AMAZONAS Editor Hans-Georg Evers takes the reader into the remote waters of Sulawesi in search of a number of halfbeak species that could make exceptionally interesting aquarium inhabitants. “Quirky” is how Hans describes them, admitting “I put my heart and soul into finding and describing them for this issue.”
What is the oldest aquarium fish you have ever owned?
A new species of giant arapaima, South America’s largest freshwater fish, has been described from the central Amazon in Brazil, and scientists say the discovery raises questions about what other species remain to be discovered.
UK-based aquarist Jason Stanford makes us rethink what a Piranha aquarium can be!
Part 1 examines how Amazonas Editor Matt Pedersen sets up artificial incubation of Angelfish eggs.
Part 2 follows the development of Angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare) eggs from incubation and hatching to juvenile fish.
Australian or Queensland Lungfish, one of the oldest living fish species on earth, shown in its native habitat.
Repashy’s new REDRUM is a Carotenoid Supplemental Diet, but Morning Wood? Possibly the first ever commercial diet for wood-eating (Xylivore) fishes.
When the dinosaurs first appeared on earth some 230 million years ago, the ancestors of modern-day lungfishes had already been paddling around for 150 million years. And when the great extinction that took out T. rex and Company, 66 million years ago, the lungfishes swam right through the global upheaval.
There is, of course, the undeniable truth of being a fish addict: If you can find a way to add more fish, you’ll do it.
