by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 18, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mary Sweeney, AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
by Mary E. Sweeny This article first appeared in the May/June 2012 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine; get the back issue now! Often, in the warming days of spring, when those pondering instincts kick in (and a real dug pond is completely out of the question), I find myself...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 17, 2017 | Freshwater
Scientists describe new Megamouth Dwarf Cichlid, Apistogramma megastoma, with maternal mouthbrooding behaviors Mouthbrooding is not a behavior most aquarists would attribute to dwarf cichlids of the genus Apistogramma, which makes it all the more interesting to...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 8, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“The week spent in the region of Villavicencio, Colombia, has been great. We have seen some awesome habitats and some really cool fish. We have seen pike cichlids at most locations, found the Apistogramma viejita, watched females of two different populations of...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 3, 2017 | Freshwater
From the 2017 May/June issue of AMAZONAS Magazine Neolamprologus pectoralis is a scrappy, 5.5-inch-long Tanganyikan Cichlid that is uncommon in the aquarium hobby, perhaps for good reason. Holger Zinke refers to it as “expensive, rare, aggressive, and not very...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 21, 2017 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
by Hans-Georg Evers • When Martin Mortenthaler, our correspondent in Iquitos, recently sent me an email, it had a spectacular attachment: photos of young Silver Dollars that are bright green, like children’s toys, during their first months of life. They are juveniles...
