Here’s a short, instructive video on creating an “Iwagumi” (rock garden) aquascape by Oliver Knott, the European planted aquarium rock star.
Video: Step-by-Step Iwagumi Planted Aquarium
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News & Notes Articles
AMAZONAS Preview: January/February 2013
The first issue of AMAZONAS for 2013 will feature angelfishes and will have a publication date of December 4, 2012.
Correction: Updated Species Name for Jaguar Cichlid
The correct scientific name for the Jaguar Cichlid is Parachromis managuensis. The Underwater Eye by photographer Morrill Devlin in the November/December AMAZONAS, page 96, used the the synonym Parachromis managuense, which is no longer valid.
AMAZONAS Nov/Dec 2012 Digital Edition
AMAZONAS completes its first year of publishing in English with an issue covering discus breeding and husbandry with contributions from an international array of experts:
AMAZONAS Editor Coming to U.S.
An inveterate world traveler to the native waters of freshwater fishes, Evers has some 50 home aquaria and has “so far” bred more than 250 species in his own tanks. He has collected fish in many countries, including Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
Belo Monte: Protests mount against “Monster Dam” on Brazil’s Rio Xingu
Biologists and human rights observers are calling it an epic disaster in the making, a massive river-damming complex in the heart of the Amazon basin that threatens tens of thousands of native rainforest dwellers and the fish populations that sustain them and enrich the aquarium world.
John G. Shedd Aquarium – Chicago
Jay Hemdal revists the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
2011 Regional Aquatics Workshop and a look back at RAW
Jay Hemdal presents a history of RAW; Regional Aquatics Workshops, an event for public aquarists
The End of Aquariums?
A bill now working its way through the United States Congress would effectively end the keeping of non-native species in home aquariums.
Proposed Invasive Species Legislation Goes Too Far
Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act, HR6311, seeks to prevent the introduction of invasive species through a mixture of white lists and possession bans, which could have dire consequences for the aquarium industry and hobby.
