by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 16, 2013 | Freshwater
Here is a peaceful looking nano planted aquarium in France that, upon close observation, is teeming with life and interesting animals. Note shrimp molting at about 2:15 into the video. Also, the tank supports a thriving population of Ostracods, tiny crustaceans...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 15, 2013 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
Amazing Underwater Gardens By Karen Randall Excerpt from AMAZONAS Magazine, March/April 2013 The Aquatic Gardeners Association Aquascaping Contest is the world’s oldest contest of its kind. This was our 13th year, and I have been privileged to judge both this contest...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 19, 2013 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater, News & Notes
PASADENA, Calif. Jan. 17, 2013 – An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study. These results, together with observed recurrences of droughts...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 16, 2013 | Freshwater, News & Notes
It may be the dead of winter, with overnight lows plummeting below freezeing in Hot Springs, South Dakota, but State fisheries biologists in South Dakota are blaming irresponsible aquarium hobbyists for introducing a population of Jack Dempsey cichlids, Rocia...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 16, 2013 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
By Hans=Georg Evers Images courtesy Hudson Crizanto Excerpt from Aquatic Notebook, AMAZONAS March/April 2013 Some time ago we featured Hudson Crizanto’s discus project on the lower Rio Purus in Brazil (Evers 2010). Since then, Crizanto and his company, H & K...
