by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 19, 2017 | Freshwater
Published recently in the journal Zootaxa on January 17th, 2017, a new species of horizontally-striped South American tetra has been described. From the article abstract: “A new species of Hyphessobrycon is described from the rio Roosevelt, rio Madeira basin,...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 17, 2017 | Freshwater
Who knows where the Guppies are? By Juliane Lukas and David Bierbach Excerpt from AMAZONAS, March/April 2017 (Notebook) For 40 years, the Gillbach River, near the coal-fired Niederaussem power plant, has been known for its tropical fishes (Kempkes et al. 2009, Jourdan...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 14, 2017 | Freshwater, New Products
Featuring a bold, vertically curved glass front and sleek all-in-one design, the new Flex Aquarium Kits from Fluval Aquatics are available in both 9-gallon (34L) and 15-gallon (57L) sizes. With the overwhelming majority of all-in-one aquarium kits—especially those...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 9, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
Following up on my earlier video of a somewhat unusual, clear-water microhabitat along the lower Rio Negro, here is a collection of underwater footage filmed a few days’ travel upriver, in what would be considered “classic” blackwater habitat. The...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Dec 9, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
In our just-released January/February 2017 issue of AMAZONAS, I examined a selection of unique microhabitats or biotopes in Brazil’s Rio Negro, the largest blackwater river on earth and home to hundreds of popular aquarium species. In this feature, I carefully...
