The May/June 2017 Issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and now on its way to print magazine subscribers, local aquarium shops, and most Barnes & Noble bookstores.
AMAZONAS Magazine “Beguiling Gobies” Inside Look
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Freshwater Articles
Keeping Blind Cave Fishes (or not)
While cave fishes may seem like blind, curious creatures from another world, many of us in the aquarium hobby had our first encounter with the strange world of subterranean fishes when we saw real, live examples in our local aquarium shop.
AMAZONAS Magazine Table of Contents May/June 2017
BEGUILING GOBIES, AMAZONAS Magazine Volume 6, Number 3
VIDEO: Ted Judy’s 2016 Colombia Expedition, Ep. 5
Persistence in the face of uncooperative conditions tends to pay off, as Ted Judy demonstrates in the fifth installment of his Colombian fish expedition video series.
Subterranean Aquatic Life
The denizens of cave rivers represent an odd and fascinating community of organisms—lack of eyes and pigment in many species creates bizarre, alien-looking life forms.
VIDEO: Ted Judy’s 2016 Colombia Expedition, Ep. 4
Watch how the exporters here pack fish to go out of the country, and learn a little more about how they handle Altum Angelfish [Pterophyllum altum].
Culturing a More Diverse Planted Aquarium
The future looks bright for tissue cultured aquarium plants in the aquarium hobby.
VIDEO: Ted Judy’s 2016 Colombia Expedition, Ep. 3
Hernando Gil has invested a lot of resources into raising some of the rare ornamental fish found in Colombia. Let’s take a look!
VIDEO: Ted Judy’s 2016 Colombia Expedition, Ep. 2
Explore the amazing Cano Potosi biotope and find Apistogramma viejita; watch now!
Charismatic New Brazilian Tetra Species Found In Blackwater Reservoir
With countless aquatic species awaiting discovery in the backwaters of Amazonia, only a select few will ever capture the attention of the aquarium world. Those that instantly catch the eye of humans are informally classified as “charismatic”—a hard to define quality that may be driven by pigmentation, form, behaviors and personality. In the case of Phycocharax rasbora, it is readily apparent in its vivid hues, flashy presence and the promise of being a sociable community fish.
