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Conservation
Chris Englezou

The history of Salaria fluviatilis in Cyprus

Roland L. N. Michell was a British National who lived on the island of Cyprus periodically in the early 1900’s, he was not an ichthyologist nor was he a naturalist, his interest was mainly in ethnography but yet he must have been somewhat enamoured with the wildlife of Cyprus because

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News
C.E. Fish Essentials

UK aquarist breeds Golden Arowana!

Another success for C.E. nike chaussure Fish Essentials customer Gregory Day, who has become the first UK hobbyist to breed the Asian Arowana! There is no more suitable day for a dragon to be born than Halloween (well, other than January 23rd 2012, year of the dragon), but anyway, I

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Discus Fish
Chris Englezou

Finding the Rio Xingú Golden Discus

  Brian Middleton was his name, the first man to breed the elusive and incredible Xingu River Discus fish. I tried for years to find him, but he had literally disappeared from the aquarium hobby sometime in the late 1990’s or soon thereafter and seemed unreachable. All I had was

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