With only a handful of reported cases annually, Haff’s Disease is a debilitating but not always fatal condition that is usually traced to the consumption of a carp-like Native American fish commonly called the Bigmouth Buffalo, Istiobus cyprinellus, or on native Louisiana wild-caught crayfish.
Watch this any you may find yourself itching to set up a nano planted tank. Nice quality time-lapse video from Poland.
Amazing growth in a 55-gallon freshwater planted aquarium with CO2 supplementation.
It’s late evening in the fishroom (OK, it’s 2 AM in the fishroom), and I’m staying up late to take photos of a couple bettas that I’m planning on breeding.
An Indian endemic fish admired by many for its sleek elegance and shoaling behaviors in larger aquariums, the Redline Torpedo Barb, Puntius denisonii, may be overfished and endangered in its native waters, but captive-bred specimens are reported to be gaining ground and in new varieties.
Rainbow Darters, Central Stonerollers, Southern Redbelly Dace and brief appearances by an Orange-throat Darter and a Banded Darter.
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….
One man’s cull = another man’s treasure. After all these years, a Guppy can still grab me.
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.
Among the best-liked of tropical aquarium fishes, Corydoras and Aspidoras catfishes are appearing in an astonishing diversity of new species, many of them small in scale and perfectly suited nano-size tanks.
