedersen | Apr 22, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, News & Notes
With all the doom and gloom out there lately, I admit, it’s tough to keep up. For aquarists interested in rare and exciting Loricarids, Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam captured our attention, the forecasted extinctions a huge hydroelectric project would cause are...
by Matt Pedersen | Apr 19, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
In early April 2016, I was blessed to host two veteran aquarists here in Duluth, MN, who would be speaking at a joint Frag Swap & Speaker Event held 3 hours west on the frozen tundra of Bemidji, MN. James Fatheree, a highly-recognized columnist and author of...
