News of a wild Red Tailed Shark generates hope, yet digging deeper reveals possible evidence of troubling anti-aquarium sentiments with implications for every aquarist.
Nearly-Extinct Red Tailed Shark Isn’t Gone Yet
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News & Notes Articles
MAWS – Beware the Fishy Herbivore?
Summer months, often the doldrums for hard news, annually bring out shark-attack scare stories and references to hair-raising scenes in the movie JAWS, but for northern European swimmers the mid-summer chill was provided by a herbivorous fish caught in the strait of Oresund between Denmark and Sweden.
AMAZONAS November/December 2013 Issue Preview
Look to the next issue of AMAZONAS for a definitive look at Tropheus cichlids in the wild and in the aquariuim, with expert coverage of their natural history, their controversial taxonomy, care, feeding, and captive breeding. With dozens of glorious new images, this section includes contributions by Hans-Georg Evers, Ad Konings, Mathias Eberhardt, and Norbert Knaak.
India’s Underground Fish Trade
While roughly 90 percent of the marine aquarium trade’s animals originate on reefs, only about 10 percent of freshwater aquarium fishes have ever seen a natural ecosystem. Is the freshwater trade therefore above reproach when it comes to sustainability? Perhaps not….
CORAL and AMAZONAS – Table of Contents Mission Complete!
The best news of all: The majority of these articles can be accessed through the Reef to Rainforest Back Issue Archives, in both print and digital formats.
New Killifish Species from Cameroon
A strikingly handsome new species of killifish the Pama River, a small tributary of the Nyong River flowing into the Gulf of Guinea in Central Africa’s Republic of Cameroon.
PlanetXingu FundRazr Campaign To Fund Rio Xingu Scientific Expedition
The Lower Rio Xingu, imminently threatened by the Belo Monte Dam project, is the subject of a grassroots crowd-funding effort to support biodiversity research before it’s too late.
New See-Through Nano Tetra Discovered
“It is a strange little animal, completely transparent with an otherwise unique colour pattern,” says London Natural History Museum fish ichthyologist Dr. Ralf Britz of a tiny new tetra he helped identify and name.
Male Seeking Mate: Must Want Kids – Quest to save Ptychochromis insolitus
Calling all cichlid aquarists – ZSL London Zoo launches worldwide appeal to find and save a critically endangered fish.
“Fishzilla” Loose in Central Park Lake
Peaceful Harlem Meer has long been a place to cast a fly or a worm-baited hook in hopes of catching something in the panfish category—yellow perch, small bass, and crappies—but several fishermen have been reporting surprise or downright terror when they have latched into toothy gamefish with pugnacious attitudes and mouthsfull of razor-sharp teeth.
