by Steve Waldron | Jun 3, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Steve Waldron, Freshwater
One of the joys of owning an aquarium shop is having the ability to peruse the wholesale distributor’s stock lists and choosing the week’s fish inventory. Things like rare rasboras and wild Betta species from the peat swamps of Borneo, unusual cyprinids...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 17, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
In my previous post, I presented a fairly detailed overview of Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap Lake, a freshwater ecosystem which undergoes massive seasonal flooding—and a habitat which, I argued, would make for a fascinating biotope aquarium. In this installment...
by Brandon Rutherford | Mar 28, 2015 | CORAL - Brandon Rutherford, Freshwater, Marine
Over the past two years, I have created a large coral reef project at Stratton Elementary in Champaign, Illinois, where I work at as a third-grade teacher. Other teachers and I use the coral reef tanks I’ve built around the school as instructional tools, and...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Oct 3, 2014 | Freshwater, New Products
Nano aquariums have become so popular that beginning aquarists are gravitating to smaller tanks as never before! With their immense popularity comes a growing appreciation for the smaller aquarium fish and invertebrates that would be lost in a typical larger community...
by Sumer Tiwari | May 30, 2014 | AMAZONAS - Sumer Tiwari, AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
Sumer Tiwari shares three videos of his current 17 gallon Shell-Dweller Aquarium, featured in the July/August 2014 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine. When I was planning for a cichlid tank, I wanted to keep something “not so common” and yet beautiful. My other...