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Heiko Bleher

Heiko’s Meruvambayi River Biotope

Meruvambayi River – Western Ghats, India Biotope from the Meruvambayi River, Western Ghats, Kerala, India Habitat: This biotope is very beautiful and still not as much polluted and destroyed as many other aquatic habitats in this part of India. It has clear water with a slight flow and in some

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Marcelo Fernandez

Fishing for Heckel Discus in the Rio Demini

In this article my intention is to give some insight into the world of the Heckel Discus (Symphysodon discus) before they arrive to our aquariums. This prior world is less well known but holds all of the joy and satisfaction as keeping the fish themselves. I will tell you only

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Biotope
Ivan Mikolji

The Fish Guys Expedition | Part 2

Expedition 2 takes you to the Lost World, ffxiv gil George Fear and I explore the border of Venezuela and Guyana finding some really special fish species and look at their biotopes and behaviour in their natural environments.

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Ivan Mikolji

The Fish Guys Expedition | Part 1

George Fear and I head into the Northern Amazon to document more beautiful, nike air max pas cher rare and hard to find tropical fish species in their natural biotopes.

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Chris Englezou

Fish collecting along the Rio Jandiatuba, Brasil.

The moment the reflection of the morning sun touches the surface of the river you understand why they call it white water; the milky reflection of the silt-laden flow makes you wonder how any aquatic creature navigates a daily existence here. Immediately I understand the necessity of the long whiskers

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Marcelo Fernandez

The Route of the Cardinal Tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi)

The route of the Cardinal Tetra One of the aquarium fish with more pages held in the books of hobbyists than Discus and Angelfish combined is the Cardinal tetra. More precisely, Paracheirodon axelrodi. These characids we could consider as the most popular tetras in the ornamental fish hobby, their distinctive

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Antonio Silva

Searching for Discus in Peru & Colombia

The discus was a high body Red-Spotted Green. It looked like the high body form commonly reared by Asian breeders. This specimen, however, was unique. It was caught in the Nanay River in Peru. I have seen wild caught Snakeskins, Pigeon Bloods and solid Blue Discus. These examples suggest that

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