A wide range of industry experts and competing businesses recently joined together to stave off industry-killing whitelist proposals in the state of Florida. Such cooperation is much needed for the good of the aquarium trade at the local and national level. Image courtesy Nautilus Tropical Fish Wholesale.
Florida’s pet trade and pet owners are facing a full-on assault on their ability to keep, culture, and sell the vast majority of organisms that currently make up the pet trade. In short, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is proposing two variations on a strict white list approach to pet trade regulation in the name of preventing future invasive species problems. These proposals may restrict the total amount of species across all subsets of the pet hobby to as few as perhaps only 200 total species across the entirety of the pet trade.
Ryan Kinney’s line of freshwater fish inspired t-shirts are sure to spark conversation and get you grinning as we look forward to the warm months ahead!
While Tunze’s newest micro-pump is intended as a 1:1 replacement for their Osomolator auto-top-off system, imaginative aquarists may see an endless amount of nano and pico applications for this compact and rugged 12-volt DC pump.
Meet Steve Ehrlich, master aquarist, killifish enthusiast, and author of “Collecting Killifishes in Kenya” available in the Jan/Feb 2023 issue of AMAZONAS.
A preview of highlights in AMAZONAS Magazine’s January/February 2023 Issue. Paid AMAZONAS Subscribers can log in with their email address and read the Digital Edition starting December 13th, 2022.
We first showed you a prototype of Tunze’s new aquarium cooling fan in photos from MACNA 2022 in Milwaukee. Now in production, aquarists can consider using evaporative cooling as a cost-effective option to help reduce aquarium temperatures.
Highlights from AMAZONAS Magazine’s May/June 2023 issue. Paid AMAZONAS subscribers can log in with their email address and read the Digital Edition starting April 18th, 2023.
We first showed you a prototype of Tunze’s new aquarium cooling fan in photos from MACNA 2022 in Milwaukee. Now in production, aquarists can consider using evaporative cooling as a cost-effective option to help reduce aquarium temperatures.
BON APPETIT Volume 12, Number 3
