by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 20, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“The plan for this day is to drive south out of Villavicencio, into an area along the edge of the mountains where Apistogramma alacrina can be found. We got an early start on the day, but it is raining. Our distant goal is the village of Mesetas, where the road...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 13, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“Day 3 in Colombia, and once again we wake up in the morning to find that somebody has parked our car in…. “Today, we’re headed back up the hill to Bogota to watch Hernando [Gil] pack a fish order. I’m going to check off two boxes on my...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Mar 6, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“We carried on to the [fish] farm of my friend Hernando Gil, where he has invested a lot of resources into raising some of the rare ornamental fish found in Colombia. Let’s take a look!” That look includes Panda Uarus (Uaru fernandezyepezi), Altum...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 27, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
“I’m standing here beside a beautiful clearwater stream in the Meta river system in the Colombia llanos. This stream runs into the Meta River, which eventually runs into the Orinoco, so the type of fish species we find here are fish that we find in the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 20, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Ted Judy, Freshwater
If you had the opportunity to travel to a tropical place with huge biodiversity, would you go? Would you dive in the streams to see all kinds of cichlids, tetras, and catfish in the wild? Would you camp on a sandy beach alongside a blackwater river? Sleep in a hammock...