Getting a second chance with the bodacious mouthbrooding Betta ocellata.
Friday Photospread – Betta ocellata, the Bodacious Eyespot Betta
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Freshwater Articles
AMAZONAS Featured Video: Riparium Tank Basics
Inspiring look at a very appealing new type of planted aquarium, with emergent and shoreline plants creatively mounted to the back wall of the tank.
Perfect Storm Looms for Brazil’s Diversity of Fishes
Biologists fear a new wave of invasive fish species will be headed for Brazilian waters if legislation in that country’s Congress is passed.
AMAZONAS Featured Video: “Collectoritis” Planted Aquarium
I find it important to take the time to learn the way plants grow and a great way of doing that is setting up a collectoritis style planted aquarium.
Arriving Soon: Tank-Raised African Freshwater Pipefish
The African Freshwater, or Dwarf Red Snout, Pipefish is exotic and rare enough that even expert aquarists assume it is more at home on a coral reef than in a clear freshwater stream 100 miles from the ocean. Now this sometimes brilliantly pigmented little species is being bred in captivity and is starting to enter the aquarium trade.
Featured AMAZONAS Video: Discus Parental Care
Amazing Discus parental care captured on video in an aquarium shop Down Under.
A Mexican Crayfish for Nano Aquariums
The Dwarf Orange Crayfish, Cambarellus patzcuarensis “Orange,” is a petite and colorful crustacean that is not as well known to freshwater aquarists as it should be, but that it makes a sassy and active addition to a nano aquarium. While some crayfish and “mini lobsters” can be destructive, this species has proved safe with plants, fishes, and other invertebrates.
Hélène Lagueux – Breeding Pterophyllum sp. Rio Nanay in Quebec
Incredible videos of Pterophyllum sp. “Rio Nanay”, also know as Peruvian Altum Angelfish, spawning in the aquariums of Hélène Lagueux.
Featured Video: Expert Plants A Tank
Strong colours and vigorous growth require optimal lighting, as well as the addition of the proper amount of fertilizer and CO2 – But other than that, it is really not that difficult. Hemianthus, Didiplis and Bolbitis all thrive in such good conditions, just as Rotala macrandra and mini-Alternanthera develop optimal, deep-red colours.
In Search of the Blue-Eyed Pleco
My objective was to discover why the export of the legendary Blue-Eyed Pleco from this region came to a standstill in the mid 1990s. What could have caused this sudden change?
