by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 5, 2013 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Scandinavian scientists issue Pacu Warning to male skinny dippers Summer months, often the doldrums for hard news, annually bring out shark-attack scare stories and flashbacks to hair-raising scenes in the movie JAWS, but for northern European swimmers the mid-summer...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 5, 2013 | Freshwater
Piaractus brachypomus (Cuvier, 1818) Red-Bellied Pacu (Pirapitinga, Giant Pacu, Black Pacu, Gamitana) Order: Characiformes (18 families, 270 genera, approximately 1,674 species) Family: Serrasalmidae (Pacu, Piranha, Silver Dollars) Overview: Pacus are vegetarian...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Aug 25, 2013 | Freshwater, News & Notes
TROPHEUS ISSUE AMAZONAS Magazine November/December 2013 Among the most engaging and prized of cichlids available to aquarists, the genus Tropheus currently includes eight species, some of them undescribed—but with countless local variants and color morphs—from the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Aug 23, 2013 | Freshwater
As the keeping of tropical fish is emerging as a boom in Asia, especially among China’s exploding middle classes, some South American aquacultural entrepreneurs are racing to meet the growing demand for exotic aquarium fishes. In Colombia’s Caqueta...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Aug 21, 2013 | Freshwater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoOf3M8k2X8 CREDIT meady200 | BBCFour | You Tube A fascinating glimpse at a batch of 38 prized Japanese koi worth more than $75,000 apiece, or almost $3 million. Be sure to watch the master breeder explaining why a certain fish is a...
