by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 22, 2017 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
by Michael J. Tuccinardi While cave fishes may seem like blind, curious creatures from another world, many of us in the aquarium hobby had our first encounter with the strange world of subterranean fishes when we saw real, live examples in our local aquarium shop. I...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 20, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“The plan for this day is to drive south out of Villavicencio, into an area along the edge of the mountains where Apistogramma alacrina can be found. We got an early start on the day, but it is raining. Our distant goal is the village of Mesetas, where the road...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 17, 2017 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
LIFE IN THE DARK EXPLORING CAVE RIVERS • article & images by Dante Fenolio, Ph.D. Excerpt from AMAZONAS Magazine May/June 2017, Volume 6 #3 Groundwater wildlife: communicating science and conservation through photography A crisp morning in the Ozarks found us...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 13, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“Day 3 in Colombia, and once again we wake up in the morning to find that somebody has parked our car in…. “Today, we’re headed back up the hill to Bogota to watch Hernando [Gil] pack a fish order. I’m going to check off two boxes on my...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 6, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“We carried on to the [fish] farm of my friend Hernando Gil, where he has invested a lot of resources into raising some of the rare ornamental fish found in Colombia. Let’s take a look!” That look includes Panda Uarus (Uaru fernandezyepezi), Altum...