A Fragile Home on One Island If you love killifish, here is a story that is both fascinating and heart-breaking. Pituna xinguensis and Plesiolebias altamira are annual killifishes, tiny fish that live only in temporary pools. These pools appear during the rainy season and completely dry during the dry months.
For many fishkeepers, recreating a biotope aquarium is about more than matching water parameters. It is about understanding how a species experiences its environment. In the case of Chromobotia macracantha, the clown loach, sensory adaptations, seasonal habitat use, and patterning provide valuable insight into how aquaria can be designed to
1. An Island Before Aridity To imagine Cyprus in antiquity requires setting aside the modern image of a dry island shaped by seasonal torrents, empty riverbeds, and fragmented wetlands. In earlier climatic phases, Cyprus was a more humid and hydrologically coherent landscape. Rainfall was more reliable, groundwater tables higher, and
In the Hidden Waters of Steung Treng In the remote wetlands of the Steung Treng province, in northeastern Cambodia, the Tonle Srepok River, a tributary of the mighty Mekong that originates in the central mountains of Vietnam, meanders through riparian forests and rural villages. There, in its calmer and shadier
This care guide is designed to assist you in providing the most optimum care for micro dragon gobies of the genus Schismatogobius. Before you get your gobies, please consider that all micro dragon gobies are wild caught, they have not been bred in captivity. Therefore, do your best to research
This care guide is designed to assist you in providing the most optimum care for most types of neon gobies of the genus Stiphodon that are commonly available in the ornamental fish trade.
Before you get your gobies, please consider that all neon gobies are wild caught, they have
For many years, the classification of the freshwater bullhead has been a topic of much confusion. So what species do we have in Britain, and how did they get here? Growing up along the river Avon, before I’d ever considered fishing with rod and line, as all young children should,
The Licorice Gouramies The genus Parosphromenus sits discreetly within the taxonomic subfamily of the Macropodusinae, often overshadowed by the popularity of the Betta, Macropodus, and even the Trichopsis. Still, these little bursts of colour and iridescence truly are the gold dust of the Gouramis, somewhat like Bettas, but better! Parosphromenus
Bengkayang, a region in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, hosts freshwater habitats that remain exceptionally well preserved, and in the fast-flowing upper stretches of these rivers, a wonderful family of highly adapted fish species can be found. Much like lichens can be a biological indicator of air quality, or earthworms an indicator
I’m Aiman Azmi, a student born and raised in Peninsular Malaysia. I have been observing and collecting fish around me since I was a kid, I’d eagerly follow my father, a biology professor, on any fish collecting trips he would go on and have been fascinated by freshwater ecosystems ever
Notropis petersoni, known as the coastal shiner, is endemic to the south-eastern United States where it ranges from North Carolina, through coastal South Carolina and Georgia, throughout Florida, and west through Alabama to Jordan River in Mississippi (Image 1). It can be found in in many different environments including lakes
Hill stream habitats in Hong Kong are home to some of the most endearing and enigmatic fishes on Earth. These oxygen-rich, cool mountain streams or often, torrential rivers, provide crucial habitat, not only for exclusively freshwater dwelling species, but also form important migratory routes and nurseries for anadromous, amphidromous and
Pseudocrenilabrus philander is arguably one of the most underrated fish species found in the aquarium hobby, albeit rarely. In nature, it is known from a wide range of habitats, including streams, lakes, and ponds and some populations are even known to exist in slightly brackish waters¹. The species is found
Due to work and college commitments , I had almost no free time to do anything other than rest. With the COVID-19 situation happening globally, Brunei was also affected, borders were closed and we couldn’t travel internationally, thus I decided back to go to the jungle to release some stress.
Teleocichla centisquama was described as a new species from the region of Altamira along the Rio Xingu in 2002 by scientists, Ivan Sazima and Jansen Zuanon. The following article includes excerpts from the species description and outlines a little about the habitat, plights and behaviour of this endearing, but highly
