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...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 6, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, CORAL - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, Marine
Read: Part I | Part II | Part III When you get many of the country’s largest importers, farmers, and wholesalers of aquarium fish all together at the same event, chances are they’re going to use that opportunity to show off their best, newest, and...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 4, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting at a conference on the aquarium trade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, along with a number of Sri Lankan and international speakers. After the conference, speakers and international visitors were treated to a trip to the...
